Studying Behaviorial Science

[streetdoc]

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i'm trying to get thru BRS BS but this stuff is boring. i flipped thru HY and it was the same author and same stuff, no questions. anyone know of SOMETHING that could make me want to read about this stuff? it's just chart after chart after random fact...
Is BRS a must or would First Aid do it?
Stinger, did you think the behavior questions were easy or too few on your exam to warrent your time? your source?
thanks,
streetdoc
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[NIQ]

BRS is a minimum for BS. I didn't find First Aid to be all that helpful and at least BRS will cover all the random theories, but the real life scenario q's are still tough :/

 

[Stinger86]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
i'm trying to get thru BRS BS but this stuff is boring. i flipped thru HY and it was the same author and same stuff, no questions. anyone know of SOMETHING that could make me want to read about this stuff? it's just chart after chart after random fact...
Is BRS a must or would First Aid do it?
Stinger, did you think the behavior questions were easy or too few on your exam to warrent your time? your source?
thanks,
streetdoc
back to BRS

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Sorry bud, but BRS BS is the best source out there for Behavioral (or HY BS if you don't like the questions). If it makes you feel any better, Step 1 BS questions usually aren't that common; in other words, I've yet to see anyone on these forums or at my school scream about there being a ridiculous number of BS questions on their exam.

If you absolutely can't stand the subject, then I suppose you could just study the chapters that are the highest yield. I would recommend personality disorders, defense mechanisms, ethics/law/doctor-patient interactions, and major psychiatric diagnoses, including narcolepsy and some of the more common sleep disorders. Anyone else agree/disagree with this list?

 

[streetdoc]

thanks, at least i know it is a necessary evil now....

 

[Shah_Patel_PT]

Sorry bud, but BRS BS is the best source out there for Behavioral (or HY BS if you don't like the questions). If it makes you feel any better, Step 1 BS questions usually aren't that common; in other words, I've yet to see anyone on these forums or at my school scream about there being a ridiculous number of BS questions on their exam.

If you absolutely can't stand the subject, then I suppose you could just study the chapters that are the highest yield. I would recommend personality disorders, defense mechanisms, ethics/law/doctor-patient interactions, and major psychiatric diagnoses, including narcolepsy and some of the more common sleep disorders. Anyone else agree/disagree with this list?

Or you can take Kaplan Live lecture and use those notes. The author of the BRS behavioral science teaches the course and has also contributed to the live lecture notes.

 

[omarsaleh66]

Got my beh science shelf. 520/84. A&L was low yield. BRS beh science would have been good. I only had time to do that comp test at the end. Some of the things that killed me were "what do u say to the patient questions" so i would hit that chapter up. and i recall learning from webprep that if u see coin or round lesions on a kid's body, that's not child abuse but it's called coining, a cultural form of healing. Also know Baby Doe's law where a baby is born 22 weeks premature, u have to do ur best to save it (whereeas in reality, the parents may want to let it die)

gluck and later

 

[pharmer]

I got my Beh science score back today but it was only reported as a number no percentile. It was 590 so if anyone know's how to convert that to a percentile that would be nice to know (I'm guessing 500 is the mean like it is for the other shelfs). I never went to a single lecture or opened a book for this class so I'm hoping the USMLE beh Science questions will be on par w/ the level of difficulty as the shelf questions.