Does Gunner Training teach too much?

[GoodmanBrown]

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I'm working through my free trial of Gunner Training on the microbiology section. I'm going through it simultaneously with my microbiology course in M1.

GT keeps asking me questions about how to treat various parasites. In my class, we went through various parasites, but the prof specifically said "Don't learn the treatments. That's too much for this course."

So, is my course director being too easy on us, and will we need to know this for Step I? I'm having a hard time imagining the parasites get much mention next year in organ blocks, but perhaps I'm wrong.

 

[Hernandez]

isn't that part of being a gunner?

 

[Rollo]

Yes, you will need to know antiparastic drugs for Step 1.

But your professor is right if the objective of your micro course doesn't involve you learning the treatments. Then it would become a micro and a pharm course.

 

[Encephalectomy]

Yup, you'll need to know antimicrobials including anti-parasite meds for step1, and honestly I think it is easier to learn them alongside the bugs than separately but to each his own

 

[bbydoc]

I'm working through my free trial of Gunner Training on the microbiology section. I'm going through it simultaneously with my microbiology course in M1.

GT keeps asking me questions about how to treat various parasites. In my class, we went through various parasites, but the prof specifically said "Don't learn the treatments. That's too much for this course."

So, is my course director being too easy on us, and will we need to know this for Step I? I'm having a hard time imagining the parasites get much mention next year in organ blocks, but perhaps I'm wrong.

you need to know how to treat parasites. but that should be taught in pharm. maybe your prof says it is too much for his course but it is required for step1.
anti-parasitic drugs are quite similar and I didnt think it was hard to learn the principles using kaplan pharm.

 

[hrandani]

I noticed when I first started using it that Gunner Training clearly was not designed for courses that aren't integrated and it's not as useful as I hoped for concurrent use with class. I remember doing the pharm part of micro, it was incredibly demoralizing.

However, 8 months into GT I notice now when I browse First Aid I have most of the material down which quite frankly shocked me. Although, I guess after an average of 2 hours a day it shouldn't.

I also think that the question of whether you can learn too much about basic sciences in preparation for Step 1 is ridiculous. Although I could probably live with myself if I skipped biochem.

 

[GoodmanBrown]

I noticed when I first started using it that Gunner Training clearly was not designed for courses that aren't integrated and it's not as useful as I hoped for concurrent use with class. I remember doing the pharm part of micro, it was incredibly demoralizing.

However, 8 months into GT I notice now when I browse First Aid I have most of the material down which quite frankly shocked me. Although, I guess after an average of 2 hours a day it shouldn't.

I also think that the question of whether you can learn too much about basic sciences in preparation for Step 1 is ridiculous. Although I could probably live with myself if I skipped biochem.

Yeah, just perusing the biochem section made me sad. I've already had that class, but it was so fast that little of it stuck. I'm a little demoralized on that one.

Props on studying 2 hours a day with GT. I'm not that high, but I'm doing pretty well in regards to the pace of studying for my micro class. Hoping to review all of first year over the summer when I've got less to do.

EDIT: Are you doing the "Lite" or the "Comprehensive" account? I'm doing the comprehensive, and I don't know how you'd get through stuff with just 2 hours a day. I already have like 50 review questions per day, and I'm only like 3% of the way done with the material. Doesn't it just get overwhelming at some point?

 

[Ty Webb]

don't let gt discourage you, i'm sure you'll be fine for the exam whether you use it or not.

my experience with gt:

gunner training can be overwhelming when you first start: you'll do a couple of long flash cards and corresponding quizzes, feel like you've accomplished a lot, and then see your overall progress as .7%.

after you put a little time into it though, it should seem a little less daunting. you'll get to 10-15% complete and probably start seeing it as more doable. if it doesn't, just ditch it. last thing you want is to use a review program that undermines your confidence in your understanding of the material rather than reinforcing it.