So, I thought it might be a cool idea to “interview” a handful of medical students who have conquered and destroyed Step 1, scoring a 250 or above. I find these posts extremely insightful, and at times, inspiring. Throughout the past year, I have enjoyed reading posts about peoples’ Step 1 experiences in which they share a comprehensive breakdown of how they achieved a certain score on the UMSLE Step 1 exam. When formulating a plan of any sort, it is always wise to seek the advice of elders – people who have “been there and done that”. (This is hyperbole… you should still make time for leisure).Īnyways, as the famous saying goes: “A goal without a plan is just a wish”. UWorld blocks will (or should) take the place of Fortnite. He loves the group and is thankful for all the help.Īnd yeah, we have developed this huge respect for anyone who appears for step 1 and passes it.It’s officially springtime, and you know what that means – it’s board season (for us Vitamin D deprived second year medical students).įirst Aid is our bible. He tells me- that we should give back to the group and we are working on that.
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My SP- Well he is thankful to Lord Krishna first, then his amazing wife and his cute son and his family and of course to the entire universe. (we know you will make excuses on this one- DON’T)Ĥ-Learn your weakness and be honest to yourself about your performanceAnd learn from other people’s experience.ĥ-Take help of others when it seems impossibleĪt last, I am thankful to my friends, family and this amazing group which helped me all through the way. Remember we are not the examples of inspiration. Select few and stick with them.(we have read this multiple times in other experiences, still we didn’t listen, we know you won’t too, still… ? )Ģ-Give NBMEs from the start. So we want highlight our mistakes:ġ-Do not use too many resources. There are lots of recipes for success but that is also true for failures. The only thing we regret is not doing it more than twice. FA and UW note will prepare you for the 80-85% of NBME and even the real exam. In last stages, you can’t review any other book. Memorizing facts and understanding concepts from FA, is the most crucial part of your prep. We used it while reading FA.įA- In last stages, this should be your only companion. Some times we thought we could have done pathoma just due to huge size of Goljan RR. Goljan RR-We used it, it’s a very very good book, at the same time exhaustive. They were absolute treasure for us to retain FA micro and pharm. Sketchy- We’re going to pay them for sure if and when we get moneeeeeeyy. Do it at least 2 times, one extra time you can go through the marked questions. Many people trash Kaplan unnecessary, you will not realise it but Kaplan does indeed lay the groundwork for you to pile more information. If any other subject is your weakness, you can use. We feel Physio, Biochem, Pharma and Behavioral science should be done with videos. Kaplan- We think some, not all, the subjects should be done from here. (love to Dr Barone– he made the tough stuff memorable for me) Resources: UW (pure gold) FA(pure gold) Goljan Textbook for path (will explain you in depth) Sketchy Pharm and Micro(these will make you golden- trust us) Kaplan Videos and Notes (they really lay down the ground work which you don’t even realize initially) Google (for everything else that USMLE threw at us) UW biostat review (it trashes your self confidence- maybe that’s how we learn) What we had was not called an action plan. Point being- it doesn’t matter where you are on the prep or how much delayed you are, if you work hard you will eventually make it. 60 break-less days of 10 hours each dragging of FA and of course my sp’s personalized notes and we both appeared for our exams.
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With that, we started our studies together over Skype. Two months ago, my study partner (SP) and I, came to the same conclusion that after 1 year of studying we were both losers- ergo didn’t have a good score on NBME to give exam and were in the last trimester of our Step 1 extension period. This is the one we made- that if we cross 240, we will do this.
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Why? Well because when you are at the losing end of life you tend to make irrational promises. This is USMLE Step 1 Experience shared BY Christina Yang And Uttamananda Gour Das.