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Biochemistry: Board Review Series

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This book is outstanding for use while taking class and then reviewing material for Boards. Clear and concise. The diagrams are clear and somehow stick in your head. Questions at end of chapters are really good. Good explanations too. Easy to read. Better than Lippincott for Board review...many more questions and more high yield material.

When I was preparing for step 1, I bought this book as an alternative to "Lippincott's Illustrated Biochemistry". I did not have enough time for that book and other books were too short. At first I was skeptical, but when I started reading the book, everything changed. I studied it in 5 days and I could not believe how well prepared I was. I had no problem during the test. This book gives you a very good understanding of biochemistry as a whole picture. It has some unnecessary chemistry details that you can skip. Also questions are not clinically oriented, so try to use another test book. The author of the book has done a terrific job in summarizing and choosing subjects that are important for test. It has good illustrations that help you visually remember material.

This is a concise review of biochem for the boards. Dr. Marks explains things and is able to put them in an outline form so you are not reading endless text. The questions at the end of each section are really helpful.

Dr. Marks' biochemistry board review series is quite informative. It gives a good foundation for those who have never had a biochemistry class and provides great review for those who have. It is a great supplemental text that helps to clarify and test the student's knowledge of the information. The book often helped to provide a guideline by which studying could be approached for the course. However, students should understand that the book is not meant to substitute their syllabi or their texts.

This book was not helpful to me studying for Step 1. It contains too much unnecessary detail while it lacks clinically relevant information. 1st aid was sufficient + Lippincott for its nice charts.

This book is not bad but for Board review stick with Goljan and get the Rapid Review. For class there is not enough detail so I would stick with Lippincott's Biochemistry

Unfortunately, I did not discover this text until it came time to study for USMLE step 1. Most in my medical school class read the Lippincott Illustrated Review Book as a primary text. In medical school I read the entire biochem textbook (stryer). This BRS book is awesome. It is in outline format and has all of the information you could be tested on. I made it through it in just a few days when studying for step 1. This is a much quicker read than the other Lippincott book. I highly recommend it. Worked very well in combination with First Aid for Step 1. Would also be helpful to use as an additional resource during class.

What I liked about this book was the details regarding metabolic pathways and how she puts them all together, much better then high yield, I also used her book for my bio chem course as well, Lipincotts has great diagramms, but this book for me was even more helpful

I had the misfortune of not taking medical school biochemistry in my first year, so I attempted to cram all of biochemistry in a few days using this book. The books was incredibly dense, went into the pathways in incredible detail, and was not particularly helpful for highlighting the important concepts tested on USMLE Step I. I would definitely use another book for Step I review, but I might use this if I had to take a rigorous biochemistry course.

This book is a must for any medical biochemistry class. I probably could have skipped all the required texts and just bought this.