First Aid for the USMLE Step 1: 2007 by Vikas Bhushan, Tao Le Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of First Aid for the USMLE Step 1: 2007
Book Review: Great for the last minute studier
Summary: 5 Stars
First Aid is a great guide for people who like easy, high yield mneumonics, only-the-essentials summaries, and fast reviews of body systems. Includes info on how to study for and register for Step 1. Definitely getting your money's worth.Book Review: Great place to start
Summary: 5 Stars
Good overview. I used this, listened to Goljan, and did all of USMLE Rx question bank. I took notes from Goljan and the question bank in the margins of First Aid. Scored top 1% on Step 1.Book Review: Okay, not a lot of material
Summary: 3 Stars
The book has a great outline of information that you need to know for the step I, however, it doesn't have a large amount of actual review material. The book does tell you good resources taht you can use to find it though.Book Review: Terrible Mistake.......
Summary: 2 Stars
Everyone knows that First Aid is the bible of USMLE prep. It is still a great book, I just want to comment on the number of errors in this edition of the book.
When First Aid switched to the system based format for 2006 you expected some errors due to the reformating. However, the 2007 should have corrected these errors. Isn't that why they come out with a new edition every year? I will give them credit for fixing many of the errors, but in the process, they have created new ones that were originally correct in the past version! First Aid has somehow figured out how to take a completely correct figure from the 2006 edition, and screw it up for the 2007 edition. These aren't just typos, they are mistakes that took human effort to create.
For example, the fetal circulation diagram is perfectly correct in the 2006 version, but when you compare it to the 2007 version, it is all screwed up. The diagram itself if exactly the same, and so is the text, but they have gone in and changed the colors around to make the oxygenation levels in the blood incorrect. This doesn't just happen when you print it out. Some person actually changed it. This is not the only example of this. I have found almost a dozen errors in 2007 that were correct in the 2006 version. (And I have only started to study) But why would they do this?
The only real answer is to get you to buy next years version. People hand books down a lot in medical school, and this would decrease their profits if the 2007 version was just as good as 2008. So in order to keep sales up, First Aid is scamming people. It sucks.
Book Review: The 2007 has great updates in format!
Summary: 5 Stars
I had the 2005 FA right when I started med school as a resource, but when I got ready to actually study for Step 1, a number of folks I knew had the 2006 which was organ-systems based. Since our curriculum was organ-systems, I decided it would be worth the investment, so I got the 2007. The 2007 is even better than the 2006, it has really good "basics" sections and the organ systems are well organized and logical. The new Psych portion is great! I think this is a great resource, like any book, it has a few mistakes, but the corrections are out there on the web, so it is easy to fix the few things - if you didn't catch them as your were stuyding anyway. Fabulous, worth it!