[Music] [Applause] [Music] My name is Lauren, and I am a third, almost fourth-year medical student. If you are new here, and if you're not new, then welcome back. Today, if you can't tell by the title, I am bringing you a video that honestly is a med student's dream. I am so excited and honestly honored to be able to say that this video is sponsored by McGraw Hill Education. Thank you so much for sponsoring this video. If you don't know by name who McGraw Hill Education is, then you'll definitely know by the products that they've made. They are the makers of the med student Bible. Actually, let me go grab mine so you can really see the visual. This is the med student Bible that I'm talking about. These are the makers of First Aid, and they are also the makers of the very popular resource Boards and Beyond. They have launched a new resource in 2023 called First Aid Forward. First Aid Forward is a digital USMLE study resource that

brings the trusted high yield and student-reviewed first aid content along with targeted quizzes onto an immersive digital platform that students can tailor to their unique needs, better positioning them to master the USMLE content. The overall goal for First Aid Forward is to enhance classroom performance, help students pass USMLE exams, and excel in clinical rotations. I have been testing out First Aid Forward for about a week, and I'm excited to show you a little demonstration so you can see everything that it can do. Okay, so I have my First Aid Forward opened up here, and the first thing that I want to show you is the clinical knowledge textbook. So, the clinical knowledge textbook assists you in strengthening your medical foundation. You can see here it's broken down by organ system and then disease, which is so helpful. Let's go to lupus, for example. So, you can see here that there's a definition and then things that you'll see during the history and physical, and then some very helpful mnemonics of symptoms that can help you recall, and even some related

labs and antibodies and treatments. Another one that I really liked was therosis, which if you've seen my hepatology video, you know that I think therosis is a really interesting disease. You can see there's figures. This one is so helpful: tables and charts. Another thing that I wanted to show you that is applicable to all the textbooks is you can annotate anything like to your heart's desire. I am not someone who can write in a physical textbook; it just pains me. But digital annotations are perfect because they just don't look messy. You can see here I have underlined this. You can highlight anything, and then you have all of these options here. I've done a few more annotations as we scroll down for spontaneous bacterial peritonitis. I added a little note to myself: most common infections are from G negative rods. I've highlighted hepatic and copath, and I've boxed this section right here on treatment for a powder renal syndrome. I'll just show you an example. You can circle things, you can change the color.

you can do whatever you want to do, and because I just love sorosis, you can even add a placemark for a page, so I placemark sorosis, and I can always go back to these little tabs, click something that I'm struggling with, or something that I just want to keep reviewing over and over again, and easily get to it without going through the table of contents. Another thing that I love about this textbook is the rapid review. I actually used the rapid review in this book the day before taking step one, so it's nice to see that they've continued on with the rapid review in first aid forward. You can see the one side kind of has not really a question, but along the lines, and then the other side is, of course, the answer. I think it's really great because you can also cover one side of the screen just to kind of make it more of an active recall review. And then the last thing that I think is really cool in this book is that it took your top-rated review resources broken down by specialty, right?

now I'm in my family medicine rotation, so let's click family medicine. It's broken down by specialty and then further broken down by grades based on med student reviews, which I think is so helpful if you're feeling lost on additional resources that you can use during your rotation. The next thing that I want to show you is the clinical algorithms textbook. This helps you build differential diagnoses, decide which labs and imaging to order, and even which specialist that you need to refer your patient to based on their symptom presentation. This, for me, is where first aid forward shines and stands out as a unique resource. I found a couple of resources that break down clinical reasoning, but none to this level of detail. So, I'm going to go back to sorosis. Sorry, not sorry, but I just think because it's so complicated, it's a really good one to visualize. Someone comes in with the SES, and then you can really break down based on how the presentation and how their results unfold what to do next, especially with something as complicated as like a

parenthesis and a sack. It can all get very confusing, and I think that this chart really breaks things down so well. It could even tell you to refer to Cardiology if they're having a heart issue along with their AES. If you hear any noises, Vodo is going crazy in the background. If the SAG showed low protein, get an abdominal ultrasound with dopplers. I mean, it's just really, really cool. And then it further goes on to break down the terosis complications aside from AES. So, the first section is all about AES, and then it talks about spontaneous bacterial partis and all of these things. Another one that I really like that I'm constantly mixing up is meningitis, trying to remember how to analyze cerebral spinal fluid results will forever be lost on me. I try to learn it every time and have yet to do so successfully. So, I love this chart because it breaks things down based on symptoms, of course, presentation, and then tests you should run, and then it even goes into those CSF results that are so

