Becoming a doctor requires hard work, patience, and passing the United States Medical Licensing Examination or USMLE, which is a three-step examination. If you are studying for the first step, you need the Kaplan USMLE Step 1 Lecture Notes, cited as the most frequently used comprehensive review among students. Along with First Aid, it covers all the required material for the step 1 approach. A new version of the Kaplan USMLE Step 1 Lecture Notes, shortened and known among students as simply KLN, is released every year. The USMLE tests students on traditionally defined principles that include anatomy, behavioral sciences, biochemistry, biostatistics, epidemiology, microbiology, pathology, pharmacy, and physiology. You also need to prepare for other interdisciplinary areas required and listed by the USMLE such as genetics, aging, immunology, nutrition, and cell biology. The Kaplan medical faculty teachers produce the Kaplan lecture notes and cover the USMLE required areas by separating them into seven books for easy consumption. Biochemistry, microbiology, and genetics are lumped together in one book. Kaplan combines other subjects and presents them in one volume, while pathology, physiology, and pharmacology have individual volumes. You can find a vast inventory of these notes on eBay.

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