Product Description
This quick, easy-to-use review helps students get prepared for Step One of the USMLE. The question-and-answer RECALL employs helps students memorize the facts that are most often tested on the USMLE. The Second Edition organizes facts according to their specific basic science disciplines and provides accurate, up-to-date information at just the right level of depth for study and review. Many students regard “Buzzwords” as the strongest USMLE Step 1 tool on the mar… More >>
USMLE Step 1 Recall: Buzzwords for the Boards
#1 by Freddy Sallent on February 8, 2010 - 4:06 am
This book is completely useless. It only gives you key words to identify syndromes, pathologies, treatments, etc… but in the real test you don’t get those key words that lead you to a quick answer, like in this book. One of the worst books and worst review books out there. DON’T BUY. Don’t even bother to read into it, USELESS, USELESS, USELESS!!!
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by Anonymous on February 8, 2010 - 6:14 am
This definitely helped me remember more facts quite faster in preparation for the USMLE Step 1. The book focuses on key facts and topics that are so important to know in order to pass the test. I also used the following books that are also available on amazon.com:
Microbiology Study Guide: Key Review Questions and Answers
(ISBN: 0971999635)
Spinal Anatomy Study Guide: Key Review Questions and Answers
(ISBN: 0971999600)
The last two study guides helped me know the type of questions that were asked on the USMLE Step 1. I used these three books and passed the USMLE Step 1 the first time. I had a few friends who recommened the microbiology study guide. I’m glad I took their advice.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by wanker on February 8, 2010 - 7:26 am
don’t bother picking this one up. as a 2nd yr medical student prep. for the boards, I can tell you that this book is too “short attention spanned” to learn anything. each page has 2 columns, the left side w/ a question and the right side w/ the answer…there’s about 10 questions or so on each page…for each usmle topic (pharm, phys, path…). if you like kamikaze learning this might be for you. otherwise, if you’re looking for solid learning forget about it!
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by Med student on February 8, 2010 - 7:50 am
Has the potential for being a very helpful book, but I found it to be filled with repeated questions and incorrect information – suprising for a 2nd edition. Wouldn’t recommend this book until someone does a much better job editing it.
Rating: 2 / 5
#5 by Young Doc on February 8, 2010 - 9:45 am
This is a pretty good test of how well you studied material, but not a good way to review material for boards. Pretty much you will go through the book and be in love with yourself for having memorized a bunch of facts from notes and other reviews, or you won’t. There are minimal explanations to mechanisms or etiologies, and a few mnemonics that seem helpful. Other than that, I just used it as a way to determine how well I had understood material from other sources. If you buy a 200 page paperback with writing on half of each page and expect to have a board review book, you aren’t studying right.
Rating: 3 / 5