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So far I've ordered First Aid, Pathoma and the Lange Pharmacology cards. UWorld is in the cards and I might order USMLERx or the Kaplan QBank to have some questions to do over the year.

I also ordered a lifting belt recently. My credit card is weeping.
 
IncognitoGuy said:
So far I've ordered First Aid, Pathoma and the Lange Pharmacology cards. UWorld is in the cards and I might order USMLERx or the Kaplan QBank to have some questions to do over the year.

I also ordered a lifting belt recently. My credit card is weeping.
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Picmonic is a great band aid to have for exams. Sketchy Micro is more of the same. I think they're terrible to use as a primary source because they don't teach depth of understand as much as quick fix mnemonics, still a good back up.

I bought UW and RX recently. So much pain.
 
Since we are sharing what I we have for step 1 resources, I have first aid, UWorld, firecracker and pathoma. Let's see if this works for me.
 
loltopsy said:
Picmonic is a great band aid to have for exams. Sketchy Micro is more of the same. I think they're terrible to use as a primary source because they don't teach depth of understand as much as quick fix mnemonics, still a good back up.

I bought UW and RX recently. So much pain.
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Yeah, they're all supplemental for my block studying. What I've learned is how much non-Step I **** we've been learning, and that's kind of annoying.

I haven't started studying outright for Step I, simply annotating and getting used to my resources so that when the time comes they're more familiar to me.
 
IncognitoGuy said:
So far I've ordered First Aid, Pathoma and the Lange Pharmacology cards. UWorld is in the cards and I might order USMLERx or the Kaplan QBank to have some questions to do over the year.

I also ordered a lifting belt recently. My credit card is weeping.
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Kaplan is kinda not good. Our school gives it to us for free to use with the blocks 1st/2nd year because it is "the worst QBank for Step1" according to them.
 
rcheech7 said:
Kaplan is kinda not good. Our school gives it to us for free to use with the blocks 1st/2nd year because it is "the worst QBank for Step1" according to them.
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They have good neuroanatomy and heart sound questions though.
 
rcheech7 said:
Kaplan is kinda not good. Our school gives it to us for free to use with the blocks 1st/2nd year because it is "the worst QBank for Step1" according to them.
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Why would they do that? Our school pays for $200 of our UWorld, no matter how much you get. I bought six months because it was super cheap. And our education specialist always gets us killer deals on all the other programs.
 
rcheech7 said:
Kaplan is kinda not good. Our school gives it to us for free to use with the blocks 1st/2nd year because it is "the worst QBank for Step1" according to them.
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Yeah we get it as well. Do you also get the review videos? The videos can be pretty helpful, but they're more or less what you find in FA.
 
sinombre said:
Yeah we get it as well. Do you also get the review videos? The videos can be pretty helpful, but they're more or less what you find in FA.
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I don't think the qbank access gave us access to the videos but I have them. I don't like them, but I know other people in my class find them useful.
 
Guys, first year is hard. It gets better, right? right? RIGHT?!?! :heckyeah:
 
SilentSoldier said:
Guys, first year is hard. It gets better, right? right? RIGHT?!?! :heckyeah:
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mnhockeyfan said:
Had my cardio/respiratory written final today. Did well enough that I can get zero points on the lab final tomorrow to still pass overall...but I would need JUST over 100% (read: 4 points) on said lab final to get honors. Woe is me.
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P/F for the win!
 
Kidneys involved a bunch of math, Pharm requires math, and now cardio is pulling out calculus?!?!? Did I accidentally enroll in math grad school classes this quarter? What is going on?!?

Oh, and top!!!
 
I like Step Up to Medicine for pathophys. I skim it a few days ahead of the exam to look for holes in my knowledge. It tends to have more details than are actually tested, but that's nice because sometimes, knowing more depth makes the superficial things easy to understand and remember.

The thing that also helps with pathophys is just doing butt tons of UW/RX/textbook questions. It creates an instinct where you can read a sentence or two of a vignette and know immediately where the question is going. Spidey senses.
 
Doctor Strange said:
GI/heme is a weird combination...
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My school likes to combine everything into giant blocks... I just started my GI/endocrine/repro/derm block, which is so far very similar to the GI/endocrine/reproduction block I had last year, but with more pathology, a handful of derm lectures, and I have to go to a derm clinic for a day.

mnhockeyfan said:
Anyone know of a good GI pathophysiology book? I start a GI/heme block tomorrow...
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Definitely Pathoma. Try doing the relevant lectures before your class lectures and you'll have a really solid foundation. I've only used it for hem/onc so far, but it was extremely helpful for that.
 
Conversation with an undergrad:

Undergrad: what's it like studying in med school!?!

Me: do you know the feeling you have when you are studying for finals and how many hours you put in on those long nights?

Undergrad: yeah, those nights suck.

Me: well, that's me everyday.

Undergrad: speechless.
 
Juan Solo said:
Conversation with an undergrad:

Undergrad: what's it like studying in med school!?!

Me: do you know the feeling you have when you are studying for finals and how many hours you put in on those long nights?

Undergrad: yeah, those nights suck.

Me: well, that's me everyday.

Undergrad: speechless.
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Sad, but true.
 
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