Approximately 63 topics have been added to the 2010 Edition of First Aid, and DoctorsInTraining.com has been teaching most all of them for a least two years and some of them since we started in 2002! If you want to know what will be in next year's edition of First Aid, take the Doctors In Training Step 1 Review this year. We will tell you what is high-yield before anyone else!
Below are the topics added to the 2010 edition of First Aid for the USMLE Step 1:
Health Care Payments- pg 58
Piaget's stages of cognitive development- pg 62
Enzyme terminology- pg 95
Sorbitol- pg 104
Catecholamine synthesis- pg 107
Hartnup disease- pg 108
Glycogen regulation by insulin and glucagon/epinephrine- pg 109
Truncus arteriousus- pg 123
GI embroyology- pg 132
Kidney Embroyology- pg 133
E. Coli- pg 153
Red rashes of childhood- pg 180
Bugs affecting HIV-positive adults- pg 182
Bugs affecting unimmunized children- pg 183
Bug hints (if all else fails)- pg 183
Ataxis-Telaniectasia- pg 212
Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)- pg 225
Varicose veins- pg 273
Vascular tumors- pg 276 (also pg 385)
Antihypertensive therapy- pg 276
Digestive tract histology- pg 304
Aorta and its branches- pg 305
Molecular pathogenesis of CRC- pg 324
Physiologic Neonatal Jaundice- pg 326
Biliary tract disease- pg 328
Thrombogenesis (formation of insoluble fibrin mesh)- pg 340
Pathologic RBC forms- pg 342
Normocytic, normochromic anemia- pg 344
Nonhemolytic normocytic anemia- ACD- pg 345
Intrinsic hemolytic normocytic anemia- G6PD- pg 346
Intrinsic hemolytic normocytic anemia- PK- pg 346
Intrinsic hemolytic normocytic anemia- HbC- pg 346
Platelet disorders- pg 349
Hereditary thrombosis syndromes leading to hypercoagulability- pg 350
Leukemia vs. lymphoma- pg 350
6-Thioguanine- pg 360
Causes of mononeuropathy- pg 370
Myoclonus- pg 397
Dystonia- pg 397
Central pontine myelinolysis- pg 399
Recurrent laryngeal nerve injury- pg 399
Eye pathology- pg 417
Vestibular apparatus- pg 421
Differential diagnosis of brain lesions- pg 426
Epilepsy drugs- Tiagabine- pg 428
Epilepsy drugs- Bigabatrin- pg 428
Epilepsy drugs- Levetiracetam- pg 428
Huntington's drugs- pg 433
Erickson's stages of psychological development- pg 437
SNRIs- pg 453
Calculation of reabsorption and secretion rate- pg 458
Potassium shifts- pg 462
Glomerular disorders- pg 465
Composition of Semen- pg 478
Diagnosing disorders of sex hormones- pg 484
Most common causes of anovulation- pg 487
Breast pathology- pg 492
Tamsulosin- pg 497
Pneumocioses- pg 509
Bosentan- pg 514
If you want to perform your very best on Step 1, you need the 2010 Edition of First Aid! The above new sections as well as new images and additional information in other sections are well worth the price of the new edition.
The Doctors In Training Step 1 Review will make sure you learn everything in the 2010 edition of First Aid in addition to the high-yield Step 1 information that is not in First Aid.
