Step 1 Advice Needed PLEASE!

[Luwi25]

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Hi guys:

Three simple questions:

1) Is First Aid enough for Embryo or should I waste a day reading high yield Embryo (I'm a slow reader) =)

2) Biochem...is high yield biochem and FA good enough for prep.

3) PHARM: FA enough or I alos have Lippincott pharm cards but they seem a bit too detailed.

I have 5 weeks of study left.

Thanks in advance!!! 😉

 

[JulianCrane]

Hi guys:

Three simple questions:

1) Is First Aid enough for Embryo or should I waste a day reading high yield Embryo (I'm a slow reader) =)

2) Biochem...is high yield biochem and FA good enough for prep.

3) PHARM: FA enough or I alos have Lippincott pharm cards but they seem a bit too detailed.

I have 5 weeks of study left.

Thanks in advance!!! 😉

HY Biochem was one of the best books that I used during my boards studying. Definitely, you should use it in coordination with FA. That books works best if you have a working knowledge of biochem. As for embryo, FA is prolly enough, but HY Embryo is a very well written text and I found it useful for gaps in information missing in FA. Let's see, I read Lippincott for Pharm, but the questions I got on Pharm were sometimes out there and I was like, "Whaaa?" . Needless to say, one question I got on pharm came directly from FA and I did not memorize that fact. Grrr. . . Good luck.

 

[Bones2008]

1) I agree that HY embryo was excellent. I got a few questions right on my exam that I might have otherwise missed because I read it.

2) The biochem in FA is enough in terms of raw facts. What FA lacks is any meaningful effort to tie the different pathways, etc. together (that giant flow chart is accurate but confusing and without any explanation). I found rapid review biochem to be great for tieing things together (especially chapter 8, as I recall). many people like HY biochem for this as well.

3) about halfway through my month of studying I got so pissed at the pharm in FA I wanted to burn it. then someone showed me their BRS pharm cards. they are, simply put, a godsend. using them will teach you over 90% of what you'll need to know for the boards, as long as you learn them well (i.e. the explanations on the back of the cards, too). using this approach requires that you turn off that instinct to learn everything, cuz guess what: FA has WAY too much pharm. way way way too much. I only used my BRS cards for the few weeks before my test and did very well on pharm on the real thing.

best of luck.

 

[FLmed08]

These were my 3 least favorite subjects.

Biochem: I used FA & looked up stuff in Lippincott as needed. I agree that FA has the facts you need but it's up to you to tie them all together. There was less biochem than I expected on my test.

Embryo: I read FA the day before the test once. I only had maybe 3 embryo questions on my test. I think I knew 2 of them from FA & reading HY would not have been worth it to get the 3rd Q right.

Pharm: FA; looked up a few things in Lippincott. There was less pharm on my test than I expected. I think FA is plenty.