Why is "Step Up to Medicine" reviewed by mostly medical students at "lower-tier" schools?

[SterlingMaloryArcher]

Completely unimportant, just-because-I-was-wondering type of question. I was simply surprised, I was expecting contributors from Harvard, Yale, Vanderbilt, etc, but nope. It's a lot of people from places like Lake Erie, Edward Via. Not saying that's bad I'm sure they're brilliant people. Like I said I was just surprised, there may not even be a real answer.

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[sliceofbread136]

They have more important things to do, you'll have to make do with low-tier no name trash.

 

[67552931811]

They have more important things to do, you'll have to make do with low-tier no name trash.

Yeah man, trash. I'm just a future physician composed of waste. : (

 

[Psai]

Don't know but I did find that book unreadable

 

[bashwell]

Don't know but I did find that book unreadable

Me too.

 

[masaraksh]

and Master the Boards is written by nursing and naturopaths.... what has the world come to. [sarcasm]

 

[Raryn]

Don't know but I did find that book unreadable

I found it to be the second most valuable resource of all of third year. The only one I liked better was Step 2 Secrets.

 

[mcloaf]

Completely unimportant, just-because-I-was-wondering type of question. I was simply surprised, I was expecting contributors from Harvard, Yale, Vanderbilt, etc, but nope. It's a lot of people from places like Lake Erie, Edward Via. Not saying that's bad I'm sure they're brilliant people. Like I said I was just surprised, there may not even be a real answer.

Why are you reading Step Up to Medicine as a premed?

 

[Promethean]

Completely unimportant, just-because-I-was-wondering type of question. I was simply surprised, I was expecting contributors from Harvard, Yale, Vanderbilt, etc, but nope. It's a lot of people from places like Lake Erie, Edward Via. Not saying that's bad I'm sure they're brilliant people. Like I said I was just surprised, there may not even be a real answer.

Because name brand doesn't matter that much when it comes to mastering material. They aren't teaching the real/better medicine at Harvard, while the rest of us are just learning second rate medicine. The rest of it is that there are just a lot more docs from all the other schools. There are what, like 200 med schools in the country? Is it really surprising that all books aren't authored by people from just 5-10 schools?

Incidentally, if you really want to do the most effective pre-study, forget Harvard and Yale. You should focus more on works from Princeton. I have a whole series on DVD that delves into lots of rare diseases.

 

[OnePunchBiopsy]

The Ambulatory Medicine chapter is the entire family medicine shelf.

 

[SunsFun]

Why are you reading Step Up to Medicine as a premed?

He is just trying to build new good habits. The ones, you know, med students at "high" tier places have. Reading SUTM ain't one of them.


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[sliceofbread136]

Why are you reading Step Up to Medicine as a premed?

Who else but a premed reading step up to medicine would even ask this question

 

[SterlingMaloryArcher]

Why are you reading Step Up to Medicine as a premed?

Actually I was looking for a book that simply outlines core pathophysiology, but goes into more depth than my EMS textbook did. There is some irrelevant information because we can't do lab work or imaging but it has some great extra considerations too. I picked it up out of curiosity and it was actually exactly what I was looking for, so I bought it. Yes, the edition will probably change several times before I actually need it.

 

[PL198]

Why are you looking up the medical student reviewers of a book

 

[Entadus]

Why is a pre-med starting a thread in Allo

I was under the impression that this forum was for medical student related issues. This is clearly not one.

 

[Stagg737]

Completely unimportant, just-because-I-was-wondering type of question. I was simply surprised, I was expecting contributors from Harvard, Yale, Vanderbilt, etc, but nope. It's a lot of people from places like Lake Erie, Edward Via. Not saying that's bad I'm sure they're brilliant people. Like I said I was just surprised, there may not even be a real answer.

Everyone knows that everyone at the respectable med schools like Harvard or Yale already have memorized Step Up before they start med school and have finished studying Harrison's before they take Step 1. By the time they're in clinicals they're writing their own text books and publishing cutting edge research that us peons at low-tier schools could only hope to understand someday...

 

[AthleteDoc7]

The Ambulatory Medicine chapter is the entire family medicine shelf.

lol is this a thing a lot of people don't know about? students are always freaking over the family shelf

 

[Jabbed]

lol is this a thing a lot of people don't know about? students are always freaking over the family shelf

I felt that it covered more like ~60-70% of the FM shelf.

 

[Smurfette]

lol is this a thing a lot of people don't know about? students are always freaking over every shelf

FTFY.




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[Lucca]

Moving to PreAllo since OP is a PreMed.

 

[efle]

Moving to PreAllo since OP is a PreMed.

ew no don't bring this kind of thing here

 

[Lucca]

Ftfy