USMLE Step 1 Flash Facts Studies Collection Guide

How to Use this Study Tool: The Nine Flash Fact Sets (also known as flashcards) comprising this USMLE Step 1 Studies Collection are offer with the following cautions, tips and caveats in mind: Anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, cell biology, neuroscience, pathology, microbiology and immunology and pharmacology are significant portions of the foundation of modern medical practice. Your success in sitting for the USMLE Step 1 will be dependent upon a mastery of the facts, concepts, definitions, and relationships presented in this basic medical science subject tools. Also, to the extent you are able to place this data in your knowledge-base will provide you more assurance in preforming well on subsequent parts of the USMLE (Step 2 and 3). And what is most to keep in mind is that the depth and breadth of your basic medical sciences fund of knowledge, as is reflected in this collection, will contribute substantially to you competency as a future practicing physician. The voluminous amount of factual information contain herein is quite complete and thus, should serve as a very good study tool. However, it presupposes that the learner has had formal coursework in the subjects presented at the undergraduate medical education level and thus , should only be used as a review and assessment tool of information previously studied. In using this set to prepare for the USMLE Step 1, it is only useful alongside more detailed standard USMLE review textbooks on the market and / or courseware such as IVMS, that comprise said review books as a part of its curriculum. This is because the content herein includes just the facts. However, the USMLE Step 1 assesses whether you understand and can apply these important facts and concepts of the basic medical sciences to the practice of clinical medicine in an integrated fashion, with special emphasis on principles and mechanisms underlying health, disease, and modes of therapy. So, although this collection may be quite complete on a factuallevel, it should be consumed only as prerequisite information toward the deeper-layered understanding necessary to successfully set for the USMLE Step 1.

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USMLE Step 1 Flash Facts Studies Collection Guide

In other words, we can say that indeed the USMLE Step 1 is designed to measure basic science knowledge such as is contained in this collection, but only the minority of the questions on Step 1 will test the examinees fund of factual information per se (just the facts). Rather, using a case-based stem MCQ format, seventy-five percent of questions on the USMLE Step 1 require the examinee to interpret graphic and tabular material, to identify gross and microscopic pathologic and normal specimens, and to solve problems through application of these basic science facts and principles. A final point to keep in mind is that this learning tool is presented using a subject-based approach, whereas the USMLE Step 1 is constructed from an integrated content outline that organizes basic science content according to general principles (subject-based) and individual organ systems (systems-based). Test questions are classified in one of these major areas depending on whether they focus on concepts and principles that are important across organ systems or within individual organ systems. Sections focusing on individual organ systems are subdivided according to normal and abnormal processes, principles of therapy, and psychosocial, cultural, and environmental factors. (See: http://www.usmle.org/step-1/) How to Best Flash this Study Tool: You will be reviewing and assessing the depth and breadth of your medical fund of knowledge in these basic medical science flash facts. Thus, it is best to use these tools in an interface that will flash the query first and then flash the answer immediately following. To do so this tool is best used upon download to your desktop in your Adobe PDF Reader (at 220% magnification). Using these specifications you should be able to use your readers up and down navigation button in the top left corner of the reader to flash a single query in the windowframe, and at a text size comfortable enough for your eyes to go through such a large number of pages. Of course when you encounter information you did not know or recall, it means you need to visit / re-visit that information in detail study program timeline. My Responsibility to IVMS Learners I will present an up-to-date, well-organized, high yield combination of subject-based and problem-based SCO (Sharable Content Objects) and media assets, such as this collection, that emphasizes the essential information student physicians preparing for the USMLE must command to be successful. Moreover Imhotep Virtual Medical School, as a Web 2.0 medical student companion, is committed to providing learners with a horizontally and vertically integrated body of medical knowledge they will need in order to understand the biology of the diseases they will be witnessing and treating in clinical practice. It is the responsibility of the student to translate this information into a meaningful, working knowledge of normal and pathologic processes. I will provide help and guidance to all committed learners, but the task of learning and the rewards of learning belong to the student alone - no-one can learn for you! I hope you will find this prescript guide usefu in organizing your studies using the flashcard learning method. The direct links to the individual sets are provided below. Marc Imhotep Cray, M.D. (bna dr_imhotep) ----------------------------------------------------------------To learn more please Visit IVMS Research Project Home Page
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USMLE Step 1 Flash Facts Studies Collection Contents: Full Collection Folder

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VMS Cell Biology and Pathology Flash Facts IVMS Genetics Flash Facts IVMS Physiology and Pathophysiology Flash Facts IVMS Neuroscience Flash Facts IVMS Microbiology Flash Facts IVMS Immunology Flash Facts IVMS Pharmacology Flash Facts IVMS Classic Cause-Findings Flash Facts IVMS USMLE Step 1 Comprehensive Flash Facts

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