Study time: 3.5 weeks during a light rotation
Step 1: 257/99
Step 2: 272/88
Study strategy:
UWorld x 1.3. First 60-70% of UWorld was by section in problem areas (Ob/Gyn, Renal, etc.). The last 30-40% was mixed sets of 44. Final: ~76%. Only read explanations of answers I got wrong, questions I didn't feel comfortable with, and questions I knew the answer to but didn't know the reason. Reset and then re-did 30% of UWorld about a week before. I stopped, because I was remembering too many of the questions.
First Aid x 1. Broad overview. Good for refreshing concepts, but probably not enough.
MGH Pocket Medicine x 1. The details on the diagnostic work up are pretty sweet. I flip through the green book in my spare time (yeah, it's weird; get over it), so I can't quite remember how much of the detailed management was on Step II. I do remember that I never had trouble with management questions, on UWorld or on the test.
UpToDate: For all recurrent themes on UWorld, I read the UpToDate article at least once. I thought that UWorld was too focused on the answer choices for the question and not enough of an overview of the topic. Pretty much, if you memorize the UWorld answer, you'll only be able to get questions that are variations of it on test day.
Practice tests:
Every 4-5 days. Write down tough questions and look them up later.
1: 258
2: 244 (that was concerning)
UWSA: 263
4: 272
3: 263
Test day: Finished almost every block with enough time to flip through questions from the beginning. Only did one time check at the halfway point to determine if I had to up my pace. Every block, there were ~5 questions that I had down to two answer choices. For most of these, I wasn't totally sure what the question was asking. For the remainder, I felt like I would do two things at the same time, and the question specifically asked what the next step was. I usually didn't mark these unless I thought I could reason it out. I did 2 blocks at a time with one short and two long breaks: Lunch between blocks 4 and 5, long break between 6 and 7.