shilahk
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hi all usmlers....
I wish you all the best of luck and to get the highest score you ever dreamt of...
let's make this topic as the single easyily found source mentionening book source for step 1 for the aim of making things easy for us and our colleugues who are confused about which books to choose for step 1....i wish everyone of you to come in here and mention his book sources...i am gonna start by myself..
Main source: Kaplan series 2002 for all subjects and their webprep plus Goljan Review (stars) for pathology (i don't have goljan audios i need somebody to make me a favor and snd them to me).
Adjunctive books:high yield in neuroanatomy, histology and immunology
Questions books: Q book and Q bank, pretest and NMS test book.
that's all...waiting everybody telling us about his book source for step 1..
take care
Edited by Anno Domini on 05/28/06 - 05:26 AM
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| mazinger
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Think you should change your path source. Pick BRS or goljan rapid review, stars pathology was written by goljan himself I havent read it, but I have this idea that is not board relevant. The rest you will be fine.
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| vallia
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my sources
FA , pathology- BRS and Robbins, Physiology- Kaplan 2002, Biochemistry- Lippincott's Illustrated Review, anatomy- Kaplan and Atlases, Microbiology-Levinson and Jawetz , farmacology-BRS, the rest Kaplan..
Q book, Q bank, Webpath, Robbins path, Physio Qbank, Pretest Series
I need advise for immuno source, please
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| p53
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vallia, I don't recommend 'BRS pharmacology' - outdated with accents on the low-yield stuff; get 'Road Map: Pharmacology', by Katzung, 2nd ed. 2005, 170p. instead.
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| vallia
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thanks for you advice, p53. I will try to get the book for the second reading.
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| general malaise
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i like this post, here is my list
anatomy, neuro, embryo, histo: high-yields
biochem: kaplan + high-yield cell & molecular
pharm: kaplan
physio: kaplan
path: brs + everything goljan
micro: MMRS + microcards
immuno: kaplan+levinson's
behavioral: kaplan
for reference: lippincott's biochem, great book. robbins, one of the best books i've ever read, should be called poetic descriptions of disease
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| shilahk
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hi general mailaise and mazinger ...
thanx for you posts ...and thanx for everybody who replied...
mazinger..are you sure about goljan stars??what's the problem if goljan himseld wrote it..if you are right it should be great source bcs goljan himself did write it..what do you think??i don't have BRS pathology..i have kaplan and robbins the junior (i think jonior robbins will take me 5 months if i want to study it well..what do u think??)...what do u think about kaplan patho???
general malaise. ..what do you think???i need your advice in pathology source???
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| aisha2
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this is what im usin for my prep
kaplan 2005 for every thing, except for Behav.Science usin BRS and Pathology, usin goljan 500 pages + his lectures , and First Aid , will be gettin Qbank for my Q source . and thats it , just goin to do these thing very well.
shilahk i think kaplan pathology is a complete waist of time , im not sure how goljan (stars) path is never seen it , but i know the rapid review or the 500 pages notes r good , if u can get them that should be ur first choice , other wise stick to BRS path , but dont wiast ur time on kaplan.
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| shilahk
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hi aisha2....
thanx for ur advice....do you know where can i get those 500 pages notes, or can u send them to me by email??? pleaze if any one can send them to me , i will be very thankful
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| general malaise
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i agree with aisha2, trash kaplan path. stick to either brs, rapid review or goljan notes
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| shilahk
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i see..thanx for your advice general malaise...unfortunately i don't hae goljan note that u r talking about...i only have goljan stars
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| sonaliraj99
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hi all... great thread... here's me contributin..
al subjects kaplan except path.. additional r d fol:
anat... hy histo embryo, snell's neuro(only 4 diag n cv)
path.. goljan 5oo pages n audio , webpath, refrence... papa robbins n harrison's... i also liked boards n wards.. wat do u al think... really nice..
immuno.. levinson's, hy also..
beh sci... brs
pharm... d book which i read durin univ.. mainly for d drug names..
online sources... doctok..(SHILAHK... U CAN DOWNLOAD D AUDIO N GOLJAN NOTES FRM HERE) NICE NOTES FOR OTHER TOPICS TOO
gonna get q bank.. 'l soon start q book..also al in d underground clinical viggnettes series.. i think tht's it 4 d moment...
