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What is USMLE?The United States Medical Licensing Examination ®(USMLE®) is a three-step examination for medical licensure in the United States and is sponsored by the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) and the National Board of Medical Examiners® (NBME®).
The USMLE assesses a physician's ability to apply knowledge, concepts, and principles, and to demonstrate fundamental patient-centered skills, that are important in health and disease and that constitute the basis of safe and effective patient care. Each of the three Steps of the USMLE complements the others; no Step can stand alone in the assessment of readiness for medical licensure. Find out more about the USMLE » ¿Que es el PRMLE?El "Puerto Rico Medical Licensing Examination" es el equivalente en Puerto Rico al USMLE, el mismo esta acargo de la Junta de Licenciamiento y Disciplina Médica de Puerto Rico y el National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME). Solicitud de Reválida
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What you need to pass?
"First Aid for the USMLE Step 1"
And here are my top twenty reasons:
1. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 is a comprehensive resource. It covers every subject on the USMLE Exam.
2. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 is easy to read and follow.
3. First Aid for Step 1 can be used all year in your regular classes. As you cover biochemistry, you can study the biochemistry section for high-yield facts, for neurology the same, etc...
4. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 has a great selection of mnemonics. Good mnemonics are like free answers on a test.
5. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 has simple and informative graphics. If you can follow the figures, you can follow the flow of the text.
6. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 can be read over and over. My firm belief is that retention comes from repetition. You can read this book over and over until the information is drilled into your head.
7. First Aid for Step 1 is easy to get through. Reviewing for Step 1 is tough. Especially when you don't where to start or how to get to the end. With this book, you just start at page one and press on to the end. I recommend you read the whole thing as fast as possible, then go through it a second and a third time. With First Aid, this is easy to do.
8. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 is as close to a "comprehensive" resource as you will find out there. There are some who argue that the book "does not contain everything." But my argument is that the book contains more than enough to pass the Step 1 exam. It all comes down to retention of the material. If you retain only 10% of the information in First Aid, you may fail Step 1. If you retain 95% of the material in First Aid, you have no choice but to pass.
9. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 - the "Most Common Associations Section" in the back of the text. It is a gold mine of useful information. Both for the exam and in clinical practice, these associations need to be in the fabric of your being. These associations will be the clue that instantly points you in the direction of the correct answer choice on Step 1. Your start reading the question, think you know the answer already, then finish the question, look at the answer choices, and BOOM - you were right from the beginning. These "most common associations" are what gave the answer away from the beginning.
10. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 has the "Review Resources" section. This says a lot about the authors and publishers of the book, that they will review an promote texts other than their own. This is a great resource, when you realize that your 3000 page path book is too big to read - what's the next best thing? Just check out the "Review Resources" section.
11. First Aid Step 1 emphasizes the "high yield." There are certain things that every professor, book and review will touch on because they are important. These are emphasized in First Aid.
12. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 eliminates the "low yield." How do you fit 2 years of medical school into 500 pages, you have to eliminate all the extraneous material that comes along with the profound. First Aid does this well.
13. First Aid for Step 1 re-emphasizes "high yield" facts. If something is so important that it has a super-high likelihood of showing up on Step one, it is mentioned both in the body text, and out in the margin on the right hand side. In other books, these extra blurbs out to the side annoy me because they are used to explain body text. I would always ask myself "if the body text needs more explanation, why not just explain it in the body text?" That made sense to me. But blurbs for repetition and emphasis in this book are great.
14. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 has great flow charts. Often times you need a way to think about information other than rote memorization. First Aid has great flow charts to help you organize all the information.
15. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 has great "cognitive organization." That is to say the book presents material the way your brain things about material. For example, you can read an anatomy text about the muscles of mastication, vocalization and swallowing and never really know how to organize all that information. First aid has a section "muscles with glossus" and "muscles with palate" that help you cognitively organize the information in a way you can remember on a test.
16. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 has great path slides and color photographs. These are classic photos and slides. Know them now, and remember them for the future.
17. First Aid Step 1 is a great reference. The book is fully indexed, so you can find what you want when you want it.
18. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 has common abbreviations table. As you finish your second year, this table may seem completely irrelevant. But do you remember those first days of class? You knew nothing and the abbreviations table came in very useful.
19. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 has great figure selection. If a figure is in the book, chances are you have seen it before and you will see it again. Did you ever ask yourself why? Its because these are the high-yield figures you will need to know for Step 1 and beyond. By the by, never think that repetition of things such as figures is annoying or unimportant. The whole reason the same figures are repeated in every text book is because they are important.
20. First Aid Step 1 is time-tested and student approved. When I started first year. There was one book every older student recommended to me - First Aid. As I finished school and started residency, there was one book I for sure recommended to students - First Aid. The book has been there and it will be there.
