I have a couple questions! I was just browsing the housing situation throughout Lewisburg, and it doesn't seem like there are a ton of options. Were you easily able to find housing? Also, I saw you mentioned Lewisburg being a gem in another post; what is your favorite part about it? Last question, what is prep for boards like? Thank you!
Housing
My wife and I at the time didn't have any issues finding housing. I'd imagine there are even more options now than what we had to choose from. As long as you aren't super picky, you shouldn't have an issue finding housing. WVSOM should have a list of available housing in the area.
Lewisburg
Lewisburg is special to me and I know most of my classmates I graduated with would say the same. It's a quaint town with friendly people. Prices and cost of living are reasonable. For a small town, there are some great restaurants/bars/shops (Asylum, Food and Friends, Del Sol were my fave) between downtown Lewisburg and the Greenbrier Resort. I'm an avid cyclist, and riding around Lewisburg was some of the best cycling experiences I've ever had. Once you get a bit outside Lewisburg, the rolling hills, lack of traffic, and all-around beautiful scenery made for some great memories. My wife and I also trekked the entire 77.1 mile Greenbrier River Trail and we spent many days hiking/camping on that trail. There is also disc golf/more hiking and camping in the Greenbrier State Forest (myself and some classmates rented a cabin there for graduation, had a ton of fun).
Lewisburg had enough to do to satisfy things you wanted to do outside of school work, but not enough to distract you from what you're there for, and that's to study/do well in school.
Board prep
I won't go too deep into the nitty gritty of board prep but I'll go over a couple things. The two most important things you can do to set yourself up for a great board score is to 1) pay attention in class and do well on exams, and 2) Buy First Aid for the USMLE step 1 and start annotating it along with your courses (when you cover cards/pulm, go over that section in First Aid).
I didn't open First Aid until just before board prep time. If I could go back, I would slowly go through that entire book along with my course work and by the time board prep time would come around I would have already made one pass, or close to it, through that book. Another key thing is to go through a question bank. I used UWorld which I thought was way better than COMBANK. Get through UWorld at least once. If you take USMLE and then COMLEX, I would use the week between the two exams to go over OMT questions in COMBANK (which the school should give you for free).
I used DIT, thought it was meh. I started studying end of March and took the exam end of May/first week of June. I took USMLE first then one week later I took COMLEX. I studied 10-12 hours per day 6 days per week during that time. Some days I studied less and some I studied more.
So, recap. Resources I used in order of importance:
1) First Aid for USMLE Step 1
2) UWorld
3)Pathoma
4)Sketchy Micro (and now I think they have sketchy pharm)
5) DIT (wouldn't recommend honestly, wish I just spent more time on above)