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First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 2017 27th Edition
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SCORE YOUR HIGHEST ON THE USMLE® STEP 1 WITH HELP FROM THE WORLD’S MOST POPULAR MEDICAL REVIEW BOOK
An unmatched collection of more than 1,300 must-know facts and mnemonics provide a complete framework for your USMLE® preparation
This annually updated review delivers a comprehensive collection of high-yield facts and mnemonics that pinpoint exactly what you need to know to pass the exam. Co-authored by medical students who recently took the boards, it provides a complete framework to help you prepare for the most stressful exam of your career.
Here's why this is the ultimate USMLE Step 1 review:
• All subject areas revised based on feedback from thousands of students
• Reviewed by nationally known USMLE instructor to ensure accuracy and relevance
• Hundreds of full-color illustrations clarify essential concepts and improve retention
• Valuable rapid-review section for last-minute cramming
• Detailed test-taking strategies to maximize your study time
• Expanded guide to high-yield USMLE Step 1 review resources, including mobile apps
• Real-time updates at www.firstaidteam.com
- ISBN-10125992159X
- ISBN-13978-1259837630
- Edition27th
- PublisherMcGraw-Hill Education / Medical
- Publication dateJanuary 2, 2017
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions9 x 1.25 x 11 inches
- Print length800 pages
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Tao Le, MD, MHS (Louisville, KY) is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Allergy and Immunology at the University of Louisville.
Vikas Bhushan, MD (Los Angeles, CA) is a practicing diagnostic radiologist.
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First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 2017 is finally here! The new edition represents thousands of hours of coordinated effort over the past ten months by dozens of student authors and editors, faculty experts, illustrators, and editorial staff. Some of the more notable highlights include:
- 30+ entirely new facts and better organization of related facts throughout the book, such as the neurodegenerative disorders (p. 490), cellular changes (p. 214), and gallstones and related pathologies (p. 379)
- Continued expansion of quality improvement principles, safety science, and healthcare delivery to align more closely with the USMLE Content Outline and student feedback.
- Complete reorganization of the Neurology chapter to better distinguish normal physiology from neuropathology and to emphasize the special senses.
- Improved Rapid Review section now fully cross-referenced to the text, to quickly find these high-yield concepts in context.
- Almost 5,000 specific textual updates culled from more than 50,000 comments and suggestions by experienced medical students and board review experts.
- Over 50 new full-color photos to help visualize various disorders, descriptive findings, and basic science concepts.
- Many imaging photos have been relabeled and optimized to show both normal anatomy and pathologic findings.
- Over 75 new or revised line diagrams that integrate pathophysiology, therapeutics, and diseases into memorable frameworks for annotation and personalization; examples include pages 96 (MHC I and II), 534 (psychiatric diagnoses by symptom duration), and 595 (estrogen).
- Thick, embossed cover and heavy-duty binding for increased durability and longevity.
We are sharing some example redlined pages on our blog:
firstaidteam.com/2016/12/30/whats-new-in-first-aid-for-the-usmle-step-1-2017/
so you can better appreciate the nature and extent of revisions throughout the text. Some edits involve only a few words, but hinge on a subtle yet frequently tested point that students felt was not adequately explained in the 2016 edition.
We hope you enjoy using the 2017 edition as much as we enjoyed putting it together. Verified errata (when yet available) can be found exclusively on our blog FirstAidTeam.com. First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 is a perpetual "work in progress," and we invite you to share your thoughts and ideas on our blog to help us continually improve the book for future learners.
Best wishes for your studies in the new year,
The First Aid Team
About the Author
Vikas Bhushan, MD (Los Angeles, CA) is a diagnostic radiologist.
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- ASIN : 1259837637
- Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education / Medical; 27th edition (January 2, 2017)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 800 pages
- ISBN-10 : 125992159X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1259837630
- Item Weight : 3.46 pounds
- Dimensions : 9 x 1.25 x 11 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #851,773 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #226 in Medical Test Preparation
- #696 in Medical Test Preparation & Review
- #1,038 in Allied Health Services
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Vikas is a writer, editor, entrepreneur, and retired teleradiologist. In 1990 he conceived and authored the original First Aid for the USMLE Step 1. His entrepreneurial endeavors included a student-focused medical publisher (S2S), an e-learning company (medschool.com), and an ER teleradiology practice (24/7 Radiology). Trained on the Left Coast, Vikas completed a bachelor’s degree at the University of California Berkeley; an MD with thesis at UCSF; and a diagnostic radiology residency at UCLA. His eclectic interests include cryptoeconomics, information design, and avoiding a day job. Always finding the long shortcut, Vikas is an adventurer, knowledge seeker, and occasional innovator. He and his spouse, Jinky, are avid kiteboarders and worldschoolers, striving to raise their three children as global citizens.

