Step-Up: A High-Yield, Systems-Based Review for the USMLE Step 1

by Samir Mehta

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0781738938
• ISBN13: 9780781738934
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Step Up

This book is a perfect brief systems review for the visual learner. It hits the high points and has more tables that make comparing disorders easier than in the First Aid. It has great diagrams as well and isn't as all over the place as First Aid. But, it does lack some of the information in the First Aid, but you can add that stuff in anyway or get it fom Goljan...

comparable to first-aid

I haven't taken Step I yet, but so far I have been using it along with my classes on system. It is very helpful. I love the charts!

Awesome Book

Step Up is a great alternative or compliment to First Aid for Step 1. The systems-based organization of Step Up makes it an awesome review resource for unit exams if your school uses a systems -based approach. Step Up is particularly strong in terms of Pathophysiology and Embrology. If you are a visual learner definitely go with Step Up as the charts and diagrams in Step Up are far more numerous and in my opinion superior to those in First Aid. While the content of First Aid is great, the organization and formating are pretty bad. I would definitely still buy First Aid as the Micro, Pharm and Biochem sections are relatively strong. During my M2 year I used Step Up primarily for organizing info and First Aid as a secondary resource for high yield facts (and primary resource for Pharm and Micro review)and this worked well for me. As several other reviewers have noted, there are a few typos. This is probably Step Up's main weakness but should not stop you from buying this awesome book. [...]

The Bible

This book is the bible of basic medical science. It incorporates everything you need to know into a concise, systems-based format. It is easy to read, and is great to use as you go through the systems in your first two years. Don't wait until board prep to buy this book! Use it all along to see what information is truly "high-yield".

High Yield

I used this book in addition to the Kaplan series. I felt this was ideal in the week prior to the exam, and was superior to first aid. There are several mistakes in the text, but between this text and kaplan I crushed the exam. I would not recommend this text to anyone who is weak in pharmacology!