Edited by sonaliraj99 on 03/29/06 - 07:48 AM. Reason: forgot one source
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| aisha2
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shilahk , the 500 pages notes is BIG file , i have tried to send it to alot of ppl but it never worked , i actualy got it when i bought the kaplan dvds from some guy and he gave this cd with so many extra things , then i spend 2 days just printin the whole thing out , but u can buy the rapid review and do that cover to cover , i think its better in the sence that its very organized ...... and if i would have known of the rapid review i would have just bought it and used that with his audio lectures .
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| penshoppe
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here's my list:
everything with kaplan 2002 plus:
HY for Immuno, Molecular Bio
FA
selected topics from baby Guyton for Physiology
still thinking HY for anatomy, embryology, histo, neuroana; goljan for patho ( i'm done with kaplan patho but i need to imporve more on patho so i think i need to do goljan)
Qbook, Qbank, want to do NBME too if time allows me to.
Happy studyin' everyone!!!
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| pocas
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im using kaplan for everything exept for patho i choice goljan rapid review, beha high yield , fisio board,anato high yield ,,,, first aid ,,, exams q book q bank and nmbe
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| shilahk
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hi penshoppe..i like your set of books...
but which goljan are u using??stars, 500 apges..or what??
good luck
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| zzzz
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hi everyone iam using kaplan for physio,pharm,beh.sci.,biochem,hy for all anatomy,micro from mrs., & patho from stars goljan i have 500 pages too but they are very point to point if you are a person who can get through points then it is excellent i am an old graduate so i need some text to understand & read i like stars goljan patho i listened his audio too & stars patho is word to word his audio lec so i think book plus audio is ok too,500 pages are very good too but it is very difficult to memorize at least for me .
for qs i am using q book & q bank only will do nbme for analysis thats it i think reading one book per subject is better than lost in so many.
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| zzzz
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and ofcourse first aid........forgot to mention.
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| indiandoc
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i need goljan audio badly please help
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| tolito
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what is mrs microbiology? what is the best suggested book for microbiology?
i find the kaplan series too 'concentrated' but after i read other 'easier' text and come back to kaplan,i find it easier to understand. i guess it is because iam an old grad so a lot of the stuff is new to me. the kaplan series contain virtually all the information one needs.
i am using
all kaplan 2002 notes
pharm.. lippincott (beautiful and easy to follow)
HY behav
HY Neuro
cli neuroanat made rid easy
FA
brs patho (1993 .. too old???)
goljan 500 and audio (awaiting delivery)
cracking the board ( not a good book. too simplistic. no attention to detail. will not recommend it)
rapid preparation (not opened it yet!!)
ucv....pathophysiology, biochem,micro
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| jaide
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@ tolito
mrs ..is made ridiculously simple... series..u should def get the micro mrs.. its very easy to understand and learn...
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| tolito
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thanks jaide
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| new_med
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Hey there everyone
I am new here and I am a new med grad as well. It is soooooo confussing with what material to get and where to start... I dont even know where to get my material from???? The only thing I have found is the documents from USMLE.org... it seems to very good becoz it gives an over view of what you have to study, with sample question and with the tutorial you can download and run on the computer... but thats about it... I cant seem to get further on from here... could someone please help me....???
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| dr_sarim
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here are my sources
pathology- BRS and goljan 500 +audio
physiology- kaplan 2005 + BRS
pharma - kaplan 2005
immunology - kaplan 2005 + notes downloaded from a link that was once in the download section ( i found it very useful -and helped a lot to understand )
neuroanatomy - kaplan 2005 ( may b i will check out hy....should i???)
anatomy - kaplan 2005
biochemistry - kaplan 2005
microbiology - kaplan 2005 and tables from MRS
molecular biology and genetics -kaplan 2005 but will check got hy
behavorial science - kaplan 2005 + HY
Qbank,Qbook,Webpath,...plan to take nbme
gl everyone for the steps
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| new_med
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Thanks a lot dr_sarim. Its a big help.... one more thing... where can I get them from???? Like on the internet.... ????? 
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