Board Exam Prep?

[ToKingdomCome]

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How much of board exam prep is self-study/ a student's ability?

I always here that a school can "prepare you for boards well"

How do schools really do that? Through curriculum? resources? If anyone can chime in can they be specific as to how they believe the school is able to do so? For those who believe so, it's not as easy as just picking up the board prep and self studying?

I mean if a school is historically does well on boards such as DMU, how much is that based on self-selection for a student's ability to matriculate at the school in the first place rather than a school's curriculum per say?

 

[SLC]

53.65% is attributable to the school.

46.35% is self study dependent.

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[SLC]

53.65% is attributable to the school.

46.35% is self study dependent.

😉

 

[ToKingdomCome]

53.65% is attributable to the school.

46.35% is self study dependent.

😉

So explain to me how SOMA prepared you "well" for the school

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[Goro]

My own students' perfromance on COMLEX closely match how they do in our curriculum. Our A students destroy COMLEX and USMLE, and our C students barely scrape by. Those who have 1 or more failures in our curriculum generally have trouble passing boards...fortunately, they are very very few out of our student body.

That said, my students will do a lot of self-study in the time leading up to COMLEX. It's hard to completely remember your first years coursework when you're plugging away at excelling in year 2.

Fro my own school, and from colleagues at other COMs, you get out of med school what you put into it.

How much of board exam prep is self-study/ a student's ability?

I always here that a school can "prepare you for boards well"

How do schools really do that? Through curriculum? resources? If anyone can chime in can they be specific as to how they believe the school is able to do so? For those who believe so, it's not as easy as just picking up the board prep and self studying?

I mean if a school is historically does well on boards such as DMU, how much is that based on self-selection for a student's ability to matriculate at the school in the first place rather than a school's curriculum per say?