Step I pharm and BSS

[AllUpOnYoMama]

Pharm is my weakest subject. Whats a good review book for the step. I have the kaplan pharm book. Anyone have any experience with this book? Also, anyone use Board simulated Series? I heard the questions are not representative of the current USMLE format, but they truly hit the core of what you need to know to do well. Thanks

 

[Saladin MD]

Pharm was one of my weakest subjects going in. I turned into a strength by making flash cards of FA and spending a few days going through them. By the time I was done, Pharm was my best subject, perhaps because I was too lazy to make flash cards for the rest.

 

[pepotonoto]

Hah, I was just about to post a message inquiring about the Board Simulator Series (BSS) books because I'm planning on picking it up but had some doubts that I myself would like to know. *Edit : moving BSS to another topic, this will stick with your pharm question.*


Onto your first question though - I'm sure others will give some better advice for pharm - I heard you can't go wrong with learning pharm from Kaplan - many have used this in conjunction with first aid.


First Aid is what most use, but I am assuming that most are sticking with FA because their pharm was relatively fresh from school and there's not much "trickery" involved in pharma questions - provided you know the mode of action/side effects / contraindications, doing usmleworld/qbank questions - you should be straight.... there's also video lectures by kaplan too - if you're really in the deep. To add, Katzung and Lippincott's pharm but they're pretty big - just like the kaplan pharm....

For some making flash cards help. You can run through those whenever you have some idle time.

 

[AllUpOnYoMama]

I guess ill do flash cards from first aid. thanks