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An indispensable high-yield review for the USMLE Step 2 CK!
The eighth edition of First Aid for the USMLE Step 2 CK is written by medical students who successfully passed the exam and reviewed by top faculty. The result is proven information and strategies that maximize your study time and deliver the results you want!
Features:
Thousands of must-know facts that summarize frequently tested topics Completely updated based on feedback from students who passed 120+ photographs similar to those on the exam Full-color design includes numerous clinical images Rapid Review section for last-minute cramming Updated ratings of Step 2 CK review resources
Tao Le, MD, MHS is Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics in the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology at The University of Louisville (Louisville, KY). He is the founder of USMLE Rx.com, an online subscription database of USMLE review questions.
Vikas Bhushan, MD practices diagnostic radiology from his home-base in Los Angeles, CA.
Nathan Skelley is the senior student editor.
Contributing Authors and Junior Editors are from Yale University School of Medicine and The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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FA一直是考U的圣经啦，虽然只有500多页的内容，但是考点拿捏的很准确，当然精准简洁的弊端就是有一些自己不太懂的地方得再去查，但是配上Kaplan的那五本书看，就很完美啦！总之很推荐！
书是很好的书，关键是怎么样才能消化啊，老外的东西真的还是挺好的哈
很好！但愿能有实质的帮助。
印刷质量很好，彩色的
Let me begin by saying I seriously struggled about getting this book. I LOVED (and loved to hate) FA Step 1.. FA + Goljan audio + UW for 4.5 weeks got me >230 after being a mediocre student for the first 2 years of medical school. I was 100% set on doing FA for Step 2 after I took step 1 but then all these reviews on Amazon and SDN scared me away so I started panicking and got Step Up to Medicine and got overwhelmed by it during my IM clerkship and then got MTB Step 2 and feel duped (too much obviously missing and I do not believe the reviews for it on Amazon anymore). I also bought Secrets to Step 2 and I really like that one but it's kind of hard to learn from initially but it's definitely a keeper.
Anyways, I ended up buying FA Step 2 CK and just started skimming it. I don't know why everyone keeps saying that it is lacking in information but then I remembered people used to say the same about FA Step 1. I'd constantly hear people saying that it NEEDS to be supplemented by RR or Pathoma or BRS or whatever. I ignored them and told myself if I could memorize every line in FA I will fill my little brain to maximum capacity for a single exam.
Now that I am looking at FA Step 2 CK, I feel like I can say the same... If I can memorize everything in this book + understand all answers of UW, I will feel confident about taking Step 2. Secrets for Step 2 will be my Goljan audio (mention interesting little high yield factoids). In summary, if you ignored the haters that told you FA Step 1 is not enough only to see for yourself that it was, then at the very least you owe it to yourself to give FA Step 2 CK a shot.
The sections are labeled "High-Yield Facts in..." "Gynecology," "Cardiovascular," et cetera. How astute. It is actually easy to make this designation. You could create a manuscript with exactly one fact that would likely appear on the test and that would make it high yield. It would be high yield and pretty much worthless.
This is a woefully incomplete resource. Whenever I get NBME questions, USMLE World questions, or clerkship pimp questions wrong, I go back to this only to find nothing. I end-up having to write whole new sections after performing the necessary research myself. This may be a good exercise in itself, but certainly is not a feature of the book. The book was not designed with this in mind: there is no space to write anything. I have had to start a word processing document to record everything and allow for quick search.
I have also tried reading the chapters as a textbook and found the "q[uestion,]" "mnenomic," and "key fact" boxes in the margins to be distracting. I already have a problem with being ADHD. Aren't all the facts in this book already "key facts?" This just makes it that much worse. Their mnemomics are not even that effective. The "Six Ps?" How insightful! There are a million words in the English language that start with 'p.' I am not sure if the authors know what "mnenomic" means what they think it means. They are confusing (bad) acronyms with mnenomics.
Perhaps the only thing I do like are their high quality figures which they have so thoughtfully assembled from various sources.
I don't like this at all.
Almost all med students know of the importance of "First Aid for the Step 1" in their board preparation; it's almost a rite of passage to buy, read, and annotate in it until it's dog-eared and the spine breaks. So, when I began my Step 2 preparation, I naturally purchased this book as it seemed the intuitive choice. However, for those expecting the ease and terseness of the Step 1 book, you will surely be disappointed. This would make for a two-star review, however, after a review of the other main options, I'd give it three stars, because it certainly isn't much worse than the competitors.
For starters, the format is not the mnemonic and diagram-driven format of the Step 1 book, but is written in paragraph and bullet point format. It's something I actually prefer to the outline format of "Step Up to Step 2", but some may find it dense.
The second thing--and my main dig on this book--is that it doesn't say much more about diagnosis and treatment than the Step 1 book! I expected it to be more focused on management of disease, but was underwhelmed. Unlike "Step Up to Medicine" and the Kaplan High Yield course, which tell you exactly what the "best initial diagnostic test" or "most accurate test" or "best initial therapy" is, First Aid for the Step 2 really...doesn't tell you that much at all. In many cases, it merely lists a bunch of diagnostic tests that "may be useful" or "may show (insert finding here)" but does not tell you in what order to do them. With treatment, it is equally as vague for many conditions.
It also surprisingly omits many conditions I've ran into in my question banks, such as every other type of aphasia except Broca's and Wernicke's. The section on non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which is a very diverse group of diseases, is condensed into a 1-2 page section that doesn't distinguish well between say, follicular B cell lymphoma, and Burkitt's.
There are some good things about this book; as I previously alluded to, the paragraph form is something I actually prefer. The writing style is very conversational compared to, say, Cecils' Essentials and it is in a very accessible format. This is an OK book if you plan on annotating heavily into it from question banks, reference books, journal articles, etc. However, if you don't plan on doing that (or if you are starting late in your preparation), I would suggest either reading this along with Step Up to Medicine to avoid missing out on the finer points of diagnosis and treatment or using a different book entirely like Step Up or MTB.
I had some doubts initially because people don't seem to love First Aid for step 2 CK as much as they love First Aid for step 1, but it's a solid review book with lots of tables and pictures. This book definitely does not seem to be as comprehensive as the step 1 book, but as long as you use a good qbank you will cover all your bases.
I don't have much to say about this text. As with First AID for Step 1, the charts/graphs are easily digestable and generally contain the information you want to know for the USMLE Step 2.
I primarily used the book to supplement the qbank questions I was doing. I read every chapter and made notes, and for the most part, saw the information repeated in the questions (that is to say, I saw few inconsistencies in or incorrect information). Using the text in the reverse order, does not work as well. This means, if you're attempting to expand upon a topic you've seen in a question, you're likely out of luck. The information, if present, is usually shorter and in less detail than the question/answer is describing. The other problem I ran in to, was that on many occassions, the diagnosis, medication, etc., was not in the text at all.
Overall, the text was probably sufficient for what I needed it for. If you're looking for comprehensive detail, you won't find it. If you're looking for a text that easily digestable and broad spectrum, it'll pass.
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