First Aid Clinical Pattern Recognition for the USMLE Step 1 2e
The most trusted name in USME review―just ask any student!

First Aid Clinical Pattern Recognition for the USMLE Step 1 CK will help you master pattern recognition to excel on the exam and thrive throughout the medical school curriculum. You’ll find the information you need to tie clinical facts together to recognize patterns and build illness scripts for various high-yield conditions.

Organized by symptom to reflect exactly what you’ll see on test day, this groundbreaking guide provides overviews for more than 50 symptoms, discussing differential diagnosis and the principles that should inform your thinking about each symptom. Overviews are followed by Step 1-style vignettes for every potential diagnosis that may be included in the Step 1 exam. Then, each vignette is followed by the diagnosis―and competing diagnoses―along with explanations of why the patterns fit for the correct diagnosis.

Features include:

  • Vignettes containing classic history/physical exam and lab/test findings that would be observed in a typical presentation of the disease
  • Guiding principles provide important information (such as which diagnoses are common, which are rare, which are acute, which are chronic, etc.) to enhance the way you think about each symptom
  • An overview of differential diagnoses presents a list of conditions with similar presentations
  • Case vignettes highlight the typical presentation of a patient with the specified condition and include buzz words and findings that are likely to show up on the Step 1 exam

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First Aid Clinical Pattern Recognition for the USMLE Step 1 2e
The most trusted name in USME review―just ask any student!

First Aid Clinical Pattern Recognition for the USMLE Step 1 CK will help you master pattern recognition to excel on the exam and thrive throughout the medical school curriculum. You’ll find the information you need to tie clinical facts together to recognize patterns and build illness scripts for various high-yield conditions.

Organized by symptom to reflect exactly what you’ll see on test day, this groundbreaking guide provides overviews for more than 50 symptoms, discussing differential diagnosis and the principles that should inform your thinking about each symptom. Overviews are followed by Step 1-style vignettes for every potential diagnosis that may be included in the Step 1 exam. Then, each vignette is followed by the diagnosis―and competing diagnoses―along with explanations of why the patterns fit for the correct diagnosis.

Features include:

  • Vignettes containing classic history/physical exam and lab/test findings that would be observed in a typical presentation of the disease
  • Guiding principles provide important information (such as which diagnoses are common, which are rare, which are acute, which are chronic, etc.) to enhance the way you think about each symptom
  • An overview of differential diagnoses presents a list of conditions with similar presentations
  • Case vignettes highlight the typical presentation of a patient with the specified condition and include buzz words and findings that are likely to show up on the Step 1 exam

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First Aid Clinical Pattern Recognition for the USMLE Step 1 2e

First Aid Clinical Pattern Recognition for the USMLE Step 1 2e

First Aid Clinical Pattern Recognition for the USMLE Step 1 2e

First Aid Clinical Pattern Recognition for the USMLE Step 1 2e

(2nd ed.)

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The most trusted name in USME review―just ask any student!

First Aid Clinical Pattern Recognition for the USMLE Step 1 CK will help you master pattern recognition to excel on the exam and thrive throughout the medical school curriculum. You’ll find the information you need to tie clinical facts together to recognize patterns and build illness scripts for various high-yield conditions.

Organized by symptom to reflect exactly what you’ll see on test day, this groundbreaking guide provides overviews for more than 50 symptoms, discussing differential diagnosis and the principles that should inform your thinking about each symptom. Overviews are followed by Step 1-style vignettes for every potential diagnosis that may be included in the Step 1 exam. Then, each vignette is followed by the diagnosis―and competing diagnoses―along with explanations of why the patterns fit for the correct diagnosis.

Features include:

  • Vignettes containing classic history/physical exam and lab/test findings that would be observed in a typical presentation of the disease
  • Guiding principles provide important information (such as which diagnoses are common, which are rare, which are acute, which are chronic, etc.) to enhance the way you think about each symptom
  • An overview of differential diagnoses presents a list of conditions with similar presentations
  • Case vignettes highlight the typical presentation of a patient with the specified condition and include buzz words and findings that are likely to show up on the Step 1 exam


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781265503413
Publisher: McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date: 05/22/2025
Edition description: 2nd ed.
Pages: 512
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Asra Khan, MD, is associate professor of Clinical Medicine, course director of Essentials of Clinical Medicine, and M3/M4 Clerkship director of Internal Medicine at the, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago.

Joseph Geraghty, is an MD/PhD candidate in the Department of Neurology & Rehabilitation at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, and AAMC OSR liaison to the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME).


Stuart Slavin, MD, is senior scholar for Well Being, ACGME, and former assistant dean of Curriculum, professor of Pediatrics at St. Louis University in Missouri.

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