new_n_lost
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I did and yes u r right the articles r too much to follow for our purposes. The articles can be used to have very detailed indepth information on a topic but in the long run they wont help u much in the Step 1 preparation. If u really and i do mean really want to follow a topic then go google it Otherwise the only other site which really helps us in Emedicine. I mean really does help. NEJM is like for ur understanding only u can literally become very knowledgeable but seriously u wont have time for it. Cos most of the details offered r very much beyond Step 1. The Articles which might help u r the ones which explain the Pathophysio of the Disease otherwise its a clinical Journal.
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| bioguy
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yeah, i thought so! as a sampler i read an article on the mechanism of cystic fibrosis. god! it was too molecular!!!! i mean, i enjoyed reading it - for the sake of knowledge. but for step 1, nah!!!!!
thanks nnl!!!!!!!!
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| neuroblast
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My 2 cents worth:
Don't read it for USMLE prep. Do it for your own interest and in topics you are interested in. I see a lot of people select only articles and letters to the editor that are of immediate interest to them and their feild.
That said, the reviews are really really good. I highly recommend reading a review. It gives you all the collected, updated data in a very orderly fashion as well as very good systematic explanations of varios findings. If I am not mistaken I think they did a series on Obesity and type 2 Diabetes some years back...really good.
The other thing is that while it's not good for USMLE, the face of medicine is changing and becoming very "molecularly precise" as lots of residents have mentioned. Also most american med students and residents do a lot of hard core lab bsed research and it's a good idea to be familiar with a lot of the terminology and previous findings and well published studies to keep up with everyone. I usually copy an article or review and keep it in my bag then read it on a train or anywhere I have to kill time but cannot read a text book, being too noisy or distractive. I use highlighters a lot and then go home and look up everything that sounded like a foreign language to me.
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| bioguy
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couldn't agree more neuro... especially since i am doing a PhD, which had my thought process really honed up on the molecular stuff. i feel as if the whole medicine field is falling properly into place like a self-assembling jigsaw puzzle, once you start thinking about every medicinal concept at molecular level, you really don't need to memorize without knowing whats what - unlike you do when in the 'wonder years' i.e. beginning years of medschool!!!!!
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| neuroblast
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Thnx bioguy. I actually did some research work and quickly realized how ignorant and challenged I was in understanding concepts. i spent long hours trying to make sense of MAPkinase pathways and histone deacetyases. A lot of med students do this in college before medschool
and lots of residents were conjuring up ideas for publication like it was no big deal. It was a tough lesson but once I worked on iit I felt less of a moron in front of everyone else.
I've noticed a lot of senior physicians have much respect for you if you can "talk the talk"
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| neuroblast
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Heck i love research, you are your own boss. You have your own space in the world... No calls excpet when your cells croak!
If you look at the history of most Nobel prize winners in Medicine and Physiology hardly anyone of them is a practicing physician. When I was in research a lot of physicians used to escape to the lab and "pretend" to do bench work. they loved the peace and quiet of the lab setting where no one bothers you.
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