I agree that most of the focus should be on things like pathophysiology, pathology, and pharm. However, I had a hell of a lot more cell biology, anatomy and genetics than I expected. Genetics was addressed very well in First Aid, and the hardest genetics questions that stuck out in my mind were all manipulations of hardy-weinberg, and QBank had great questions on inherited disease. Don't worry about crazy genetics stuff - you won't find that on step 1.
Cell Bio was not really addressed in first aid very well and it appeared on the step in a little more in detail than I expected and a lot was mixed in with general pathology. I'd say half of it was experimental/application type stuff but were answerable without any real memorized info. The other half was rote memorization, like cell compounds and organelles and desmosomes and stuff like that but nothing really too difficult.
Biochem was definitely well done in first aid, and with qbank there was more than enough coverage. Shouldn't be a problem.
Anatomy was a pain in the neck, some CT's and stuff. It's tough to study for, because there is just way too much anatomy and too little time, unless you give yourself say 7 weeks to study for the test. My buddies and I really didnt have a consensus as to which book was the best. First aid was decent and very consice.
It's always helpful to read these posts because they are real stories but you have to take them with a grain of salt - everyone has very different tests and very different strengths and weaknesses. If you want to buy 70 books to study, go ahead, but just understand how much more painful the whole process will be. Personally I thought first aid and BRS path did the job real nice and think that if you memorize the hell out of them from start to finish, you should score very well.
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