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If you are old school like me in that you need to study from a physical book and simply CANNOT study from a computer (i.e. The good thing about this book is the almost 1000 questions come straight from First Aid's online Qbank (UsmleRx) thus giving you the same advantage as practicing from their online question source (which also has really good reviews).For step 1, get a good book to study from (I would recommend Usmle Step 1 Secrets 2nd Edition by Brown & Brown - see my review here on Amazon - for a thorough, conceptual and integrated case based review). online Qbanks like UsmleWorld, Kaplan, etc which most people rave about but which turned out to be USELESS for me and my learning style), then I strongly recommend this Qbook. There is no doubt that online Qbanks like UsmleWorld are supposed to be really good - as per student/foreign doctor reviews - but if you have tried them and had a hard time learning from them, then may be they don't work well with your learning style). plus do this qbook (if you have time or need more questions to practice and learn from, then your next book can be Kaplan's Step 1 Qbook). And of course assess yourself with a couple of NBMEs to see if you are ready for the test.
This book, provides very little extra information outside of the First Aid for Step 1, although a few percentage of questions do an excellent job of integrating concepts from different clinical sciences and forcing you to apply what you learned from FA rather than just memorizing it. Before reading this review, it should be noted that I have not yet taken my examination, so I am speaking on how much information and knowledge I gain from each source, rather than its exam pay-out (which is obviously the most important).With that disclaimer, this book is a good way to reinforce some topics from the First Aid for Step 1, especially when the monotonous reading of that text becomes boring and your brain gets saturated. As other people have mentioned, and I will reiterate here, it is in no way a substitute for Kaplan QBank, USMLE world, etc. I am a huge believer, in that as medical students instead of diversifying our portfolio (which we don't have since all of our money went to medical school :)), we should be diversifying our methods of studying and to reinforce topics in FIRST AID, this would be the way to do it. However, from my understanding the information in First Aid is not enough to score well on your boards, although it may be sufficient to pass. and in my opinion primarily serves a reinforcement of topics and facts presented in First Aid. In addition, there are a few minor mistakes and some direct contradictions with other texts.Hope this helpful, good luck to everyone taking the Step 1.
Can help you with your prepration along with the regular online Q Banks.Not a must have but definately usefull. Helped me a through Step 1
However, if you are studying in a subject based format, this would be a completely waste of your money. The bottom line with this book is that it contains one block of 50 questions per organ system. So if you are doing an organ systme approach to studying for the Board then this could be helpful. Furthemore the questions in this book are selected from the First Aid Rx question bank, which means why buy the book if the 1 month subscription for the question bank is worth the same. besides the question bank has much better explanations than the book- as they correlate with the current version of the First Aid Step i book.
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