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

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Year 3