USMLE STEP 3 REVIEW BOOK | First Aid for the USMLE Step 3, Second Edition (First Aid USMLE)

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	• First Aid for the USMLE Step 3, Second Edition (First Aid USMLE) Tao Le, Vikas Bhushan, ... McGraw-Hill Medical, 2007 - 432 pages average customer review:based on 20 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great resource to review CCS-style mini cases

I used the First Aid for the USMLE Step 3 along with Kaplan Q-bank and did very well on the exam. This book was great to have handy and review when time permitted. I studied all of the CCS cases in the back of the book and found that to be the best resource. Every CCS case I had on the exam could be found in this book. I don't recommend this as your only study source, but it is EXCELLENT for the CCS case review.

USMLE STEP 3 REVIEW BOOK

This book is the most current resource reflecting the new changes to USMLE step 3. The book is up to date and contains all the major topics needed for step 3. Key features that I like about this book are:
New FRED format
100 ccs style mini-cases
Overall you can not go wrong, I used this series for step 1 and it was very helpful. I also used it for step 2 and it had many pearls that were on my board. STEP 3 was very useful!
Good luck to you and best wishes.
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Adam

Just finished taking step 3...I highly recommend First Aid, it is concise and, most importantly, the information in the text is relevant to the actual exam. It is easy to get through and I actually learned quite a bit reading it. Lastly, the description and tips it provides for the new interactive section of step 3 was invaluable, trust me.

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Best of several not great books for Step 3

Lots of people suggest using Crush Step 3, but I looked at it, felt it was a) too thick and b) the questions and topics were not that relevant to the actual exam (especially in retrospect).

First Aid step 3 continues the long tradition of First Aid books for the USMLE's. But let's face it, you need the books less and less, and they put less and less into them for each one. The best one is/was for Step 1. Step 2 book was useful. Step 3 book is somewhat useful. (Having said that, it was the only book I studied from, to the extent that I studied, and I got over 240...).

The book has an above average number of typos and appears to have been rushed out.

The highlight is the 100 mini cases that have differentials and lab tests that are useful for the CCS cases.

But overall, I think it is the best review book for step 3. Not too much extraneous information, no fake questions that are either too easy or too hard. Just a lot of good info. Some of it is, however, utterly and completely irrelevant to the exam. And they could have spent more time reviewing outpatient material such as derm, emergency room, and less about inpatient medicine, almost everybody who takes step 3 does not need a review of inpatient anything after internship :)

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