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Would also like to add that I'm so pleased by amazon's delivery service, since I ordered this all the way from Romania and it arrived pretty quickly.
Also, there's enough added / updated material in comparison w/ the 2016 version. Differences I've noticed after looking at Endo are 2 figures were updated (one adding where drugs work, the other making it easier to read), and there was more info added about drugs in the Endo pharm section. The GI section has similar updates to diagrams (blood supply to GI structures easier to read, picture added for Hirschsprung disease, different images used for path of disease ect.). The FA diagrams are one of the most helpful things in the book for me, so I was happy to see that many of them were updated / made better.
Opinion: It's worth buying even if you have the 2016 version
The format is non-cluttered, easy to read, and easy to find what you're looking for.
Whenever possible, they include mnemonics or other memory techniques, which is great (and often funny; their mnemonics are often a hoot!)
I always find myself thinking "Why didn't I buy this sooner!". So learn from me, get it sooner rather than later.
My advising dean recommended that I get this book to study along with my first year med school courses, so that I would get an early start at familiarizing myself with "high yield" step 1 info and also the books themselves. Seems like good advice to me!
Thank you to the FA 2017 Team and Amazon for rapidly fixing the issue!!!!!
The FA 2017 is now formatted appropriately in Kindle!
Cheers
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I have the FA 2016 Version on Kindle and it was formatted exactly as the hard copy book and you could even search for words within diagrams.
The Kindle version for FA 2017 is a complete mess as of 6-Jan-2017. Diagrams are blurry and words within diagrams can't be searched for (unlike the 2016 Kindle version).
Attached is a screenshot of the Kindle Version of FA 2017; you can see how some parts are formatted like in the book (as images, however) while other parts are not formatted.
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2017
Thank you to the FA 2017 Team and Amazon for rapidly fixing the issue!!!!!
The FA 2017 is now formatted appropriately in Kindle!
Cheers
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I have the FA 2016 Version on Kindle and it was formatted exactly as the hard copy book and you could even search for words within diagrams.
The Kindle version for FA 2017 is a complete mess as of 6-Jan-2017. Diagrams are blurry and words within diagrams can't be searched for (unlike the 2016 Kindle version).
Attached is a screenshot of the Kindle Version of FA 2017; you can see how some parts are formatted like in the book (as images, however) while other parts are not formatted.
What I like about this book is that it breaks complicated pathophysiology and physiology down into easy understandable steps and has lots of mnemonics to remember very specific disease processes.
It has everything from biochemistry to every body system with great patho break down in each..
I don't know anyone who has passed boards without it. Highly recommended. Dr B Harris
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Los temas son resúmenes concisos y perlas clínicas, no está redactado como un libro normal, ya que contiene en su mayor parte bulletpoints. Es un gran COMPLEMENTO para utilizar, más no se puede apoyar al 100% de el, de necesitan otras fuentes. Ya sea utilices el libro para preparación del USMLE O para el ENARM... La preparación del step 1, step 2 Ck, Step 2 CS, y step 3, con sus libros, otras fuentes y demás se puede decir equivale a la preparación del ENARM
- Affronta ogni patologia e sindrome attraverso le sue caratteristiche principali, senza spaziare troppo in minuzie anacronistiche;
- Dove possibile, include sempre strategie mnemoniche per facilitare l'apprendimento delle informazioni (utile soprattutto ai fini del test);
- Facile la lettura anche se in inglese, non serve avere chissà quale conoscenza della lingua per capire tutto senza problemi.
Insomma: se quello che stai cercando è un buon libro che ti permetta di riordinare un pò le idee e preparare in modo oculato il concorso SSM di turno, soprattutto se hai poco tempo per farlo, secondo me questa soluzione è ciò che potrebbe fare al caso tuo!






