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Other Suggested Textbooks, Atlas, and Dissector
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Online Practice Exam
BoardVitals is an interactive, high-quality, and effective board review tool available through the UCI Libraries subscription. BoardVitals is a collection of test banks that can help you to prepare for the USMLE Steps 1, 2, 3, and Shelf Exams. The USMLE Step 1 includes 3,304 questions in three difficulty levels (Hard, Moderate, and Easy) with 29 subject topics such as "Anatomy", "Behavioral Health", "Biochemistry", "Biostatistics and Epidemiology", etc. In Anatomy, it includes 327 questions.
Course Textbooks:
Online Practice Exam
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Core Textbooks:
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Online Practice Exam
BoardVitals is an interactive, high-quality, and effective board review tool subscribed to by the UCI Libraries. This is a collection of test banks that can help you to prepare for the USMLE Step 1, 2, 3, and Shelf Exams. For USMLE Step 1, BoardBitals provides access to 3,304 questions in three difficulty levels (Hard, Moderate, and Easy) with 29 subject topics including "Anatomy", "Behavioral Health", "Biochemistry", "Biostatistics and Epidemiology", etc.
Required Course Textbooks:
Online Practice Exam
BoardVitals is an interactive, high-quality, and effective board review tool available through the UCI Libraries subscription. This is a collection of test banks that can help you to prepare for the USMLE Step 1, 2, 3, and Shelf Exams. For USMLE Step 1, BoardVitals provides access to 3,304 questions in three difficulty levels (Hard, Moderate, and Easy) with 29 subject topics such as "Anatomy", "Behavioral Health", "Biochemistry", "Biostatistics and Epidemiology", etc. Biochemistry includes 164 questions.
Medical Genetics Course Textbooks
Online Practice Exam
*BoardVitals USMLE and Shelf Exam Prep [electronic resource]: This resource provides medical students with advanced board preparation and review resources, which include high-yield question banks and practice exams for USMLE and Shelf Exam. The NBME Shelf Exams question banks have been specifically adapted for the Medical School Student Level. They include thousands of multiple-choice questions (MCQ), vignettes, and long-form questions for use during clerkship rotations. For USMLE Step 1, Genetics includes 145 questions.
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*Exam Master Online [electronic resource]: USMLE and medical specialty board exams
Available online, access is restricted to UCI. Register individually on-site.
Note: When registering, be sure to use your UCI email. Otherwise, your registration will be denied. After the registration, please check your email to activate your access. For instruction, watch a short video here.
Immunology exam questions are available under two groups in Exam Master: Biomedical Sciences, USMLE Step 1 Medical Subject Review, and the USMLE Step 1 Board Preparation.
[Note: This module is designed to emulate the look and feel of the actual Step 1 exam in accordance with the USMLE blueprint. As with the actual exam, most questions are case-based, while a small percentage of General Principle, factual recall questions will be available.]
Select Biomedical Sciences, then Immunology (218 questions)
Select USMLE
Click on USMLE Step 1 Medical Subject Review
Click on the side triangle to expand the Basic Sciences (1916 questions)
Click on the side triangle to expand the Immunology (21 questions)
BoardVitals is an interactive, high-quality, and effective board review tool available through the UCI Libraries subscription. This is a collection of test banks that can help you to prepare for the USMLE Step 1, 2, 3, and Shelf Exams. For USMLE Step 1, BoardVitals provides access to 3,304 questions in three difficulty levels (Hard, Moderate, and Easy) with 29 subject topics such as "Anatomy", "Behavioral Health", "Biochemistry", "Biostatistics and Epidemiology", etc. For USMLE, Immune System includes 204 questions.
* = UC Irvine access only
Course Required Text:
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The week before the exam
The day before the exam
Online Practice Exam
BoardVitals is an interactive, high-quality, and effective board review tool available through the UCI Libraries subscription. This is a collection of test banks that can help you to prepare for the USMLE Step 1, 2, 3, and Shelf Exams. The USMLE Step 1 provides access to 3,304 questions in three difficulty levels (Hard, Moderate, and Easy) with 29 subject topics such as "Anatomy", "Behavioral Health", "Biochemistry", "Biostatistics and Epidemiology", etc. In USMLE 1, Physiology includes 343, and Cardiovascular System includes 435 questions.
Online Supplemental Texts
* = UC Irvine access only
Recommended Textbooks
Study Guides
Online Practice Exam
BoardVitals is an interactive, high-quality, and effective board review tool available through the UCI Libraries subscription. This is a collection of test banks that can help you to prepare for the USMLE Steps 1, 2, 3, and Shelf Exams. For USMLE Step 1, BoardVitals provides access to 3,304 questions in three difficulty levels (Hard, Moderate, and Easy) with 29 subject topics such as "Anatomy", "Behavioral Health", "Biochemistry", "Biostatistics and Epidemiology", etc.
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