Advice

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 * Best Advice for Succeeding at UTCOM (EARLY DRAFT)**
 * =**Year 1**=
 * ==Biochem==
 * Final exam: DO NOT just study the diseases. True, the final will be clinically-oriented, but by no means will be just limited to the diseases. It is a true comprehensive exam.
 * ==Anatomy==
 * Must haves: Netter's Atlas and Netter's Flash Cards
 * Spend more time in the lab than you want to
 * Prepare thoroughly for lab, otherwise you won't know what is going on and it will be a waste of time
 * ==Neuroscience==
 * Must Haves: Neuroanatomy Atlas
 * ==Behavioral==
 * Do not sleep on this course. They know that everyone thinks it's easy, so they make the questions very nit-picky. I know several students who received all honors in the first two years of med school EXCEPT this course!
 * =**Year 2**=
 * ==I&I==
 * Get Microcards, study them and love them, they are often better than the notes
 * Don't take the cases lightly, they come back in a major way on the final. However, they seem to be emphasized more on the weekly quizzes than on exams. Check out the I&I study guide section for help.
 * Find and do as many practice questions as possible
 * Remembered "important concepts":
 * Counterintuitively, muscarine poinsoning does not come from the //Amanita muscaria// fungus, but instead from the //Clitocybe dealbata//
 * ==Organ Systems==
 * ===Best Books===
 * Rapid Review: Pathology, this book is by Goljan, who is the god of pathology and board review
 * BRS Pathology is good too, it is a little shorter
 * BRS Physiology - this book is marvelous
 * ===Flash Cards===
 * Pharmcards
 * Lange's Pathology Flashcards - great supplements
 * I haven't found a great text for pharmacology, but Lippincott's Illustrated Pharmacology is popular
 * =**Step 1**=
 * =**Year 3**=