First Aid for the USMLE Step 1: 2007 [Paperback]

Vikas Bhushan (Author), Tao Le (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 19, 2006 | ISBN-10: 0071475311 | ISBN-13: 978-0071475310 | Edition: 17

The #1 Review for the USMLE Step 1 - written by students who aced the boards!

• 900+ must-know facts and mnemonics organized by organ systems and general principles
• 24 pages of color photos like those on the exam
• 100+ clinical vignettes
• Brand new Pathology chapter and totally revised Behavioral Science chapter
• The famous “First Aid Ratings” - 300+ medical test prep resources rated by students
• Updated exam preparation guide with advice from Step 1 veterans
• Strategies that maximize your study time and deliver the results you want

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About the Author

Vikas Bhushan, MD is a practicing diagnostic radiologist based in Los Angeles, California. Tao T. Le, MD is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Pediatrics at University of Louisville; and Assistant Professor in Medicine, Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 560 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical; 17 edition (December 19, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071475311
• ISBN-13: 978-0071475310
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #668,684 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Terrible Mistake......., January 27, 2007

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Rich Jerk is Awful "JD" (TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: First Aid for the USMLE Step 1: 2007 (Paperback)

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.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Ever !!!, June 11, 2007

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This review is from: First Aid for the USMLE Step 1: 2007 (Paperback)

No doubt this is the bible for the exam, no matter if you just want to pass or ace it. Some background is required to store and fully understand the summarized info provided, but the book itself is almost a miracle (who would ever think about compiling all basic disciplines in a single and not big volume?).

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars systemic review of the review, February 11, 2007

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N. Rosen "medstudent, mommy" (Toronto Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: First Aid for the USMLE Step 1: 2007 (Paperback)

Of course, how can the FA be knocked down? I had the 2006 version and sold it, thinking this had more. I think you fare well with the 2006 version as well because both are the new systemic versions.
Don't rely on this----only review this at the end of your preparation for Step 1...I fully recommend Kaplan otherwise and then go to this.