DIT: How many hours per day?

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I'm taking the USMLE on the 3rd, and I'm starting DIT this weekend. My initial plan was to get DIT by the 17th so I could take a practice exam the 18th and then have the next two and a half weeks to dedicate to practice questions, weak points from the NBME, reviewing first aid, another NBME....
However, on the eve of starting this plan, I'm having second thoughts about spending a little more than a week in which I am doing DIT but not much else besides 1 question block w/FA annotations. I was wondering if there would be any merit to spreading DIT out over more days and mixing it up with more question blocks/general review time, even if it means taking my mid-point practice exam later or before I've done a complete first pass.

 

[Jambo1]

ditto , ^bump

 

[Bouddha]

I'm taking the USMLE on the 3rd, and I'm starting DIT this weekend. My initial plan was to get DIT by the 17th so I could take a practice exam the 18th and then have the next two and a half weeks to dedicate to practice questions, weak points from the NBME, reviewing first aid, another NBME....
However, on the eve of starting this plan, I'm having second thoughts about spending a little more than a week in which I am doing DIT but not much else besides 1 question block w/FA annotations. I was wondering if there would be any merit to spreading DIT out over more days and mixing it up with more question blocks/general review time, even if it means taking my mid-point practice exam later or before I've done a complete first pass.

I started it on Mar 11, and just finished yesterday. I would say I was pretty consistent, and in the beginning was only doing mini-sets of questions (17/day), but I am married with kids, so there were 5-6 family days in the mix there, and it's family time every night from 5:30-8:30.

That being said, I think if you consistently completed 15 videos per day (roughly 10 hours), you could finish in 2 weeks. You will begin to drag around video 75-80, but just have to push through and get it done. I did the course 3 months out, and feel it was worth it, but I would encourage you to work through it as fast as you can to leave time for UWorld/FA.

 

[Jamiu22]

I'm taking the USMLE on the 3rd, and I'm starting DIT this weekend. My initial plan was to get DIT by the 17th so I could take a practice exam the 18th and then have the next two and a half weeks to dedicate to practice questions, weak points from the NBME, reviewing first aid, another NBME....
However, on the eve of starting this plan, I'm having second thoughts about spending a little more than a week in which I am doing DIT but not much else besides 1 question block w/FA annotations. I was wondering if there would be any merit to spreading DIT out over more days and mixing it up with more question blocks/general review time, even if it means taking my mid-point practice exam later or before I've done a complete first pass.

Don't do DIT unless you have at least 8 wks before your exam....focus on memorizing FA...and then doing UWORLD plus NBMEs...

many folks here have said DIT is really time consuming... so during these last weeks, you really can't afford to spend your time on something that time consuming - and I agree. With the time you have, open FA...and get to memorizing it even if you don't like to - you really have no choice.