Neurology: how to approach

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My knowledge base is very weak in Neuro. I've gone through the Pathoma chapter, and the corresponding pathoma material in FA makes sense to me. But for EVERYTHING else in the FA Neuro chapter, I'm confused big time. After searching the forum, I saw HY highly recommend. I tried reading HY Neuroanatomy (Dr. Fix), and it didn't make any sense to me (again, I'm very weak in this area). I saw that Dr. Fix has a BRS Neuroanatomy book, but it is 400+ pages and wouldn't cover a lot of the non-neuroanatomy stuff in the FA Neuro chapter.

Any suggestions? DIT? Kaplan? some other book?
Thanks.

 

[MudPhud20XX]

Hey I felt the same. Honestly, I feel the same as I speak now.

I passed my neuroanatomy (haven't started patho yet), but I felt I knew nothing for the board.

I basically used Kaplan nuero vidoe/lecture notes and of course folks here at SDN helped me a lot! I asked a lot quesitons here and sometimes were criticized for asking too many easy questions that can be easily looked up on the internet. (But asking questions and hearing from these smart people, you do learn!) I had to do what I had to do!

I don't think there is any easy way to get it done.

I used Kaplan video/lectures and I feel like this is the most simplest and yet a way to really LEARN the subject. It's at the back of the anatomy book. It's about 1/3 of the anatomy book. The lecture notes are nicely done and the guy who teaches is a bit dry, but he does a decent job. Also, I did all the online quizzes which were very helpful too. Also, the notes incorporate lot of neuro patho, so this should help you.

I have DIT and FA but they ain't gonna make you learn. At least that's the way I feel. Good luck!

PS - It took me a month to go over Kaplan neuro using my spare time, I am still not completely confident about it, but I feel much better! Now I am trying to learn immunology, again the course I passed in my class but we all now that doesn't mean too much! Good luck!

 

[sanj238]

My knowledge base is very weak in Neuro. I've gone through the Pathoma chapter, and the corresponding pathoma material in FA makes sense to me. But for EVERYTHING else in the FA Neuro chapter, I'm confused big time. After searching the forum, I saw HY highly recommend. I tried reading HY Neuroanatomy (Dr. Fix), and it didn't make any sense to me (again, I'm very weak in this area). I saw that Dr. Fix has a BRS Neuroanatomy book, but it is 400+ pages and wouldn't cover a lot of the non-neuroanatomy stuff in the FA Neuro chapter.

Any suggestions? DIT? Kaplan? some other book?
Thanks.

yeah basically all my knowledge comes from kaplan neuro. I was a neuro major at a very good neuro program and even then I never felt adequate about medical neuro because we only covered research adn theory- cognition, comp neuro etc. Kaplan neuro is the best. hands down it coeers material in depth in a very concise and intelligent manner. For hte neuro path the neuro section of kaplan path is also money. I thought it was really really good. if you want more you can study the brs neuro after kaplan an dadd to it.

frankly i thought hy neuro was inadequate - brs neuro covers everything in there but you really really need to learn kaplan first as it is foundational.
after that if you want to add to it go to FC and learn all the extra antomy etc. stuff in there.

For neuro I recommend- kaplan neuro, kaplan path, FC neuro anatom/path utah images for neuro path, drexel images for neuroanatomy (very high yield), brs neuro, and finally FA in that order.

You can get the kaplan books all of them for about 200 from ebay etc.

 

[sanj238]

yeah basically all my knowledge comes from kaplan neuro. I was a neuro major at a very good neuro program and even then I never felt adequate about medical neuro because we only covered research adn theory- cognition, comp neuro etc. Kaplan neuro is the best. hands down it coeers material in depth in a very concise and intelligent manner. For hte neuro path the neuro section of kaplan path is also money. I thought it was really really good. if you want more you can study the brs neuro after kaplan an dadd to it.

frankly i thought hy neuro was inadequate - brs neuro covers everything in there but you really really need to learn kaplan first as it is foundational.
after that if you want to add to it go to FC and learn all the extra antomy etc. stuff in there.

For neuro I recommend- kaplan neuro, kaplan path, FC neuro anatom/path utah images for neuro path, drexel images for neuroanatomy (very high yield), brs neuro, and finally FA in that order.

You can get the kaplan books all of them for about 200 from ebay etc.

if you are short on time then cut out the above stuff. if you have at least 5- 6 months then do kaplan/FC/FA at the very least. if you are even shorter on time then do FA/pathoma for neuro.

 

[notbobtrustme]

honestly, FA + Pathoma + HY Neuro is all you need for neuroanatomy.

I all but failed neuro last year (had to take the retake exam and barely passed that lol) and I've been rocking Uworld + Rx's neuro sections. Basically, what I think happens is that the neuro folk go into too much detail and literally none of it is important for the boards. We learned each gyri, function and connections, and none of it has come up in over 600 questions of Rx + Uworld. It's all really straight forward.

 

[BlueArc]

Do Najeeb along with HY neuro and FA. That is all you need.

 

[bulldogmed]

Do Najeeb along with HY neuro and FA. That is all you need.

+1 on Dr. Najeeb. He has ~30 lectures on neuro. Definitely watch them if you have the time. It might take 2-3 days solid, but it would be worth it if you don't have a solid base.