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Get ready for USMLE® Step 1, your way
Get ready for USMLE® Step 1, your way
You asked, we delivered.
The result: a digital USMLE Step 1 companion that’s as unique as you are.
First Aid Forward’s™ interactive platform, updated in real-time by students taking the exams, lets you drive clarification of foundational scientific concepts and key facts for USMLE Step 1.
Across anatomy, biochemistry, physiology, pathology, and pharmacology, First Aid Forward lets you customize your learning journey and quiz yourself on topics so that you can embed scientific concepts crucial to not just the exam, but the lifelong practice of medicine.
Revise, practice and test your science knowledge for medical school and beyond.
The First Aid content you trust.
The most up-to-date First Aid frameworks and content to support your USMLE Step 1 preparation as well as your medical education. Now optimized for a premium digital experience.
Patient cases for learning in a clinical context.
More than 350 updated cases prepare you to anticipate commonly tested concepts on the USMLE Step 1 and for your success in your medical career.
Patient cases for learning in a clinical context.
More than 350 updated cases prepare you to anticipate commonly tested concepts on the USMLE Step 1 and for your success in your medical career.
Build your foundational
medical knowledge.
Actively learn and reinforce must-know, high-yield concepts with hundreds of questions that allow you to focus on what matters.
First Aid Forward - Step 1
Our USMLE Step 1 platform offers the same high-yield content students have come to find in our First Aid book series but with continually updated material, advanced note-taking, audio reading & search capabilities and subject-level quizzing & performance tracking – boosting your exam prep experience.
Frequently Asked Questions
Access First Aid Forward between classes or in the comfort of your home. The flexibility in your access to the most well-respected and sought-after USMLE prep content makes your prep experience seamless and minimizes unnecessary kinks and hassles.
First Aid Forward is the only premiere digital learning resource built directly from the highly revered First Aid content – the most recommended USMLE prep resource available. Written by trusted authors, designed by digital learning experts, and shaped by students like you who have taken the USMLE boards. First Aid Forward enhances your preparation experience with expanded content and functionalities that includes:
- First Aid Content: All the essential medical topics and concepts necessary for USMLE success, including detailed explanations, diagrams, tables, and mnemonics. A one-stop reference for you, with the key information needed to conquer the exam and excel in your medical studies.
- Foundational Knowledge Quizzes (Quick-Hits): High-yield, quick-hit quizzes test your foundational medical knowledge core subjects and organ systems. Take a quiz in tutor mode while studying to review answers in real-time or in test mode to identify your strengths and weaknesses and narrow your study focus.
- First Aid Clinical Cases, Pattern Recognition and Algorithms: Strengthen your clinical decision-making skills while contextually reinforcing the high-yield information found in the core First Aid books. The cases are designed to reflect the types of common clinical scenarios encountered on the USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 exams, thereby helping you apply concepts and facts clinically so that you can better retain the information.
You asked for it, so we listened! First Aid has now gone digital to support the medical students of today and evolve with the needs of future students. Like the books, we have involved medical students like you throughout our entire development process and built an integrated product that helps you build your foundational medical knowledge. Based on extensive research, we learned from students like you that, while they heavily rely on the First Aid books for USMLE prep, there were several key things they wanted from a digital First Aid experience:
- Smart search to access topics quickly.
- Built-in quizzing to ensure you know and understand the First Aid topics.
- Additional content to supplement the core First Aid book content.
- Highlighting and note-taking to allow you to isolate self-designated content and use it as a study resource.
Even though First Aid Forward has many more features, it was upon these four main ideas that the product was built.
First Aid Forward is different from the books because it incorporates new and expanded First Aid content to support your USMLE studies all in one place. You get the classic First Aid content along with Clinical Cases and Clinical Pattern Recognition content so you can clinically apply your learnings.
It will also be continuously updated throughout the year with new content and product features.
This is NOT a replacement for the book, you can use them side by side. It’s made to support how you like to study -- customizable and flexible.
Learn more about how to study with First Aid Forward on our How to Study page!
First Aid Forward quizzes are case-style ‘quick-hit’ questions. They are created to test your foundational knowledge of a particular topic to prepare you for the longer USMLE-style vignettes. Use these questions to assess your strengths and weaknesses in foundational concepts across subjects and organ systems. Your performance on these questions will not correlate to how you perform on USMLE vignette questions.
We offer access to PayPal Pay in 4, which allows you to pay over 4 interest-free payments, and other payment options.
Send us an email at firstaidforwardsupport@mheducation.com.
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Get ready for USMLE Step 2, your way. First Aid Forward is your digital companion in preparing for clinical topics from diagnosis to management.
For Your Ongoing Learning Journey
USMLE Step 2 , Link will open in a new tab
Get ready for USMLE Step 2, your way. First Aid Forward is your digital companion in preparing for clinical topics from diagnosis to management.