USMLE Step 1 Secrets

[thundercat77]

Has anyone used this book "USMLE Step 1 Secrets"? If so, can I would appreciate any comments regarding this resource.

Thanks.

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[viper]

Used it during medical school. Great quick review after you are done studying. Not much more useful than that and did not use it for boards studying. But it is a good book.

Take care,

 

[elperro]

I read it occasionally during the second year and found it helpful in understanding concepts. Then, I spent about a week, all day, going through the whole book before boards (I took five weeks to study overall). If you go through the book the way the authors suggest in the preface, it can be of value to you. They suggest reading the question and then seriously thinking through the science to come to an answer. Then read the answer. I got some right, and many right to a small degree, and missed lot of interesting correlations that I never learned in class. It helped me really understand the concepts behind the facts I memorized in First Aid. It takes a lot of time to do it this way, but I feel like it helped my score a lot. If you just read the book through like a novel, you won't retain much of it. I would still suggest knowing First Aid WELL before moving on to other books.

 

[quideam]

I'm using it now for my MS2 neurology/neuroscience course. It's certainly not comprehensive, but it's great to look over the questions and cases as we cover relevant material. Helps to bring together key concepts, and the cases are very, very good. Don't know how it will be for the boards (or how extensively i'm going to use it), but since my school's Pathology class is systems-based, doing the questions from this book along with BRS Pathology and Pathophys for Boards & Wards (plus of course Robbins book/review q's) sounds pretty solid to me.

All said and done - it shouldn't be a primary source, or even a *main* complementary book, but it's nice if you have a little extra time to go through some concepts and cases.

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[p53]

Has anyone used this book "USMLE Step 1 Secrets"? If so, can I would appreciate any comments regarding this resource.

Thanks.

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