This has been a collaborative project from the start. We gratefully acknowledge the thousands of thoughtful comments, corrections, and advice of the many medical students, international medical graduates, and faculty who have supported the authors in our continuing development of First Aid for the USMLE Step 1.
We provide special acknowledgment and thanks to the following individuals who made exemplary contributions to this edition through our voting, proofreading, and crowdsourcing platform: Huzaifa Ahmad, Ram Baboo, Kashif Badar, Nwamaka Bob-Ume, Paige Estave, Nathaniel Fitch, Panagiotis Kaparaliotis, Elaine Luther, Sarah Hamid Mian, Prashank Shree Neupane, Keyhan Piranviseh, Cindy Tsui, and Ankeet Vakharia.
For support and encouragement throughout the process, we are grateful to Thao Pham, Jinky Flang, and Jonathan Kirsch, Esq. Thanks to Louise Petersen for organizing and supporting the project. Thanks to our publisher, McGraw-Hill, for the valuable assistance of its staff, including Bob Boehringer, Christina Thomas, Jim Shanahan, Laura Libretti, and Jeffrey Herzich.
We are also very grateful to Dr. Fred Howell and Dr. Robert Cannon of Textensor Ltd for providing us extensive customization and support for their powerful Annotate.co collaborative editing platform (www.annotate.co), which allows us to efficiently manage thousands of contributions. Thanks to Dr. Richard Usatine and Dr. Kristine Krafts for their outstanding image contributions. Thanks also to Jean-Christophe Fournet (www.humpath.com), Dr. Ed Uthman, and Dr. Frank Gaillard (www.radiopaedia.org) for generously allowing us to access some of their striking photographs. Thank you to Dr. Brenda Zureick for her ophthalmology review. For faculty contributions, we thank Dr. Aditya Bardia, Dr. Christina Ciaccio, Dr. Stuart Flynn, Dr. Vicki Park, Dr. Jeannine Rahimian, Dr. Joseph Schindler, and Dr. Stephen Thung.
For exceptional editorial leadership, enormous thanks to Christine Diedrich, Emma Underdown, and Catherine Johnson. Thank you to our USMLE-Rx/ScholarRx team of editors, Linda Davoli, Jacqueline Mahon, Janene Matragrano, Erika Nein, Isabel Nogueira, Sally Rineker, Rebecca Stigall, Ashley Vaughn, and Hannah Warnshuis. Many thanks to Tara Price for page design and all-around InDesign expertise. Thank you to Ruthie Whittaker for assistance in reorganizing the Rapid Review section. Special thanks to our indexer Dr. Anne Fifer. We are also grateful to our medical illustrator, Hans Neuhart, for his creative work on the new and updated illustrations. Lastly, tremendous thanks to Rainbow Graphics, especially David Hommel and Donna Campbell, for remarkable ongoing editorial and production support under time pressure.
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