wouldn't mind having it there so that we don't de-track from this thread with rads-specifics
That was my thought. And so we don’t bombard the current 4th years with DMs.
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Take a look around the forums and then the date. You might be too caught up with your med school and residency.
Thank you for the bunny boot camp timeline, Steve.
I'm honestly ok with it. I'd rather get started sooner than later.
Yeah I'd like to know one way or the other so I can start planning my set up and buying things.
Thanks for this!
You can do 2 week radiology rotations to help give you more chances.
How strenuous is your surgery rotation going to be?
That’s fantastic to hear. I was worried about applying with only letters from internists and surgeons. I really want at least one letter from a radiologist if I can have it.
I don’t think it’s supposed to be too horrible. I had the more difficult preceptor already; I’ve heard the other guy at my site who takes students in gen surg is more chill. But everybody at my site does take a lot of call, so it just depends on how things go with that, really.
How did UWorld correlate for you? I swear my scores go from 50% to 80% from set to set.
All over the freaking place each block. It was weird. Didn't matter at all in the end. Use the questions to learn and forget about it.
That’s good to hear. Did you take any practice exams?
Just the UWSAs!
IM here. Some programs asked me things like - what rotation are you doing right now, have you done your IM sub-I yet, how much ICU experience do you have (IM spreadsheet will lead you to the name of this program). Most of them didn’t seem to care though. Our school told us programs won’t even see what we’re taking in 4th year but I’m in a DO school and I generally don’t believe/ignore what they say
I feel like we just send our transcripts, no? If so, all the things we take 4th year will show up?
So don't bother with NBMEs? I have zero fire to study for step 2 the way I did for step 1 lol.
100% this. Super hard to get the feeling of drive I had for step 1 back.
That's terrible. Your program is markedly preventing you from being as competitive as you can easily be. What a ridiculous situation.
Sure. some will disagree but I found them useless for step 1 and doubly so for step 2. Any time you are not learning needs to be used for test taking skills. If your test taking skills are good (you know if this is true or not) then why take nbmes? For the record, I'm someone who doesn't need to learn how the test writers like to phrase things and didn't have trouble with usmle versus comlex style questions for example just to explain where I'm coming from here. It's controversial but I found the time better used elsewhere. The nbme exams help you see how the questions are so you are used to it. Much less of a problem on step 2 and much less of a problem if you don't have that hangup when taking exams.
How many hours per day did you study during your semi-dedicated period? I'm setting up my last 4 weeks before step 2 right now and want to know if I'll have some time to go mountain biking on the weekends lol. I gave up everything for step 1 dedicated and only really got in a workout 3 times a week, don't want to do that if it's not necessary this time. Goal is breaking 260 though, so might have to doubly hustle.
Just UWORLD. I'll repost one of my old posts..
I don't think I broke 8-9 hours a day ever and definitely didn't do more than 5 days a week aside from the rare 6th day.
Since I'm done with Comat, I'm in kinda dedicated right now. Its been wayyyyy less studying than step 1, and Im really hitting a groove with Uworld. On the weekends where I have nothing but to study, its been 5 hours max. I imagine in actual dedicated Ill be wokring 8am-3PM everyday, maybe 8-5.
That's what I'm anticipating I'll do, except maybe 6 am - 2 pm everyday sort of thing. I can't imagine that doing all my reviews + 2-3 blocks of Uworld will take more than 6-8 hours a day.
They def were for step 1. I'll probably do them because I have the time, and I dont mind having a depressing fire lit under my ass
If you don’t mind sharing, how did you do on step 2?
Step1/step2=250s/260s. Technically my step 2 was a lower percentile, but I think as long as the second number is similar or higher no one cares.
I will probably create a new email account soon. I'm going to have my fiance get it as well, and a list of my top programs that she can schedule if she gets the email and does hear from me.
That’s a great idea. I should probably do the same since the area I’m living in can have spotty cell service.
I've heard its decently common. I was not going to do it but I get so many emails everyday I would be easy to miss an interview invite
I just made mine [email protected], figure it would be nice to get notifications only for that email address and know its ERAS
Make sure you also forward that email account to SMS then.
I’m gonna have to google how to do that for Gmail. Didn’t even know that existed tbh. 100% going to do it. Man, I’m getting more excited day by day.
It’s not about missing them. It’s that some places fill up all of their slots in >5 minutes and in a virtual interview season there’s almost no WL movement.
