shelf exams

When I first started third year, the Shelf exams wrecked me. I thought just doing UWorld and Anki would be enough — but I kept forgetting small details and struggling to connect topics across rotations. Eventually, I started condensing everything I learned from UWorld, NBME practice forms, and...

Hi everyone! I just wanted to start a new thread for internal medicine shelf studying. For those who have taken the IM shelf this year, how was it? What advice do you have for students who haven’t taken it yet? What books and resources did you use and what did you ultimately wind up scoring...

Hey SDN network, I am a MD 4th year medical student. I created the following google drive to save Clinicals students crucial study time. All the notes are updated routinely and marked by the update month/year. Hope this helps!! REMS drive Contains Shelf exam notes, High yield Derm review pdf...

I thought this would be helpful and/or reassuring for some people. Of note, my school has us take Step 1 after clerkships. I bought each practice shelf, i.e. Clinical Science Mastery Series, and did it under the simulation conditions on the NBME website. I will list the dates I took the practice...

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Hi all, Going to be writing CK in 2 weeks, and I've been doing the Clinical Mastery Series NBME's as I've seen people recommend on multiple threads throughout this forum. Quickly realized that nobody had been posting anything about how they were scoring on these CMS exams vs CCSE vs Actual...