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I will be taking step1 in June. How should i organize my notes? I am just getting started and couldn't think of the most efficient way to get notes.

I plan on reading the Kaplan textbooks.

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hi, i would highly recommend you take a few hours out of your time, and read all the postings on this site, this question has been asked several times. not to say, you shouldnt have posted it, but just to say that you can find alot of info from reading others past posts as well.

i am near my end of studying, but i wish i had learnt this sooner.

i recommend learning it organ wise. the first aid 06 divides it by : biochem,micro,immuno,embryo, cns,cvs,resp,git,renal,endo,repro,musc,hem/onco

iused to think this way was very cnfusing, but it made it easier for me to have to learn only the physio/pharm/path /anat for that specific organ for that few days, and only a few pages, max 30.

rather than going, okay i have to read 400 pages on physio, then 400 pages on pharm. just hearing that makes me queasy.

kaplan is everyones favorite. there are alot of great link son this site. and goljan is great for pathology and supplementing biochem and alittle physio in between.

get comfortable with your first aid, it is a rough 400 pages of every subject/organ u need to know. it might lack in certain info, but it is a light read, at the end of your reviews. i suggest you start making notes into it , that way, after reading a 300 page kaplan book,you have already added notes into your FA along the way, and you never have to pick up that 300 page biochem kaplan book again, but flip through 30 pages of first aid with kaplan notes added .



i hope this helps.

gluck!








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