Advice

[doctorfeelbad]

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I am IMG and have taken step 1 multiple time without success. I been practicing in the USA for over 4 years with a restricted lic. because I have a lic. from a US territory. I am sick and tired of taking the step 1 and I don't know what else to do. Everyone tells me to take a comprehensive course but I can't due to my full time working status and family life. I will apreciate any advice given. Thanks

 

[jfgavina]

maybe you just need to build up some knowledge base.. start with more compreensive books such as RR goljan, the brs series, and so on. then go through FA multiple times, kaplan and UW in your final preparation weeks. With 6/7 hours per day during 4 months and 12 hours/day in your last month you shall succeed.

 

[thepoopologist]

I am IMG and have taken step 1 multiple time without success. I been practicing in the USA for over 4 years with a restricted lic. because I have a lic. from a US territory. I am sick and tired of taking the step 1 and I don't know what else to do. Everyone tells me to take a comprehensive course but I can't due to my full time working status and family life. I will apreciate any advice given. Thanks

A decent excuse for someone taking it the 1st time, but you need to sacrifice one or the other at this point.

 

[doctorfeelbad]

I been practicing for over 5 years now and have 2 kids and a wife that don't work. It is not an excuse, you just can't wake up and tell your family "sorry I'll see you in 2-3 months". That is easy to say when you are single and with no family.

 

[Valadi]

There's no magic bullet here. You have to put in the work one way or the other and it will require some compromises with your family or a gross lack of sleep for several months while you prepare.

Review books are great if you have a decent foundation in the basic sciences, but for someone as far out as you are I'd recommend starting from square one. If you're practicing then take out time each night to review the medium Robbins chapters on whatever diseases you treated that day, the basic pharmacology of what you prescribed, and appropriate physiology texts that explain what went on. I'd keep first aid handy during this time to annotate it as you go along.

3 hours a day for 4-6 months, then DIT or a Kaplan course at the end should be able to get you through.