USMLE STEP 1 Lecture Notes

Correction List November 2009 Forest Green Covers

PHARMACOLOGY p. 16 Last line of page should read: For any other interval dosing, Equation 4 (below) is used p. 32 Question #13 Change CI to Cl in question stem Change answer choice B to read: Maintenance dose would be lower p. 32 Question #14 Change CI to Cl in question stem Change 20 g/L to 20 g/L in question stem p. 33 Question 17 Change CI to C1 in question stem p. 34 Answer #9 The correct answer is choice (A). The explanation is correct as written. p. 34 Answer #13 The correct answer is choice (B). The patient in the question has renal dysfunction which reduces renal clearance. This would necessitate a lower maintenance dose for medications such as acetaminophen. p. 35 Answer #16 The correct answer is choice (D). The last line should read: Dose = CO x Vd; 20 mg/L x 10 L = 200 mg p. 35 Answer #17 The explanation could alternatively read:

p. 70 Question #4 Change answer choice (D) to read Nicotinic agonists.

p. 73 Question #13 The table should appear as follows:

p. 73 Question #16 The answer choices should appear as follows:

p. 75 Questions 21-23 The table should appear as follows:

p. 76 Answer #4 In line 3, the drug benztropine is misspelled. In the last sentence, delete the phrase, not inhibition. p. 125 Answer #18 The correct answer choice is (A), Captopril (60-year-old-woman with diabetic nephropathy). The explanation is correct as written. p. 151 Under the heading Tolcapone and Entacapone Bullet 1 should read COMT converts L-dopa to 3-O-methyldopa, a partial agonist at dopamine receptors. p. 215 Answer #22 Second-to-last sentence should read Pneumocystis jiroveci, not Pneumocystis carinii. p. 288 Question #4 Question stem should read: The release of insulin from pancreatic beta cells would most likely be stimulated by which of the following? p. 300 Answer #3 The correct answer choice is (C). The explanation is correct as written. ANATOMY p. 175: Toward bottom of figure next to label Lumbar Splanchnic nerves Parenthesis should read (L1 L2)

p. 201: Under Thoracic duct Bullet 2 should read: "into the junction of the LEFT subclavian and internal jugular veins. p. 259: Top of page Bullet 2 should read: "through fibers derived from L1 and L2 (lumbar splanchnics)" IMMUNOLOGY/MICROBIOLOGY p. 115 Table at top of page Top row for C. diphtheriae, middle column should say DTaP p. 126 Table Third column: " atopy should be with selective IgA deficiency, not common variable immunodeficiency p. 160 Table Inflammatory bowel disease and Reiter's syndrome should sit in the row below, alongside HLA B27. PHYSIOLOGY p. 124 under "v wave" Bullet 2 should say: "Corresponds to T wave of the EKG."