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From the authors who helped you pass Step 1, this is your high-yield review for the USMLE Step 2 CK. Completely revised to cover all core areas on the boards, including information on newly tested patient safety and quality improvement topics, First Aid for the USMLE Step 2 CK Ninth Edition features
- High-yield, bulleted presentation of diseases and disorders you need to remember
- Integrated flash-facts in margins test your knowledge at the point of learning
- Embedded case vignettes test your application of knowledge
- Key facts and mnemonics reinforce essential information
- Rapid-review section for last-minute cramming
- Includes hundreds of color clinical images and illustrations
Download First Aid for the USMLE Step 2 CK Ninth Edition First Aid USMLE Tao Le Vikas Bhushan 9780071844574 Books
"If you have been on any forum or talked to other med students regarding Step 2 CK the inevitable line is: MTB2/3 for review and Uworld for questions.
But there are better resources out there.
Lets get one thing out of the way first: Step 2 CK success comes from the resources and studying you did in your clinical rotations, how well you did in Step 1, and from Uworld questions and their explanations. The review book is much less relevant here than in Step 1. Importantly, however, a review book organizes your thinking and provides a single location for all the high yield facts.
First Aid for Step 2 is a good source. Not a great source. But compared to the classical Mastering the Boards combo it is leagues better. It actually covers topics in reasonable detail, especially IM topics, that MTB seems to shallowly skim over. While it is not as easy of a read, it is also not utterly worthless. MTB is made for people who just don't remember the disease. FA is made for people who dont remember specifics in pathophys and basic treatments of disease. In short FA is more detailed which makes it harder to finish but more useful if you actually plan on using a review book.
It is not perfect at all however. The pediatric section, while just as good as other review books, is horribly inadequate such that I annotated (from Uworld) to the point of wiping out all the margins in several pages in that book. The cardiology section does not have treatments for various arrhythmias nor talks about clinical decision making in such primary care topics as hyperlipidemia (the section is in the book, but the indicates for moderate vs high dose statins is not). The Gyn/OB chapters are passable but things like vaccinations to be given in pregnancy are not discussed, while other topics like screening for cervical cancer are presented as a wall of text rather than a flow chart.
Other topics are covered with more or less decent consistency. But oddly some topics will mention a disease but never mention the treatment or next best step which is unbelievably frustrating for a test which asks 90% of the time what the next best step (not the pathophys) is. Again this problem is glaring in the peds section.
The psych section was no better than the Step 1 version and even didn't include the ego defenses. It did have a bereavement vs depression table which is a high yield point for sure.
No surgery chapter. Sure some of the topics is under the header of "assorted topics in EM" but that is just silly considering it is a fundamental rotation.
In conclusion the book is good. Not great. If some sections were beefed up and the topics were covered more concisely and ALWAYS including treatment, then we are golden. If you plan on using a review book for Step 2 use this one. If you still prefer MTB 2/3 because it is an easier read then you are better off just doing questions."
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First Aid for the USMLE Step 2 CK Ninth Edition First Aid USMLE Tao Le Vikas Bhushan 9780071844574 Books Reviews :
First Aid for the USMLE Step 2 CK Ninth Edition First Aid USMLE Tao Le Vikas Bhushan 9780071844574 Books Reviews
- If you have been on any forum or talked to other med students regarding Step 2 CK the inevitable line is MTB2/3 for review and Uworld for questions.
But there are better resources out there.
Lets get one thing out of the way first Step 2 CK success comes from the resources and studying you did in your clinical rotations, how well you did in Step 1, and from Uworld questions and their explanations. The review book is much less relevant here than in Step 1. Importantly, however, a review book organizes your thinking and provides a single location for all the high yield facts.
First Aid for Step 2 is a good source. Not a great source. But compared to the classical Mastering the Boards combo it is leagues better. It actually covers topics in reasonable detail, especially IM topics, that MTB seems to shallowly skim over. While it is not as easy of a read, it is also not utterly worthless. MTB is made for people who just don't remember the disease. FA is made for people who dont remember specifics in pathophys and basic treatments of disease. In short FA is more detailed which makes it harder to finish but more useful if you actually plan on using a review book.
