Hi! Does anyone have any tips on how to best approach pharmacology for the USMLE step 1? I'm pretty weak in the area and would appreciate any advice on what books to use/kaplan/BRS etc? THANKS!!
+1 to thisRead all the FA sections. Do all the Pretest Pharmacology (current edition) questions. Done.
You will re-enforce this with Qbank questions (Rx, KaplanQbook, Uworld)
These are other pharm question sources I have used and dont recommend:
BRS
Rapid Review
Lippincotts Illustrated Q&A
Katzung Q&A
They all suck except pretest.
Is picmonic good?+1 to this
instead of pre-test [used it in ms2 so i remembered most questions], I used picmonic instead [not question based but reinforced what I learned]
+1 to this
instead of pre-test [used it in ms2 so i remembered most questions], I used picmonic instead [not question based but reinforced what I learned]
Really pretest? Never read anybody recommend pretest for pharma but i will def try it now! And yes picmonic is awesome for drugs.Read all the FA sections. Do all the Pretest Pharmacology (current edition) questions. Done.
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They all suck except pretest.
Is picmonic good?
Wondering this as well.
Also, since it's a subscription (and an expensive one at that), when would you guys recommend purchasing it? I'm in M1 so I don't have much use for it until next year.
Really pretest? Never read anybody recommend pretest for pharma but i will def try it now! And yes picmonic is awesome for drugs.
Thanks for letting us all know. I am almost done with pretest physiology and i have to agree with you , the explanations are really helpful in it, for example in GIT questions concerning vagotomy . I was about to go through pretest micro as well but your review isn't encouraging.Don't get me wrong, I have owned a lot of pretests, and I don't like very many of them.
The new have long question stems for no reason to waste your time, didn't like pretest anatomy, and pretest biochem/genetics was like wtf....
Pretest phsyiology 2001 (green) edition is one of my favorite actually though, cause it hammers home very important aspects over and over again, and each question is 1-2 sentences long.
Pretest micro was worthless.
I almost had given up on pre-tests, but I'd have to say by far Pretest pharm actually did something right, its the best of the series im sure.
Thanks for letting us all know. I am almost done with pretest physiology and i have to agree with you , the explanations are really helpful in it, for example in GIT questions concerning vagotomy . I was about to go through pretest micro as well but your review isn't encouraging.
Thank you! Any suggestions for anatomy questions? i suck at it. I plan on going through clinical vigg with kaplan notes. You think that's enough?Dude if you have time for micro-questions out side of q banks you need:
Lippincott's Q & A Microbiology & Immunology (500 questions) (Medium difficulty, good quality question)
or
Review of Medical Microbiology, 1e Patrick R. Murray, Ken Rosenthal (550 questions; very good, but hard)
Even with the Illustrated series, I can't recommend very much, Biochemistry and Pharmocology were absolutely terrible.
No series gets it all right, so you got to mix and match I guess.