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Hello,
I am a DDS (dental) + PhD student and I would like to go into the 6 year long MD+Oral Surgery residency because I would like to become an oral surgeon scientist and a professor with NIH grants in dental school, medical school, and teaching hospital.
To get in to the MD+OMFS residency program, I need to take the NBME CBSE exam, which is shorter but covers the same material as the USMLE Step 1 exam. Many second year medical students take this exam to see where they stand about 6 months before the real Step 1 exam. According to the First AID Step 1 book, I need to score like 70~80 on CBSE which is about 210~220 on real Step1 or higher to be competitive for the OMFS. After I get into the OMFS residency program, I start with 2nd year medical students and take the real USMLE step 1 exam.
Some dental schools make students to take the same basic science courses as medical schools during the first two years and therefore scoring 210 or more is not that difficult as long as they are doing well in these schools. However, my school is focused on general dentistry so the basic science was much lighter and we focus much more on general dentistry hand skills aka "filling and drilling." Many of my school's "Elite" students were not able to score high enough to get into the OMFS so they are doing the internships.
I am in the middle of my second year and am entering my third year dental school. Then there will be several years of PhD. From this third year year, I have much more time than my first two years so I can allow about 4 hours every weekday and about 8~10 hours during weekends for the next 3~4 years.
I believe that these Elite students at my school could not score high cause they tried to memorize everything in the First Aid book and the UWorld like once. They did not have enough time to build the strong foundation that many medical students build during the first two years.
Therefore, I am thinking that I should build this foundation and then start tackling the concise book like First AID and test banks like UWorld, USMLERX and Kaplan. I learn better through lecture videos than just reading BRS books.
What online course material would be the best for someone like me who need to start from scratch? I found the Najeeb videos understandable cause these really start from the basics. But it was hard for me to understand pathoma after first few chapters cause they were too concise.
Thank you in advance and best wishes for your test preparation and career aspirations!
I am a DDS (dental) + PhD student and I would like to go into the 6 year long MD+Oral Surgery residency because I would like to become an oral surgeon scientist and a professor with NIH grants in dental school, medical school, and teaching hospital.
To get in to the MD+OMFS residency program, I need to take the NBME CBSE exam, which is shorter but covers the same material as the USMLE Step 1 exam. Many second year medical students take this exam to see where they stand about 6 months before the real Step 1 exam. According to the First AID Step 1 book, I need to score like 70~80 on CBSE which is about 210~220 on real Step1 or higher to be competitive for the OMFS. After I get into the OMFS residency program, I start with 2nd year medical students and take the real USMLE step 1 exam.
Some dental schools make students to take the same basic science courses as medical schools during the first two years and therefore scoring 210 or more is not that difficult as long as they are doing well in these schools. However, my school is focused on general dentistry so the basic science was much lighter and we focus much more on general dentistry hand skills aka "filling and drilling." Many of my school's "Elite" students were not able to score high enough to get into the OMFS so they are doing the internships.
I am in the middle of my second year and am entering my third year dental school. Then there will be several years of PhD. From this third year year, I have much more time than my first two years so I can allow about 4 hours every weekday and about 8~10 hours during weekends for the next 3~4 years.
I believe that these Elite students at my school could not score high cause they tried to memorize everything in the First Aid book and the UWorld like once. They did not have enough time to build the strong foundation that many medical students build during the first two years.
Therefore, I am thinking that I should build this foundation and then start tackling the concise book like First AID and test banks like UWorld, USMLERX and Kaplan. I learn better through lecture videos than just reading BRS books.
What online course material would be the best for someone like me who need to start from scratch? I found the Najeeb videos understandable cause these really start from the basics. But it was hard for me to understand pathoma after first few chapters cause they were too concise.
Thank you in advance and best wishes for your test preparation and career aspirations!
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