LibGuides: Medical Board Exam Preparation: USMLE Step 2

Online First Aid USMLE Library

On December 31 2024 we will loose access to all of the First Aid USMLE ebooks. The publisher is closing down the online library platform we subscribe to these ebooks on and we are unable to subscribe to them on the new platform.

First Aid Test Preparation for the USMLE & Select Board Reviews This link opens in a new window
This ebook library includes First Aid for the USMLE Steps 1,2,3 as well as more specialty-focused FA titles.

Board Vitals Question Bank

BoardVitals: COMLEX, NCLEX-RN, PANCE, NBME Shelf Exams, and USMLE This link opens in a new window
Board Vitals is an exam preparation and review question bank for MD students (USMLE 1,2,3; NBME shelf exams), DO students (Comlex level 1), and nursing students (NCLEX-RN). The question bank includes up-to-date explanations and answers from the literature and gives detailed feedback and assessment of users' progress.

You must sign up with your @msu.edu email account and create a unique password to access the Board Vitals question banks. If you are physically present at MSU's East Lansing Campus you can use a non-@msu.edu account because you will be authenticated using the East Lansing campus IP address.

You will get a confirmation email with a link to activate your subscription. You must click this link to authenticate your account and get access to the free question banks. If you do not you will likely try and sign in and get a notification that you need to pay to access the question banks - which you do not for the NBME Shelf exams, Comlex Level 1, and NCLEX-RN banks which MSU Libraries has subscribed to.

Step 2 CK Resources: Print & Online

Links to PRINT books will take you to their record in the MSU Libraries catalog. From there you can see if it is available for checkout and/or request that it be sent to you if you are a distance user. ONLINE books can be read from anywhere in a web browser of your choice.