6 week study plan

[BloodySurgeon]

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I would really appreciate advice on a 6 week study plan. I finished DIT, UWorld, and 1x pass through First Aid. My weakness is pharm and path. I am around a 210 at this moment and want to make a solid 6-week plan to get to a 240+.

I have a solid foundation in the basic sciences but I am lacking general understanding of pathology (I thought Kaplan path and gojian audios were horrible), I also read RR cover-to-cover and thought it was not helpful.

Should I purchase Pathoma or should I just try to do more problems and re-read my notes from Uworld and FA? Although 6 weeks is a lot, I believe these course and videos take up a lot of my day and prevent me from reinforcing facts in FA. If I don't use pathoma I would pretty much be spending that month re-reading first aid two more times with flashcards and problems.

 

[Staymed]

On the same boat as you. I purchased pathoma and in my experience pathoma is better organized. You can use rapid review for reference or to read through. I recommend pathoma if ur weak in path.

 

[alternatego]

I am using Pathoma first to understand the concepts, and then use RR to just fill out what's missing

 

[BloodySurgeon]

I just went on their website and listened to a free lecture on free radicals. I'm sure its informative, but that lecture was drier than a patient on atropine overdone. I think I am going to stick to my notes and BRS flashcards. DIT did a good job summarizing FA and I believe I did a good job summarizing UWorld so its 6 weeks of brute reinforcement with Path atlas and Wikipedia for pictures and clarifications.

 

[RedSoxSuck]

I just went on their website and listened to a free lecture on free radicals. I'm sure its informative, but that lecture was drier than a patient on atropine overdone. I think I am going to stick to my notes and BRS flashcards. DIT did a good job summarizing FA and I believe I did a good job summarizing UWorld so its 6 weeks of brute reinforcement with Path atlas and Wikipedia for pictures and clarifications.

IMO, RR is overkill. However looking at the pictures and perhaps reading the blue margin notes can be helpful.

Free lectures are talking about basic pathology such as definition of hyperplasia etc. So you shouldn't expect them to "fun". Also i would suggest getting on pathoma and learning/understanding it religiously. Pathoma is GOLD!!!

 

[missmedschool]

I would really appreciate advice on a 6 week study plan. I finished DIT, UWorld, and 1x pass through First Aid. My weakness is pharm and path. I am around a 210 at this moment and want to make a solid 6-week plan to get to a 240+.

I have a solid foundation in the basic sciences but I am lacking general understanding of pathology (I thought Kaplan path and gojian audios were horrible), I also read RR cover-to-cover and thought it was not helpful.

Should I purchase Pathoma or should I just try to do more problems and re-read my notes from Uworld and FA? Although 6 weeks is a lot, I believe these course and videos take up a lot of my day and prevent me from reinforcing facts in FA. If I don't use pathoma I would pretty much be spending that month re-reading first aid two more times with flashcards and problems.

If Path is your weakness then Pathoma is the way to go. Instead of Goljan RR I would do BRS Path (Goljan RR is tooo long for boards). Goljan audio isn't horrible, by the way, it's actually greatness. Everything on that audio is high yield. It depends though on whether you can actively listen while doing other stuff (washing dishes, working out, etc.), and it depends on whether you're the type of person who can learn from audio. If you're not any of these then of course Goljan audio probably isn't for you. It surprises me though how many new, high yield stuff I hear every day, and I've been listening to it all year sporadically.