21. ****BONUS**** First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 is updated every year. If you have the latest edition, you know you are getting the most up-to-date information. Yearly updates are a great idea, and I think more books would be better if they would do it as well.
1. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 is a comprehensive resource. It covers every subject on the USMLE Exam.
2. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 is easy to read and follow.
3. First Aid for Step 1 can be used all year in your regular classes. As you cover biochemistry, you can study the biochemistry section for high-yield facts, for neurology the same, etc...
4. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 has a great selection of mnemonics. Good mnemonics are like free answers on a test.
5. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 has simple and informative graphics. If you can follow the figures, you can follow the flow of the text.
6. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 can be read over and over. My firm belief is that retention comes from repetition. You can read this book over and over until the information is drilled into your head.
7. First Aid for Step 1 is easy to get through. Reviewing for Step 1 is tough. Especially when you don't where to start or how to get to the end. With this book, you just start at page one and press on to the end. I recommend you read the whole thing as fast as possible, then go through it a second and a third time. With First Aid, this is easy to do.
8. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 is as close to a "comprehensive" resource as you will find out there. There are some who argue that the book "does not contain everything." But my argument is that the book contains more than enough to pass the Step 1 exam. It all comes down to retention of the material. If you retain only 10% of the information in First Aid, you may fail Step 1. If you retain 95% of the material in First Aid, you have no choice but to pass.
9. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 - the "Most Common Associations Section" in the back of the text. It is a gold mine of useful information. Both for the exam and in clinical practice, these associations need to be in the fabric of your being. These associations will be the clue that instantly points you in the direction of the correct answer choice on Step 1. Your start reading the question, think you know the answer already, then finish the question, look at the answer choices, and BOOM - you were right from the beginning. These "most common associations" are what gave the answer away from the beginning.
10. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 has the "Review Resources" section. This says a lot about the authors and publishers of the book, that they will review an promote texts other than their own. This is a great resource, when you realize that your 3000 page path book is too big to read - what's the next best thing? Just check out the "Review Resources" section.
11. First Aid Step 1 emphasizes the "high yield." There are certain things that every professor, book and review will touch on because they are important. These are emphasized in First Aid.
12. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 eliminates the "low yield." How do you fit 2 years of medical school into 500 pages, you have to eliminate all the extraneous material that comes along with the profound. First Aid does this well.
13. First Aid for Step 1 re-emphasizes "high yield" facts. If something is so important that it has a super-high likelihood of showing up on Step one, it is mentioned both in the body text, and out in the margin on the right hand side. In other books, these extra blurbs out to the side annoy me because they are used to explain body text. I would always ask myself "if the body text needs more explanation, why not just explain it in the body text?" That made sense to me. But blurbs for repetition and emphasis in this book are great.
14. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 has great flow charts. Often times you need a way to think about information other than rote memorization. First Aid has great flow charts to help you organize all the information.
15. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 has great "cognitive organization." That is to say the book presents material the way your brain things about material. For example, you can read an anatomy text about the muscles of mastication, vocalization and swallowing and never really know how to organize all that information. First aid has a section "muscles with glossus" and "muscles with palate" that help you cognitively organize the information in a way you can remember on a test.
16. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 has great path slides and color photographs. These are classic photos and slides. Know them now, and remember them for the future.
17. First Aid Step 1 is a great reference. The book is fully indexed, so you can find what you want when you want it.
18. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 has common abbreviations table. As you finish your second year, this table may seem completely irrelevant. But do you remember those first days of class? You knew nothing and the abbreviations table came in very useful.
19. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 has great figure selection. If a figure is in the book, chances are you have seen it before and you will see it again. Did you ever ask yourself why? Its because these are the high-yield figures you will need to know for Step 1 and beyond. By the by, never think that repetition of things such as figures is annoying or unimportant. The whole reason the same figures are repeated in every text book is because they are important.
20. First Aid Step 1 is time-tested and student approved. When I started first year. There was one book every older student recommended to me - First Aid. As I finished school and started residency, there was one book I for sure recommended to students - First Aid. The book has been there and it will be there.
21. ****BONUS**** First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 is updated every year. If you have the latest edition, you know you are getting the most up-to-date information. Yearly updates are a great idea, and I think more books would be better if they would do it as well.
What is the best USMLE STEP 1 Question Bank?
Score Correlation Click here!
What You Need to Know About the NBME Self Assessment Forms
- The NBME question pool is different from the USMLE question pool and therefore the style of the questions are different although the content that they are testing is the same.
- USMLE questions are more similar in style with the online qbanks than NBME.
- The basis for using NBME self assessment tests to predict your probable USMLE score is due to the extensive correlation which NBME has done between both test results
- Therefore, the best use of NBME self assessment test is to predict your probable USMLE score and decide the optimum time to take the exam
- Although NBME self assessment tests can be use to assess your progress, there is some limitations. It measures your knowledge of USMLE content but it fails to detect any problem you have answering USMLE type questions.
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