confusing. Is anyone else confused by those? Like, I just simply cannot remember them, but maybe I don't have to because this will tell me from now on. The third textbook is the clinical pattern recognition textbook. Maybe textbook isn't the right word. It's kind of a textbook, but it's more so an online resource. I feel like textbook sounds kind of mundane, but everything in here is really high-yield stuff. In the clinical pattern recognition, you get your stereotypical question vignettes and then conditions with similar presentations, tests, management, and you even get some mini-cases. This is HIV and AIDS opportunistic infections. This is a really beautiful table that is basically a rapid review table. And then if I go to the next page, here's everything that I was talking about. So, this is your stereotypical clinical vignette for someone who comes in with an acute HIV infection. You can click on the additions of similar presentations, tests you should run, everything along those lines. It's so helpful. And then you can even come down

here and work on some mini cases that are related to opportunistic infections, of course. So, this first one is on Mac, and I think you can try to cover the name with a piece of paper or your hand or whatever. So, cover this, and then you can read the key findings if you want to try to quiz yourself this way. Another one that I really liked was the skin changes. This is so helpful in something like dermatology because you have to really see pictures of things and be able to tell them apart. Such a difficult skill. So, if I go to the next page, again, the whole breakdown, the case, similar conditions, and then some more mini cases. This is definitely a great one to try to quiz yourself on because you really should be able to look at the picture and the presentation and know what it is. If you feel like you're having trouble finding a topic or just want to get to something quickly, you can, of course, use the search bar here. Let's type in, Is there an organ system that I usually neglect? The kidneys. Let's type in.

nefritis, nefritis, which is such a broad word, by the way, to put in this search bar. Each textbook has in-fresh results depending on what I'm trying to look up about nefritis and in what form I want to see it. Super cool. And then the last thing that I want to talk about for First Aid Forward is their question bank. So, I've only had First Aid Forward for about a week, so I haven't gotten through all of the questions yet. But in that time, I've done a little bit over 100 questions, and you can see here it's broken down by organ system, which is always so helpful because we all have our weak organ systems. Mine happens to be cardiology. If you click on something, it can show you the high topics in a specific organ system. My camera overheated, but we're back. So, the question vignettes are short, which is really good for rapid quick review. I got through 60 questions today way quicker than I would if the vignettes were longer, which is nice. One downfall that I

found with the quizzes are. There's no pictures that I've seen in the first 100 plus questions. So just with questions like Derm or infections that have some sort of visual lesion, it's hard to fully get the diagnosis just based on the description of the lesion rather than seeing the lesion. And the questions are also not randomized, which is actually how nbme practice exams are. If you've ever noticed, they're not randomized, they're kind of in sections. But sometimes I think that because it's not randomized, it can give the answer away. Like if there's three questions in a row on B12 deficiency, if by the third question I don't know the answer because the last B12 deficiency, I feel like it's probably B12 deficiency again, you know? And you can't go backwards. But I think everything else with the quizzes is great. This is a new resource. I don't think everything is perfect yet, but I think they're on their way. Another first aid resource that I've used in the past, especially preparing for step one, was

scholarly RX. So, I just wanted to compare the two. I think First Aid Forward provides more ways to learn, as well as the questions are in a shorter form, more like NBME exams. So, I think this is actually more suited, especially in my time of being a third year going into fourth year. And again, this just came out a couple of months ago, so it's so new. But I would also love to see this as an app because I could just imagine myself seeing a patient and then quickly going to the side and going through the clinical algorithms and like getting my plan together and then looking like the perfect medical student. So, for my final thoughts, I definitely recommend First Aid Forward. I think it's a great resource to use at various stages of your learning journey in medical school. If you're in your first and second year and still building a foundation of medical knowledge, I think both the clinical knowledge and the pound recognition would be really helpful for you. And then if you're in your third or fourth year like me or even an intern or

even a resident. I mean, we never stop learning. This is a lifelong learning career. They've told us that a million times. I think the clinical algorithms will be amazing to use on the wards, while the pattern recognition and question bank will be great for passive and active recall. Today, I specifically was demonstrating the Step Two subscription of First Aid Forward, since I'm preparing to gear up my studying to take Step Two in the next couple of months. But there's also a subscription specifically for Step One, if first and second-year students would find that more helpful, which I imagine that you would. I'd recommend checking that out. So, if First Aid Forward sounds like something you'd find helpful during your medical school exams, your USMLE board exam, or your clinical rotation, I'll leave a link in the description so you can check it out and even buy it. I think it is such an amazing resource, and thank you again, McGraw-Hill Education and First Aid, for sponsoring this video. I'm so excited about this resource and this sponsorship, so I'm really appreciative. And if you

like the video, then like the video. Leave any questions or comments you have about the first day forward in the comment section, and I will answer them or provide any resources if I somehow don't know the answer. Subscribe if you haven't already subscribed, and I will see you all in the next video next week. Thank you so much for watching [Music]. Bye.

THE BEST NEW RESOURCE FOR PASSING STEP 1 & 2?? | FIRST AID FORWARD HONEST REVIEW

THE BEST NEW RESOURCE FOR PASSING STEP 1 & 2?? | FIRST AID FORWARD HONEST REVIEW

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