Physio review questions (AP's, cardio, etc)

[LFSdriver]

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Are there any good books or online resources to practice membrane/equilibrium potential, skeletal/cardiac action potentials, and cardiac physiology?

Other than Qbank or UWorld. I don't want to purchase either yet since I'm a long way off from the exam, but I want to do some questions in these areas to make sure I've nailed the concepts so I won't be struggling when path and pharm roll around.

I've picked up QBook and cherry picked the questions I wanted to do, but there weren't too many of the above types.



Thanks!

 

[tideleonheart]

Absolutely!

Costanzo wrote a great book called BRS Physiology: Cases and Questions.
The book has a bunch of... well... cases and questions (who woulda thought?). All the questions have thorough explanations.
http://www.amazon.com/Physiology-Cases-Problems-Board-Review/dp/0781788714

Also, her plain old BRS Physiology has about 40 questions at the end of each section (cardio, pulm, etc). That helps a bit, but doesn't have the volume of questions that the Cases and Questions book has.

 

[LFSdriver]

Absolutely!

Costanzo wrote a great book called BRS Physiology: Cases and Questions.
The book has a bunch of... well... cases and questions (who woulda thought?). All the questions have thorough explanations.
http://www.amazon.com/Physiology-Cases-Problems-Board-Review/dp/0781788714

Also, her plain old BRS Physiology has about 40 questions at the end of each section (cardio, pulm, etc). That helps a bit, but doesn't have the volume of questions that the Cases and Questions book has.

😱 thanks! Should keep me busy 🙂

 

[OveractiveBrain]

BRS questions will not challenge you. You will do them, feel good about yourself, then get things MUCH harder on your shelf and probably on your course material.

I am not familiar with the case book, but PreTest Physio does a good job delivering hard (often frustratingly so) physio questions. It will be useful to hammer out 500 questions with decent explanations. I found PreTest to be particularly useful for prepping for the Shelf, since the physio shelf is probably the hardest shelf you will take, next to Medicine in your 3rd year

 

[LFSdriver]

BRS questions will not challenge you. You will do them, feel good about yourself, then get things MUCH harder on your shelf and probably on your course material.

I am not familiar with the case book, but PreTest Physio does a good job delivering hard (often frustratingly so) physio questions. It will be useful to hammer out 500 questions with decent explanations. I found PreTest to be particularly useful for prepping for the Shelf, since the physio shelf is probably the hardest shelf you will take, next to Medicine in your 3rd year

Thanks 🙂

I started looking over cardiac APs for ventricular muscle and had a some what hard time with it, I really should have looked at it the same night of the lecture.

I think I have a grasp on it, but the differences between iK1 and iK receptors still confuses me a bit. Also not fully sure I get the sharp drop off between phase 2 and 3. (in phase 2 L-type Ca channels are open, prolonging phase 2. But since these are long acting channels and close slower, why the steep drop off between phase 2 and 3? The voltage gated channels are only starting to open in phase 3, and they too are slow to open)

I think I understand why Ca and K are the most important ions in the ventricular muscle AP- is it because phase 2 and 3 are the most critical parts of the AP? Because of the huge concentration differences inside and outside of the cell?