Primary Care for the USMLE Step 1 (United States Medical Licensing Examination)

Primarily intended for enrollees of Northwestern Medical Review programs but a benefit as a study guide to any student attempting the USMLE. This book has no beginning and no end. Each part is both dependent and independent on the other parts. You can start it anywhere. It will tell you how much you have learned and what you have yet to learn. CONTENTS: 1) Keyboard Associations. Keywords or buzzwords that are associated with key tested pathophysiological conditions. 2) Enzymes on the Boards. Defective Enzymes and associated key concepts. 3) Mnemonics for Basic Medical Sciences. 4) Endemic Diseases of the Boards. Diseases that always infect the Board exams! From basics to clinics. 5) Clusterophilia: Homogenous Collectible Species. An Aristotelian approach to Boards preparation. 6) The Mavericks. The oddballs of basic medical sciences. Exceptions to the rules. Even though they are classified as members of particular classes of basic science entities, they differ from the rest of their colleagues in some important ways. 7) Dyads of the Exam: The Contrasting Pairs. 8) Most Common Photographs, X-rays, CT, MRI, Pictures and Slides. 9) The Syndromes of the Boards. Frequently tested symptom complexes. 10) Memorabilia of the Boards. Basic sciences archives and pearls of previously tested facts. 11) Brief Clinical Gross Anatomy. 12) Stars of Clinical Scenarios. The Classic Patients. 13) The Most Commons of Basics Sciences. 14) High-Yield Integrated Concepts Physiology. 15) Condensed Behavioral Sciences. High-Yield Concepts, Notions and Statements. 16) Microbiology Keyboards. Information on must know keyboard associations for microbiology. 17) 300 Must Know Facts of Gross Anatomy and Answer Key. 18) Pre-Test 230: High Yield Embryology, Behavioral and Neuroanatomy Matching. 19) Pretest 230 Answer Key.