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First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 2012 (First Aid USMLE) [Paperback]

Tao Le (Author), Vikas Bhushan (Author), Jeffrey Hofmann (Author)
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Publication Date: December 19, 2011 | ISBN-10: 0071776362 | ISBN-13: 978-0071776363 | Edition: 22

Turn to the world’s bestselling medical review book for the most thorough and up-to-date USMLE preparation possible – now in FULL COLOR

First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 delivers exactly what you need to ace the exam: More than 1200 frequently tested facts and mnemonics that provide a complete framework for your USMLE review.

  • Conveniently organized by organ system and general principles
  • 125+ full-color clinical photographs integrated throughout the text
  • Hundreds of full color illustrations complement the text and improve retention
  • Rapid-review section for last-minute cramming
  • Detailed test-taking strategies to help you maximize your study time • Hundreds of student-recommended USMLE Step 1 review resources

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About the Author

Tao Le, MD, MHS, is Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Allergy and Immunology at the University of Louisville. He is also affiliated with the Division of Allergy and Immunology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Vikas Bhushan, MD practices diagnostic radiology from his home-base in Los Angeles, California.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 680 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical; 22 edition (December 19, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0071776362
  • ISBN-13: 978-0071776363
  • Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.4 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (69 customer reviews)
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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful
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It is incomprehensible that a review book that simply summarizes other books, that changes so very little of its material every year, can have SO many mistakes. Seriously, do a search for First Aid Errata and you'll see the pdf with all the errors. It's put out by the same folks; they offer $10 for writing in with an error. It's 10 pages long, about 20 errors listed per page, just for the 2012 edition. I'm no math whiz, but that's like 2 grand worth of payouts. How about you pay the same for someone to actually READ the book before you publish it? There was a similarly long errata pdf last year for the 2011, so either they're not correcting old errors or they're managing to screw up whole new things. Who is editing these things? I mean, it's pretty much the same exact book every year!

Yes, they've gone to color. And that is appreciated. But giving someone stars for including color diagrams is, well, lame. This is 2012. Color has been around in print for some time now. They've even got it in movies, I hear.

And they even managed to screw up the colors! Green for inhibitory, red for stimulatory. Really? Someone's been taking too much Ethambutol.

First Aid is like the fat, lazy General Motors of the 70's. Consider themselves the Standard of the World, too complacent to fix their problems, much less improve their product (with the exception of this year's big move to color - Now you're on the trolley!). And everyone uses them because that's what the old folks used.

Where are you, Japanese First Aid?
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have owned and used both 2010 and 2011 First Aid. This edition adds color headings, puts images with text, and spreads out the formatting. Overall, this is a great change.

However, because they so drastically changed the formatting, and seem to have little editorial oversight, they managed to omit entire subsections. While some sections, such as "Reportable Disease" may be ommitted for being too low yield, others such as the drug Hexamethonium, the Measures to Treat Risk Factors, etc., are missing entirely. Many of these items are listed in the index (perhaps even BOLDED), but lo and behold they are missing on the actual pages. I have finished studying about 20% of the book to a high level, and have found 10+ instances of this.

Not really a problem if you have a 2010/11, or use Doctors in Training/Kaplan as you can just annotate in. But, I think this is just such a sloppy way to make a book (combined with the thin, smeary paper everyone else has mentioned), that I lower it from 5 to 3 stars. Having various errata is fine; entire deletions are not.

Not a deal-breaker, and I would buy it over 2010/11, but just make sure you annotate b/c this book is just straight up missing stuff it says it contains.
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24 of 30 people found the following review helpful
By Will J
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Edit: 1/9/12
Changing my review to 4 stars. I just tried to highlighting as another review mentioned and it does indeed smear the ink a bit. But using a bit higher quality sharpie highlighters, it didn't really smear much, if at all. While I don't really highlight first aid (b/c everything's relevant and important), others might find it a flaw.

Edit: 1/6/12

After using for a week, I really have to say this update is MUCH better than previous updates. Is it perfect? No. Definitely not. But did they make a lot of changes for the better?

in the 2010 => 2011: the book came out almost identical, except for a changing the cover

in the 2011 => 2012: there are multiple changes, which in my personal opinion, is for the better. They took the colored platelets at the end and incorporated them into the text itself. Why is this beneficial? Well, it allows you to make faster associations. There've been many studies on memory that have shown pictures/diagrams etc will improve recall.

also, people complain about errors. All books have errors! But what makes First Aid so great is that they have an errata that is CONSTANTLY being updated. You'll be hard pressed to find any resource that does this as frequently.

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I received my copy in the mail this morning. I've looked through it for a few hours and here are my thoughts...

First Aid will always be amazing for the boards. This edition, in my opinion, far exceeds their usual yearly updates. They got rid of the individual colored images and integrated the diagrams/pictures into the text itself--NEXT to the related topic. The good thing is that they didn't over-do the pictures. First aid has always been, and always should be, a review/outline of the most pertinent material for step 1. They have not abandoned that purpose.

In summary, I believe this is a great updated edition of first aid. Must better than previous editions in which the only thing they updated was 2010 => 2011 on the cover. It's definitely a great buy!!

I'll try to update this with any errors or other thoughts.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Only buy it because there are no alternatives
Some of the errata have existed for multiple generations of the book, the failure to edit is inexcusable, and correcting it will take hours of time. It is infuriating. Read more
Published 4 hours ago by Kevon McCarty
Lots of info, loaded with errors
MUST check out FA2012 errata on the site (just google it). Loaded with errors, but most are not big ones. Still a good book.
Published 2 days ago by runlikeanantelope
First Aid 2012 for Step 1
This colored version of First Aid is actually a pleasure to read and study from than the prior dreary black and white editions. Read more
Published 6 days ago by Frank Harris
Good review, but TONS of errors
First Aid 2012 is a good review book for boards, but I wouldn't say it is all you need to study, and DEFINITELY check the errata. Read more
Published 7 days ago by Deepak Agarwal
Plethora of errata!!
There are 14 pages worth of errors in this edition. They just threw it together I imagine because they changed it to color. Read more
Published 11 days ago by JMePrice
Absolutely riddled with errors
This book is so poorly written, there are mistakes at least every other page. Not only that, but most of these mistakes are inexcusable. Read more
Published 12 days ago by Fratticus Finch
Indecisive at first, but HAPPY I bought it
I already own the 2010 version but wanted to upgrade so I googled reviews and pretty much saw everything from "the book is crappy but now in color" to "best friend for step 1. Read more
Published 16 days ago by LadiiFresh
Almost an error per page
Just downloaded the errata for the 2012 edition- 14 pages! The amazing thing is, the errors are in information that really hasn't changed from previous years. Read more
Published 19 days ago by A. Darrington
Simply Ridiculous
I am in the midst of my STEP studying and this book is giving me aneurysms.

I'm just going to start with the PROS list, which is shorter.
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Published 19 days ago by Law Tsai
How could this happen?
So many mistakes that there are even errata on the errata document (which is 14 pages and counting, by the way). How could the FA team allow SUCH gratuitous oversight to happen? Read more
Published 19 days ago by JayCeeMD
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