What are the best review books to accompany the actual classes?

[BlueMercury]

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I am currently taking Gross Anatomy, Histo, and Embryo. I want to get a review book to accompany me and I don't know which are best. BRS, High-Yield, Rapid-Review, First Aid and I think there a few more. Any recommendations would be appreciated.

Embryo: Think I'm going HY, seems to be a concensus that this is the best.

Anatomy: Not sure here. I hear that BRS is good but others claim it has way too much info. I'm debating between this and RR. Might get both.

Histo: No idea here.

 

[JStub]

BRS was definately not too much for anatomy and I loved it. For embryo and histo, I just used the class powerpoints and handouts and that was more than I can handle on those two dry subjects.

 

[thethirdheat]

Does anybody think using USMLE World Qbank to do questions as practice during first year will be helpful for doing well on exams?

 

[schussboarder]

From a few of the people in my class that I have spoken to it seems that most people are accompanying the lecture material from those classes (minus embryo- that is second semester for us) with BRS. For anatomy, many people got the ackland anatomy DVD's on top of the BRS. People told me to stay away from the high yield books until I start studying for the boards becuase they are more broad and don't cover the details that we need for the actual classes during the M1 and M2 year classes.

 

[Flushot]

I'd read some reviews on BRS. I believe Physio and Patho are among the best for review and questions, but for Anatomy and maybe Biochem you're better off looking elsewhere.

 

[BlueMercury]

Ended up getting BRS for all 3. Only really studied for the anatomy one so far which is good, pretty much everything you need to know. Need a good atlas though because the drawings are far from adequate.

 

[Kgecko]

There are free sources for questions- I wouldn't pay for practice questions. http://anatomy.med.umich.edu/ is a good one. BRS has good questions in the back of every chapter as well.