COMLEX II: High Yield

[LonePair]

Starting to get shaky as test day is coming around, any very important areas to focus on for COMLEX II? All I'm hearing is lots of OMM and OBGYN. Any subsections of anything else to pay attention to?
ex) hematomas, sleep cycles for step 1.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks, N:

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[turkdlit]

Seemed like 50% of my exam was peds...seriously, tons and tons of peds...

UTIs came up in ~15-20 questions in some shape or form, almost no psych, very little surgery, a few cranial, 2 epi questions...OMM was about 15% but pretty straight forward. Good amount of OB/GYN. Oh, and I had a good amount of EKGs (~15 questions) and lots of pictures.

Very little medicine, compared to USMLE...

Know torticollis and recommendations for child safety seats (tough matching section that I hear is going around...)

Other than that, this exam was totally random. Its random nature makes it difficult to prepare for, so don't stress too much about it...it is what it is (a poorly written exam with strange questions).

Good luck 👍

 

[LonePair]

Thanks for the help!

 

[LonePair]

I just took that Phase II NBOME exam. I thought it was tougher than I expected: plenty of random stuff. "Most effective preventative measure". Anterior chapman points for gastritis and MI? - OMM that's not in the green book is where I get lost.
I'm a bit discouraged, I got a 586 and I believe that's just under a 90 two-digit score. I really wanted to do higher. Got a week left so I better work on some high yield... COMBANK is much easier than what the real comlex is going to be like. I also did World and Kaplan but there's just a different feel the NBOME questions. They're either really easy or just leaves u hanging, building on that headache.

 

[surrender903]

why did you post the same exact response in two threads? stop going over world and kaplan and start going over combank and comsae.

 

[LonePair]

Has anyone heard about Goljan step 2 audio being helpful? Good for comlex II?

 

[OnMyWayThere]

Is it worth spending time to learn the vaccination schedule for Peds?

 

[surrender903]

Is it worth spending time to learn the vaccination schedule for Peds?

im so over learning friggin milestones.

 

[LonePair]

IBS: tx? lower cervical, upper thoracic, middle thoracic, sacral area, or upper lumbar?

R ASIS and PSIS cephalad, Pt points to R SI ht as being tender. What is the diagnosis? R superior shear or L inferior shear?

When you have a cervical radiculopathy, do XR over CT for diagnosis?

Which has greater effect on the GU mucosa postmenopausally? Estrogen or Progesterone.

 

[surrender903]

IBS: tx? lower cervical, upper thoracic, middle thoracic, sacral area, or upper lumbar?

R ASIS and PSIS cephalad, Pt points to R SI ht as being tender. What is the diagnosis? R superior shear or L inferior shear?

When you have a cervical radiculopathy, do XR over CT for diagnosis?

Which has greater effect on the GU mucosa postmenopausally? Estrogen or Progesterone.

that first question was quite possibly the WORST practice question i have EVER seen in my life. Far worse than the "muslim" woman question of comlex 1 q bank in 2006.

 

[LonePair]

MRI is currently the study of choice in most patients for the initial neuroimaging evaluation of the cervical spine. CT myelography is the traditional 'gold standard' for the diagnosis of foraminal compression, and remains superior to MRI in the distinction of osteophyte from soft tissue material. Flexion and extension plain films are important in the setting of trauma and/or myelopathy, and are helpful to evaluate for possible spondylolisthesis. Imaging studies of the cervical spine may be completely normal in noncompressive radiculopathy.

 

[climbingdocs]

Just took comlex, and I agree with above that there is lots of peds.
Very little biostatistics (I think just one), and some ethics (know about HIPPA).
Chovstek sign was in 4 questions.
Very crappy images of CT scans, and microscope slides. Some EKGs and pics from endoscopies, and laparoscopies.
OMT: inervations!!
What bacteria goes with what occupations (Ex. pigeon breeder-?)
Know about informed conscent- what goes into it

glad to be done!

 

[WestcoastMedicine]

For those who took the COMSAE. Do you get your results immediately after finishing it? Thanks

 

[surrender903]

you get your score right after submitting the last set.

 

[WestcoastMedicine]

Thanks

 

[CorpuSpongiosum]

hi guys,

I just took the comlex ce and wanted to let you know it was much more straight forward than the USMLE STep II CK.

Much easier than USMLE World. No need to shoot yourself if you are not doing well on that.

Overall, the NBOME shelfs were the best indicator of what Comlex II was like in my humble opinion.


Good Luck to all,

Corpus

 

[OnMyWayThere]

Thanks for the feedback! Makes me wonder why our school administers the NBME shelf exams instead of NBOME🙄

 

[bobcomlex]

Could anyone help me with this question?

What test should you order to assess cervical radiculopathy? MRI of cervical spine is not an answer choice. It's between

a. radiographs of the cervical spine
b. CT scan of the cervical spine

I printed off a student guessed answer key and it had choice a.) but Uptodate says CT is more sensitive. The person who responded above quoted uptodate. What would you answer knowing how COMLEX tests? X-ray is certainly the cheap test and from what I heard COMLEX tends to favor the quicker and cheaper test but does anyone know if CT is the definitive answer in this case?

 

[WannaPassGas]

For those of you who have already taken Step 2:

Only regarding the OMM questions, do you think that the questions in the Green Book will be enough or do you recommend getting COMBANK?

I am taking the test in a couple of weeks and have been studying with UWorld the whole time. As much input as possible would be appreciated!