Neuro NBME

[Dr. Rosenrose]

Ok, I know it has been asked a millon times but what is the best way to study for this Beyatch? BRS? Young and Young? High Yield???????????? I have just a couple days to study. Any advice is good. (except for the " its too late dont bother" responses)

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[Jsscales05]

Hmmmm well. . . a majority of people at my school are using High Yield. Both BRS and the High Yield are written by Fix so you can either get 400 pages of neuro fun (BRS) or a quick distilled version with the High Yield. The only advantage to BRS is the questions.

 

[alliemac]

Don't waste your time with High Yield...it is entirely too simplified.

 

[chameleonknight]

Our Neuro prof said he expects a class average of 15-20 % WTF? does that sound right? He also said that most of the test was pharmacology that we haven't had yet.

Sometimes I wonder about my school....

 

[Discobolus]

Not unless they've changed the test significantly. My class scored above the national average on it last year, and my school certainly didn't teach us any pharmacology

Our Neuro prof said he expects a class average of 15-20 % WTF? does that sound right? He also said that most of the test was pharmacology that we haven't had yet.

Sometimes I wonder about my school....

 

[Dr. Rosenrose]

My school sucks at prep for these things. Usually after the curve if you were able to get your name right you get a 75 or so. Why dont they just use the brs as a guide. Oh well, if I am walking funny tomorrow it is because I got ass raped thrice in one week.

 

[bigfrank]

P.S. The questions in BRS Neuro are absolute crap.

 

[lilmo]

so brs neuro sucks? and high yield is too simplified? what does leave? i've been using waxman as a textbook for the class the past 6 weeks. (i still haven't figured out why they crammed a class as complicated as neuro into the last 6 weeks of first year.)

but anyways, i was just planning on going in next tuesday and winging the shelf. unless anyone has a better suggestion............

 

[felipe5]

yeah, wingin' it sounds like my plan too.......does First Aid have a section about Neuro? Maybe I could just steal my gf's waxman when she's not looking....i gotta sabatage her somehow

 

[SJBX]

Is the neuro book in the Ridiciously Simple Series useful if you are taking neuro now?

yeah, wingin' it sounds like my plan too.......does First Aid have a section about Neuro? Maybe I could just steal my gf's waxman when she's not looking....i gotta sabatage her somehow

 

[jwin]

i think i posted the same thing in another thread 2 days ago but oh well...hy yield neuro is perfectly sufficient for the exam. i read the book cover to cover 2X and i got a raw 99. now i must admit that my school does a good job teaching neuro, but i did not even open our notes when studying. you need to know your spinal cord, brainstem, and brain proper lesions very well. we focus a lot on this at our school which is why our class did so well. you also need to know the vasculature of the different regions of the brain in so far as it will produce functional deficits. for example, if you lesion the basilar artery in the pons, what deficits will you produce. there are a significant number of questions where you have to localize the lesion from symptoms given.

addressing previous posts:
1) there is no pharmacology.
2) brs neuro and hy are basically the same book. they are written by the same guy, hy just reads quicker in my opinion, there are questions in brs, but other than the comprehensive test at the end, i have heard the questions are crap
3) hy may be pretty simplified, but it is better than anything else out there

 

[theringworm]

i think i posted the same thing in another thread 2 days ago but oh well...hy yield neuro is perfectly sufficient for the exam. i read the book cover to cover 2X and i got a raw 99. now i must admit that my school does a good job teaching neuro, but i did not even open our notes when studying. you need to know your spinal cord, brainstem, and brain proper lesions very well. we focus a lot on this at our school which is why our class did so well. you also need to know the vasculature of the different regions of the brain in so far as it will produce functional deficits. for example, if you lesion the basilar artery in the pons, what deficits will you produce. there are a significant number of questions where you have to localize the lesion from symptoms given.

addressing previous posts:
1) there is no pharmacology.
2) brs neuro and hy are basically the same book. they are written by the same guy, hy just reads quicker in my opinion, there are questions in brs, but other than the comprehensive test at the end, i have heard the questions are crap
3) hy may be pretty simplified, but it is better than anything else out there

I totally agree with the above statements. I just took the test Wednesday. It is by far the easiest NBME I have taken. Our school does a great job preparing you for it and we always score way above the national average. Know blood supply and lesions. This in my opinion is the bulk of the test. High yield is a great refresher in my opinion. I would reference First Aids' anatomy section to brush up on the brachial plexus, and dermatomes. In addition to the basic Neuro subject (125 questions) there are two other sections, parm and something else but we did not take them. If you school does a descent job of teaching this class you should do extremely well.

 

[DigDog]

Check out the Lange Road Map by White... I hear it has really good q&a
White writes a Neuro and a gross Road Map

 

[thackl]

I totally agree with the above statements. I just took the test Wednesday. It is by far the easiest NBME I have taken. Our school does a great job preparing you for it and we always score way above the national average. Know blood supply and lesions. This in my opinion is the bulk of the test. High yield is a great refresher in my opinion. I would reference First Aids' anatomy section to brush up on the brachial plexus, and dermatomes. In addition to the basic Neuro subject (125 questions) there are two other sections, parm and something else but we did not take them. If you school does a descent job of teaching this class you should do extremely well.

I agree with the High Yield. I spent the majority of my time in PreTest and it was a waste (to nit picky). I glossed over high yield and it would have been the better book to spend my time in, especially the clinical stuff I hadn't learned in class. As for it being the easiest so far....... compared to Phys it was easy, but I thought anatomy and histo were a lot easier.

FYI, various CN3 lesions and MB blood supply were covered multiple times. Seems like there was another easy topic covered 3 or 4 times..... can't remember 🙁

 

[KitesurfDaEarth]

I think Haines atlas has some good questions at the back, it grills you on the anatomy and blood supply pretty well. High yield is pretty good and covers everything esp. good if your back is against the wall. I'm pretty concerned about this course since our school doesn't do the best job in teaching it....well i guess i would feel more confident if i actually went to class...

 

[felipe5]

I think Haines atlas has some good questions at the back, it grills you on the anatomy and blood supply pretty well. High yield is pretty good and covers everything esp. good if your back is against the wall. I'm pretty concerned about this course since our school doesn't do the best job in teaching it....well i guess i would feel more confident if i actually went to class...

yo kitesurf....did you snag the last only copy of HY at B&N???? I know it was you

 

[sharkhy]

sup guys

I'm just studying by sister's old Step1 Kaplan books. It's a quick read, but I really don't have the motivation to do any more than that...

We just finished NEUS so I'm not so worked up about it. Anatomy, on the other hand.....

 

[thackl]

I think Haines atlas has some good questions at the back, it grills you on the anatomy and blood supply pretty well. High yield is pretty good and covers everything esp. good if your back is against the wall

I completely forgot about those Q's 😡 If I had to do it again...... Haine's Q's and High Yield. That's it.