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First Aid Forward: About First Aid Forward

What is First Aid Forward?

First Aid Forward® is the premier digital USMLE® study resource that brings you the trusted high-yield, and student-reviewed First Aid content, along with targeted quiz questions, on an immersive digital platform, that you can tailor to your unique needs –better positioning you to elevate your USMLE® content mastery.

Step 1 Product Tour

Step 1

First Aid Forward's books, quizzes, and tools work together to help you prepare for exam day and beyond:

  • First Aid for the USMLE (high-yield, student-to-student guide): Updated annually with crowdsourced contributions from thousands of students, this book provides a complete framework for USMLE Step 1 preparation. 
  • Cases: Work through patient cases just like the ones you'll see on exam day. Every case is linked to its high-yield facts, so you can he high-yield text in First Aid for the USMLE and supported by active learning questions so you can feel fully prepared for exam day.  
  • Clinical Pattern Recognition: This groundbreaking new guide helps you logically associate and link symptoms to likely diagnoses/conditions so you can master vignette-type exam questions, synthesize your preclinical knowledge, and succeed in clinical reasoning. 
  • Quizzes: Subject-level quizzes allow you to assess your strengths and weaknesses, while our in-text AI Reader quiz tool enables you to generate custom questions to check your understanding as you read and review. 
  • Note-Taking: Highlight, underline, circle, and box the text in 4 different colors, then export and search your notes as needed.   
  • Integrations:  The seamless integration of Boards and Beyond (video) and Anki (video) with First Aid Forward provide a supercharged set of tools and questions to solidify your understanding of critical topics. 

Step 2 Product Tour

Step 2

First Aid Forward's books, quizzes, and tools work together to help you prepare for exam day and beyond:

  • First Aid for the USMLE (high-yield, student-to-student guide): With an easy-to-follow bulleted presentation of must-know diseases and disorders, this one-of-a-kind study companion offers the most current overview of all core areas on the boards. 
  • Clinical Algorithms:  Develop and refine your clinical thinking skills to succeed in your clerkship, shelf exams, and Step 2. Organized by symptom, clinical vignettes pair with step-by-step flowcharts outlining the diagnosis and treatment of the illness and its relevant differential diagnoses.
  • Clinical Pattern Recognition: Tie clinical facts together in order to recognize patterns and build illness scripts for various high-yield conditions. Separate chapters on pediatrics, surgery and emergency medicine cover content highly represented on the Step 2 CK exam
  • Quizzes: Subject-level quizzes allow you to assess your strengths and weaknesses, while our in-text AI Reader quiz tool enables you to generate custom questions to check your understanding as you read and review. 
  • Note-Taking: Highlight, underline, circle, and box the text in 4 different colors, then export and search your notes as needed.   
  • Integrations:  The seamless integration of Boards and Beyond (video) and Anki (video) with First Aid Forward provide a supercharged set of tools and questions to solidify your understanding of critical topics. 

Quizzes

Two types of quizzes are available to you in First Aid Forward: 

  1. Subject-level questions: First Aid Forward's case-style ‘quick-hit’ questions  test your foundational knowledge of a particular topic to prepare you for the longer USMLE-style vignettes. Use these questions to assess your strengths and weaknesses in foundational concepts across subjects and organ systems. 
  2. AI Reader Quiz questions: Generate multiple-choice questions from highlighted text, tables, or sections in the main Step 1 and Step 2 books. These questions foster active engagement and help you test your understanding of key concepts.