First Aid Q&A for the USMLE Step 1

FIRST AID FOR THE®️

by Tao Le, James Feinstein

1,000 questions and answers prepare you for the USMLE Step 1!

The only comprehensive Q&A review for the USMLE Step directly linked to high-yield facts from Dr. Le's First Aid for the USMLE Step 1, this essential study guide offers 1000 board-style questions and answers, easy-to-navigate, high yield explanations for correct and incorrect answers, and more than 350 accompanying images.

Features:

1000 board-style questions and answers -- reviewed and approved -- by students who just aced the exam
Detailed explanations for both right and wrong answers - with letter options in boldface for at-a-glance review
Chapters keyed to Dr. Le's First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 so you can simultaneously review questions and high-yield facts
130+ high-yield images, diagrams, and tables
One complete practice exam consisting of 7 blocks of 50 questions simulates the exam experience

Genres: Medicine, Medical

784 pages, Paperback

First published November 21, 2006

Reviews

[M. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Complementary questions to solidify its companion: First Aid for the USMLE Step 1.
Better together!

[M. · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very nice collection of cases!

[Nancy Foster · Rating 3 out of 5]

Book is okay, I liked it more than the regular textbooks. Given the book is almost 20 years old, some of the questions are outdated, so the reader should be aware of this and avoid using it as a sole study source. I spotted several errors here & there, can't remember which they were because I read this book 2 years ago. It seems back then the editorial liked churning new editions like a factory to get into the money making wagon and the house of cards came crashing once Step 1 became Pass/Fail.

The books are still a useful quick reference resource for US students, but people these days prefer focusing on question banks to score the bare minimum points to pass the exam and focus their energies on doing well on the Step 2 exam.

As for IMGs, this question book at least is readable. The inane obsession with the First Aid series to use unusual acronyms for every situation makes the books nearly unreadable for people who didn't go to school in English language countries.

So, I don't quite know these days who is the prime market for these books. US students all use question banks that are constantly being updated and FMGs spend more time struggling to decipher the alphabet soup of acronyms used in these books instead of focusing on the actual material.

[Sanderson Dantas · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book worths to be read.

Though I've not taken the test yet, this book seems to be very useful for my test prep. Few things are not correct, but that doesn't make it less valuable. Objective, straightforward questions and commentaries, it's a fast and pleasant reading.

[Sanderson Dantas]

It worths reading.

Valuable reading. Though with few wrong information (ie, Light's criteria for exudate, chapter 14, case 13), that book approachs important topics por STEP 1 in a concise, clear and helpful way. Recommend it.