BRS Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Board Review Series)
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| Manufacturer: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |
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| List Price: $42.95 |
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A popular volume in the Board Review Series, BRS Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is designed to help medical students study for the USMLE Step 1. While technically not a textbook, many students use BRS books as course books. Chapters are written in an outline format and include pedagogical features such as bolded key words, figures, tables, algorithms, and highlighted clinical correlates. A review test with 20 USMLE-style questions and answers follows each chapter. In addition, there is an end-of-book comprehensive exam. A companion Website includes questions and images from the book as well as fully searchable text.
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- ISBN13: 9780781798754
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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 Questions are full of errors |
| Review Date: July 27, 2007 |
| Reviewer: S. Stampfer, New York, NY United States |
The material this goes through is great, concise, displayed well, properly bolded, and with good diagrams. However, the questions and answers/explanations are full of errors. I've done over a third of the questions in the book and I've come across more than two dozen errors. Some of them are huge, to the point where it says stuff in the answer key that completely contradicts a sentence in the lesson part of the chapter (if you have the book, see Ch 9 Question 6 for example). This actually happens about once per chapter. Then, in other cases, the answer key mixes up the letters, so you think you got the question wrong but then read the explanation and it turns out you're correct (and vice versa).
Of course, there might be more errors in the body of the book that I don't pick up on because I read that part first and accept it as fact. However, I think the material covered in the lesson section is solid; it's just the question section that it WORTHLESS. If you already have practice questions for the boards and just need a good review (or want to place out of biochem/mol bio in med school), then this is probably the book for you. If you want a book that gives you a lesson plan with questions to prepare you for the boards, this is NOT that book. |
Littered with ERRORS
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| Review Date: October 1, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Med Student, |
| I agree with the other reviewer - this book is LITTERED with ERRORS, particularly in the question/answer sections. |
worthless
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| Review Date: March 21, 2008 |
| Reviewer: D. Baudoin, |
| The questions on this book are not consistant with questions on NBME shelf exams. I used this book to study, consistantly scored very well on the end of chapter and the comprehensive eams in the book, yet I was dumbfounded by the questions on the NBME biochem shelf exam. The material tested on the exam was the same material covered in this book, however, the emphasis was on the wrong things. |
Priceless
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| Review Date: November 15, 2007 |
| Reviewer: RG, Red Neck Land |
This is a good book regardless of the errors. I used it before each lecture to give me a good QUICK and concise run down on the topic at hand. The clinical correlations in the body of text, next to the relevant topic was more helpful than the previous editions. Many of the clinical correlations I remembered on the NBME test because of this book.
Just remember, this isn't a hardcore peer reviewed textbook. So there are probably some errors. I do remember a few questions that were incorrect, but I did not find it much worse than any other textbook I have used.
Overall, I wish I had this from day 1 of my molecules to cells portion of med school, instead of day 20. I say that because I spent so much time reading a lengthy textbook instead of this. It is worth it's weight in gold if you are NOT a chem/bio major and you need to learn biochem in a hurry.
I would recomend Lippincott's Illustrated review in case you don't like the BRS series. However, it doesn't have as many clinical correlations as the BRS does. |
This book is worthless
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| Review Date: March 18, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Adam G. Quinn, |
| I am speechless about this book. It is so riddled with errors that the questions cannot possibly represent Boards questions. The questions are too detailed, contain too many calculations, and does not adequately prepare you for the Boards. This book is worthless. The errors are prolific. The authors should be ashamed. This was the most epic waste of my education to date. |
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