Advice for NBOME shelf exams

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My first one is pediatrics. My school does a system where they have 8 weeks of IM and surgery; the rest of the rotations are 4 weeks. IM and surgery may be split, depending on when you're scheduled. We don't take the shelf for IM or surgery until the end of the 8 week block.

Been doing UWorld and OME since day 1. Also bought "Case Files: Pediatrics". Any other advice? Besides praying to AT Still, of course.

 

[AlteredScale]

My first one is pediatrics. My school does a system where they have 8 weeks of IM and surgery; the rest of the rotations are 4 weeks. IM and surgery may be split, depending on when you're scheduled. We don't take the shelf for IM or surgery until the end of the 8 week block.

Been doing UWorld and OME since day 1. Also bought "Case Files: Pediatrics". Any other advice? Besides praying to AT Still, of course.

Case files is okay for certain specialties like FM and Psych. Some of the other one's were weird.

Each NBOME shelf has some OMM. If you don't care then you can wing it with that. If you are an anxious fellow like I am, you can either read the green book which sucks since it's not specialty focused, or you can buy comquest question bank which has the best representation of question style on the actual shelf + omt. I split it with another person to cut the cost.

 

[NotYou20]

IMO the shelfs build upon level 1 material and include a fair bit of it as well. If you did well on it, OME, UWorld, and reading up on your patients should get you into honors range. Reading up on patients is really important. Figure out why they're being managed how they are and what kind of things would change that management.

I don't think the shelfs had much OMM. Often they'll include a viscerosomatic or Chapman's point but they weren't necessary to understand what the question was getting at. It was pretty rare to have a straight up OMM question, not worth studying for imo.

 

[AlteredScale]

IMO the shelfs build upon level 1 material and include a fair bit of it as well. If you did well on it, OME, UWorld, and reading up on your patients should get you into honors range. Reading up on patients is really important. Figure out why they're being managed how they are and what kind of things would change that management.

I don't think the shelfs had much OMM. Often they'll include a viscerosomatic or Chapman's point but they weren't necessary to understand what the question was getting at. It was pretty rare to have a straight up OMM question, not worth studying for imo.

My shelves had very little Level 1/basic science information and it required a knowledge of preventative medicine guidelines as well as algorithms within OME/UpToDate. It didn't take me know if a bug was positive for silver stain to know it was legionella since I had a clinical "script" of the bug. To each their own I guess.