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First Aid Forward: Step 2

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Step 2 Overview

 

Learn everything you need to know about First Aid Forward - Step 2 in this comprehensive overview video:

  • 0:00 Introduction to First Aid Forward
  • 0:40 Signing In
  • 2:24 Navigating the Home Page
  • 5:14 Reading and Annotating Content
  • 10:20 Subject Quizzes
  • 13:19 Troubleshooting

Full Transcript: https://app.box.com/s/a7qhvcaq3rhiqzh...

Step 2 Content

The most comprehensive and up-to-date high-yield review available for the USMLE® Step 2 CK—completely revised and better than ever!

The expert author team that guided students to success on the USMLE® Step 1 presents the latest edition of this skill-sharpening review for the USMLE® Step 2 CK. 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. Included is a host of learning tools, from key facts and mnemonics to full-color illustrations and proven test-taking strategies--everything students need to pass the exam with flying colors.

First Aid Clinical Algorithms for the USMLE Step 2 CK was designed to help you develop and refine your clinical thinking skills―preparing you for success in your clerkship and on the Step 2 CK exam. This new addition to the First Aid™ series uses an algorithmic approach that allows you to methodically walk through the diagnostic decision making process.

The content is organized by symptom to reflect how information will be presented in an actual clinical setting. Clinical vignettes focusing on specific illnesses are followed by step-by-step flowcharts outlining the diagnosis and treatment of the illness and its relevant differential diagnoses.

First Aid Clinical Pattern Recognition for the USMLE Step 2 CK provides the information you need to tie clinical factstogether in order to recognize patterns and build illness scripts for various high-yield conditions. This essential resource features classic textbook-style vignettes of syndromes and cases commonly tested on the USMLE 2 CK. You'll learn how to determine the next best step, perform a patient workup, and effectively manage patient care. By presenting context that ties different symptoms, signs, and conditions together, the text encourages you to consider a differential diagnosis for a chief complaint, explore how different conditions may be related to one another, and more.

First Aid Forward quizzes are case-style ‘quick-hit’ questions. They are created to 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. Your performance on these questions will not correlate to how you perform on USMLE vignette questions. 

Over 1000 active learning questions cover high-yield subjects including: 

• Cardiovascular
• Dermatology
• Endocrinology
• Epidemiology
• Gastrointestinal
• Gynecology
• Health Science Systems
• Hematology
• Multisystem
• Musculoskeletal
• Neurology
• Obstetrics
• Pediatrics
• Psychiatry
• Pulmonary
• Renal