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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 610.76 EAN: 9780071545457 Edition: 1 ISBN: 007154545X Label: McGraw-Hill Medical Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Medical Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 561 Publication Date: December 04, 2008 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical Studio: McGraw-Hill Medical Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Everything you need to build a foundation for learning the basic medical sciences in one comprehensive review! 4 STAR DOODY'S REVIEW! "I would recommend this book to those preparing for USMLE Step 1. The chapters are inclusive with useful color pictures and charts. The many sidebars that include clinical correlates and mnemonics further help with retaining information. I would also recommend this book as an adjunct for those in the first and second year of medical school. It can help students focus on those aspects of the curriculum that are most important, both for Step 1 and during the clinical years as well."-- Doody's From the authors of First Aid for the® USMLE Step 1 comes this comprehensive summary of essential basic science general principles covered in the first two years of medical school. It provides the background you need before reviewing for the board and distills important coourse material down to easily understood parts. Features:
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 Rating:  - excellent bookThis book and First aid organ systems really help me for step 1. You don't need any other books, such as Kaplan, high yield, BRS. These two books have everything you need to know for step 1. Know them in and out! Rating:  - Wait for the next editionThe concept behind this book (and its counterpart Basic Sciences: Organ Systems) is excellent as an alternative to the $400 Kaplan home study set. The depth to which the information is presented is quite appropriate as a review for the USMLE Step 1 and to supplement coursework in both first and second year of medical school. Unfortunately, it seems as if both this book and the Organ Systems book were rushed to the publisher without so much as a single proofread and revision. The errors in these ... Read More Rating: - So, So close to great, but hold out for the second edition.So well organized. So clear. Great charts. Everything you need to know. It's all of the first two years of medical school in on place. There's just once catch... IT'S SO, SO full of mistakes! Some of it is pretty basic, fact-based stuff. Example: "Shigella...does produce H2S." Well, no, it doesn't. That's how you know it's not salmonella. They also like to put arrows showing lab values changing in a chart, but then mix them up. Or say PT when they mean PTT. Stuff like that; stuff ... Read More Rating:  - Next edition will be great, this one will make you cry.This book has great potential, but it is FILLED with errors. Unlike FirstAid for Step 1, there is no Errata (a webpage organized by the publishers of FirstAid which informs you of any found errors in the book.) I really like the organization and content of the book, but with so many errors it is too stressful to use and, until the next edition comes out, something I recommend you stay away from. Rating:  - If you like First Aid, you'll love General PrinciplesThis book, along with the new Organ Systems books, are the companion (or possibly replacement) to the original First Aid for the USMLE. Between the two books, they cover essentially the same material, but in much more detail (together, they're about double the length). With the original First Aid book, you usually have to go through the book and fill in a ton of notes as you go along. "General Principles" is basically the same charts and info from the original, but with the details already filled ... Read More 
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