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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 Contents: Full Collection Folder
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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