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| Anatomy Anatomy is about 15% of the test. There are a few very short and well focused reviews that are definitely worth reading. Gross anatomy: Reading your school textbooks won't take you very far. The questions are very USMLE specific and very clinically oriented (e.g. you have to know the anatomy behind rotator cuff injury, tennis elbow, to recognize major structures on a CT scan etc). Read High-Yield Gross Anatomy to understand and review these topics. Neuroanatomy: it is well represented. And again very clinically oriented. There are two review booklets that I liked and I recommend that you read them both. High-Yield Neuroanatomy is very well structured and focused. Clinical Neuroanatomy Made Ridiculously Simple has some additional clinical related material that I found useful for Step1. Embryology: very logical and easy to review. I believe BRS Embryology is the best book on the market. You could go over it in 2-3 days, and even it is a bit more than what you need, at least you make sure you will get the embryology questions right. High-Yield Embryology is a very short review of the information you find in BRS, structured in the same way (the author is the same). If you feel like you need color diagrams and some more explanations keep Langman's Medical Embryology nearby. Histology: since most of the histology questions are in a diagram format (e.g. you are asked to recognize structures on a micrograph or diagram) it is useful to review a medium-size histology atlas such as Wheater's Functional Histology. Cell Biology: I didn't feel very prepared in this area. There weren't many questions either during the actual test. All I did was read High-Yield Histology and Cell Biology, which although it is very short and easy to read did not provide enough information. |
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