What did you use to study MICRO?

[34140]

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So what did you use to ace micro on step 1?

I'm leaning towards micro made ridiculously simple....b/c i liked it for class.
( i have an older version, should i upgrade?)

Any other suggestions?

kthxbye

 

[Terpskins99]

So what did you use to ace micro on step 1?

I'm leaning towards micro made ridiculously simple....b/c i liked it for class.
( i have an older version, should i upgrade?)

Any other suggestions?

kthxbye

FA, MMRS and Rosenthal microbiology cards.

(Also wrote a consolidated DOC/alternate-DOC list based on MMRS, Lange and RR Micro books. This helped me more for COMLEX than USMLE.)

 

[viostorm]

So what did you use to ace micro on step 1?

I'm leaning towards micro made ridiculously simple....b/c i liked it for class.
( i have an older version, should i upgrade?)

Any other suggestions?

kthxbye

MMRS did NOT reflect what was on USMLE. It is a great book, but 95%-100% was in FA.

I think mechanism of virulence factors are highly represented.

 

[34140]

thanks you guys!

I'm not planning on reading the MMRS religiously, but rather reading it once making good notes...i hope that will work

 

[Pinkertinkle]

I used Kaplan Micro + BRS note cards.

 

[DreamRavyn]

I have to give a shout-out to RapidReview Micro/Immuno book. It is awesome - I used it and found it to have everything I need, and be shorter than MMRS, AND have immunology in there, too (including all of those pesky interleukins). If you hate reading paragraphs, RR is the way to go.

 

[Ashers]

I read MMRS, but I didn't like it. I prefered Lange Micro and Immuno. Especially the summary of bugs, etc at the back of the book, and the clinical pearls in each chapter.

 

[OddNath]

If you learned micro pretty well in class, you could probably get away with just reading your weak areas in CMMRS. For me, though, I totally blew off micro in school (bad idea..) so I spent a few days reading CMMRS and it was a lifesaver. Also did FA.