yes, but in most people's opinion absolutely useless until you have had ( or are in the thick of) the related coursework. IMHO it's not worth owning until some time in the second year of med school. There is no value in trying to get a head start in med school. It's the equivalent of getting to a ballgame two days early. Sure the seats are already there, but you don't get any value out of being there early -- the game starts at the same time and the person who shows up right on time gets the same thing out of it. A big part of the first year of med school is learning how to learn. You will be learning what your professors feel is important, you will learn how to best memorize large volumes of information, you will learn what kind of info is the Forrest and what's the trees. You really can't accomplish this on your own. You might come away with a few factoids, but the yield is so poor that anyone who has been down this road will tell you not to waste your time. It's the reason you will be in a class where some humanities major who took the minimum pretax is going to be in the top 5% of your class, while there will be a biochem major in the bottom 5%, guaranteed. Why? Because med school is a different game, because there is ample time to learn stuff when it starts, and because most of what you do before med school is going to count for nil.
Now everyone on SDN knows you are going to do what you want and study anyway, and come back to SDN and try in vain to tell the next generation of newbies that pre-studying is pointless. This is the cycle of life on SDN. But for the sake of honesty, we are telling you (OP) to leave FA on the shelf until a few months before STEP 1.