It is not perfect at all however. The pediatric section, while just as good as other review books, is horribly inadequate such that I annotated (from Uworld) to the point of wiping out all the margins in several pages in that book. The cardiology section does not have treatments for various arrhythmias nor talks about clinical decision making in such primary care topics as hyperlipidemia (the section is in the book, but the indicates for moderate vs high dose statins is not). The Gyn/OB chapters are passable but things like vaccinations to be given in pregnancy are not discussed, while other topics like screening for cervical cancer are presented as a wall of text rather than a flow chart.
Other topics are covered with more or less decent consistency. But oddly some topics will mention a disease but never mention the treatment or next best step which is unbelievably frustrating for a test which asks 90% of the time what the next best step (not the pathophys) is. Again this problem is glaring in the peds section.
The psych section was no better than the Step 1 version and even didn't include the ego defenses. It did have a bereavement vs depression table which is a high yield point for sure.
No surgery chapter. Sure some of the topics is under the header of "assorted topics in EM" but that is just silly considering it is a fundamental rotation.
In conclusion the book is good. Not great. If some sections were beefed up and the topics were covered more concisely and ALWAYS including treatment, then we are golden. If you plan on using a review book for Step 2 use this one. If you still prefer MTB 2/3 because it is an easier read then you are better off just doing questions. - So, unlike for Step 1, where First Aid was an easy first choice for a central studying resource, Step 2 has no best choice. First Aid for Step 2 is not that great. It is riddled with errors and missing a lot of testable topics. However, there really isn't a better answer. I own Master the Boards as well, but it is even more cut down than First Aid, so despite the explanations being superior, the fact that it is even more content-lacking makes it also not a great pick.
So let me tell you why I am still using this book. I am using it because I need a central resource to annotate information from UWorld questions, and there is sufficient room on these pages to do just that. I add in and change the content that needs to be changed -- do NOT trust information in here over UWorld explanations, because I can almost guarantee UWorld is right and this is wrong. I don't use this book to read from primarily, I use it to look up topics that are primarily directed by question explanations.
So first, ask yourself if you need a book to study for Step 2, because not everyone will. Questions should be your primary resource for studying, but beyond that, you may or may not benefit from also having a book to reference. In my case, I still find this useful, despite its faults. Hopefully the future will bring a better book for Step 2, but in the meantime, this is what we've got. - Haven't had a chance to go through it in proper detail yet but after a quick skim through side by side comparison with 2013 I can say it is better. The biggest difference this year seems to be the diagrams and pictures. There are more pictures , many of which are imaging which is much appreciated, and the diagrams seem more colorful and coherent. The pages have also been cleaned up and made more colorful so as to highlight important material. I definitely noticed a few things that were not mentioned in 2013 but as all yearly updates its probably 90% or more the same. In terms of material its about 50 pages larger which seems to be a combination of the new pictures, diagrams, material, and a slightly more spacious outline which I prefer. The quality of the printing appears better as well (or maybe I just got a bad copy of 2013). Should you buy it? I think yes even if just to make note of the new material (could be a Q or two on your test) and look at the plethora of new Pictures included.
- This book is way better than the previous editions. It explains​ thoroughly and it has questions and answers on how you suppose to ask the patient and how the patient is going to answer. It is really helpful if you have someone to practice with.
- Party plans on Friday night? Party it up with this bundle of joy; it'll keep you entertained, intrigued, feeling productive, and best of all you won't wake up with some rando trashy book you didn't remember putting on your side table last night, not because you were high but because it simply sucked more than the anorectal junction does you finger upon beginning a prostate exam.
I introduce to you my secret for summarizing the notoriously verbose and tedious lectures (obviously copied and pasted from uptodate), identifying key points that make acing med school exams such a habit that scoring an 88% becomes so pathetic that you'll find tears of disappointment quietly trickling down your face - but wipe them away fast and smile because that's simply UNPROFESSIONAL, and 'rocking out with my brain out' during rotations. Put me on the spot - I dare you Dr. Attending [middle name "Dream-crusher-attempter"] (but I still love/obsess/want to be you and it's so obvious)
Do yourself a favor and purchase this book, then highlight the poop out of it with every highlighter color you own (you know you have at least 5 different colors) so it gains 10lbs of neon and then you can bring it to Ultra music festival and blend right in.
You're welcome.
