BRS Physiology Author: Amazon Prime Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering | Language: English | ISBN:
0781798760 | Format: EPUB
BRS Physiology Description
Written by highly regarded physiology professor Linda S. Costanzo, this revised Fifth Edition provides an excellent physiology review for students preparing for the USMLE Step 1. The book concisely covers key physiology principles and includes clinical correlations to emphasize connections between physiology and clinical medicine.
- NEW! Full-color design, flow charts, illustrations, and tables that summarize information for convenient review
- Each chapter is written in the popular Board Review Series (BRS) outline format and features bolded key terms to streamline your study
- Over 350 USMLE-style questions, answers, and rationales both electronically and in print reinforce your physiology review
- A FREE companion website offers an online E-book and an interactive question bank with all the questions from the book so you can customize your review tests!
- Series: Board Review Series
- Paperback: 328 pages
- Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Fifth, North American Edition edition (July 30, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0781798760
- ISBN-13: 978-0781798761
- Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
SHORT REVIEW:
PROS:
- very concise and easy to understand - high yield stuff here people. High yield stuff.
- goes into perfect amount of depth for board study
- great for use as a reference tool to complement first aid
~ (hint: some first aid chapters do a sucky job on phys - take notes in your FA copy from BRS in these chapters)
- just as great for use as review tool when studying for classes
- one thing that is over looked is the size - it's relatively small and very easy to tote around
- organization is great
~ (both in terms of the actual way the material is presented and in terms of aesthetics - very visually pleasing)
CONS:
- if you're looking for a lot of depth and detailed mechanisms, not your book
- could definitely use more figures.
- the practice questions are mostly first order and do not reflect the difficulty of board questions
~ (but that's what UWorld or kaplan qbank is for)
LONG REVIEW:
I really like this book and use it a lot for studying, both for boards and for classes. I'm taking my step 1 (USMLE) in about 4 months, so as I do board study, I like to refer to BRS phys for topics that I need refreshing on. It's great as a quick reference for when you need a memory jog on certain phys subjects. For example, when you get a qbank/Uworld question about the difference between a ventricular action potential and an SA nodal action potential and your like "omg, I forgot everything I ever knew about how the heart works," you can pull this thing out and easily find this (pg 70-71 btw).
I also find it very helpful for classes. I like to read through a new subject in BRS before we start that subject in class, or before I start studying for it.
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