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Had 6 months off since graduation. Decided to study an hour a day for step 3. Yesterday I took the first day, and today I took 2nd day. OMG, I shouldve trained more with the software for the CCS. For the CCS portion, I only studied for 4 days. I read alot of the cases and I understood how to place orders from study uworld and CrushStep3, but to study as many cases as I did, I ended each practice case early. I failed to study what to do when the popup came up. Good god, that POPUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1-For the first 3 cases, whenever the 2 min popup came up, I deleted most of my orders, and put in new ones like consults because I assumed the patient got better. It wasn't until the 4th case I read the popup more clearly when it said place orders for "CURRENT situation". From then onwards I kept the orders (like Oxygen lol), and added consults. How the hell did I not learn about the popups???????
2-Probably killed 3 patients. I didn't understand what was wrong and why the pts didnt get any better, until a few minutes before the end I finally got it. I quickly put in EXTREMELY IMPORTANT consults (for both of them), and as soon as I placed order, the popup came up (again for both of them). I have no idea if the consults went through!!! If the consults don't count when the popups come, then I killed 3 patients (one of them being a child, and which is destroying me mentally).
3-I forgot how to treat one of the most important/commonly tested life-threatening problems that probably every medical student knows about (has to do with cardiopulmonary system). I don't want to break the rules, so I'm not gonna say what the diagnosis was, but dear god, if an attending found out, I'd never hear the end of it.
4-I did a procedure on a patient while they were home.
5-Made a patient go home, then come back to the office 4 times in the same day.
6-monitored only a few of the patients because again, I assumed the popups meant either they died, or they great.
7-Thankfully I remembered all my cases, and I'm searched them up through uworld, and CrushStep3. I'm noticing now that I forgot to do aloooooooooooooooooot of stuff.
Fingers crossed I pass. I'm glad to have gotten it out of the way, I just wish I studied more for the CCS cases.
For the MCQs: I only used uworld step2+3, and I felt good (most of the material was still fresh in my head as I took step 2 recently). Just make sure you read the rapid review portion of step 1.
Goodluck everyone
1-For the first 3 cases, whenever the 2 min popup came up, I deleted most of my orders, and put in new ones like consults because I assumed the patient got better. It wasn't until the 4th case I read the popup more clearly when it said place orders for "CURRENT situation". From then onwards I kept the orders (like Oxygen lol), and added consults. How the hell did I not learn about the popups???????
2-Probably killed 3 patients. I didn't understand what was wrong and why the pts didnt get any better, until a few minutes before the end I finally got it. I quickly put in EXTREMELY IMPORTANT consults (for both of them), and as soon as I placed order, the popup came up (again for both of them). I have no idea if the consults went through!!! If the consults don't count when the popups come, then I killed 3 patients (one of them being a child, and which is destroying me mentally).
3-I forgot how to treat one of the most important/commonly tested life-threatening problems that probably every medical student knows about (has to do with cardiopulmonary system). I don't want to break the rules, so I'm not gonna say what the diagnosis was, but dear god, if an attending found out, I'd never hear the end of it.
4-I did a procedure on a patient while they were home.
5-Made a patient go home, then come back to the office 4 times in the same day.
6-monitored only a few of the patients because again, I assumed the popups meant either they died, or they great.
7-Thankfully I remembered all my cases, and I'm searched them up through uworld, and CrushStep3. I'm noticing now that I forgot to do aloooooooooooooooooot of stuff.
Fingers crossed I pass. I'm glad to have gotten it out of the way, I just wish I studied more for the CCS cases.
For the MCQs: I only used uworld step2+3, and I felt good (most of the material was still fresh in my head as I took step 2 recently). Just make sure you read the rapid review portion of step 1.
Goodluck everyone