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I will begin using DIT within the next 2 weeks. For those of you that are doing it/in the middle of using it is there any advice you have?

I initially wanted to do 100UWorld Questions a day along with learning the material from class. It will be my 3rd pass through the material, so hoping it goes a little quicker.

I am wondering if there is time to go over Rapid Review. I have read it only once on my first run without the audio (which I am hearing is clutch to solidy the material). On my second run (now until I start DIT) I am strictly using FA and doing 50World Questions a day. I do not have time to reread RR.

In short, I have 3.5 weeks once I start DIT, any advice/things you wish you did while taking the course?
 
I'm actually doing DIT right now. Because of time constraints, I'm not doing DIT exactly as intended. But the best thing to do is to watch the videos as intended. That is, 3 videos a day, Monday thru Friday with weekends to review that week's material. I'm currently watching about 4 videos a day and still managing to do two 48 question blocks daily. This is my second run through of UWorld, so reviewing my questions doesn't take as long. Also, when doing DIT, you have to do the workbook that he refers to in the videos. The best results will come from doing the workbooks. I also do a 1.5 - 2 hour pharm drill with some friends. So if you are not doing the pharm drill and an extra video daily, I think managing to get some extra reading in daily is doable. Good luck!
 
I spent a solid week with rapid review path before starting DIT. It was time well spent and my score report showed that path was a strong subject of mine.

I did 1 block a day in UWorld. I found doing these in the morning worked best for me, just b/c my concentration was best... no 4th quarter effect. Plus you're taking the test starting in the morning so you might as well get in the habit of getting smacked in the face with some questions first thing. I'd started UWorld a little before hand so I was on pace to finish the complete bank by the time I took my test... make sure you do that. If this means doubling up, then do it. I'd also recommend taking some NBME full lengths on the weekend to chart your progress.

For watching the videos. Have one window for DIT, one window for screwing around. I had DIT open in one tab then SDN, email, etc in other tabs. More than once I'd accidentally click out of a video in the DIT tab b/c I'd paused it and was trying to mindlessly surf the interweb. I never ran out of views b/c you get 3, but it's really annoying.... so just web-browse in a separate window and keep one for just DIT.

Other stupid stuff. Figure out what you're going to be bringing to the test center in terms of food, caffeine, etc. Get your stomach and bladder used to that routine the month you have to study so you're not dealing with GI upset or a bladder that's bothering you 5 min into every block.
 
Thanks! I have already read RR cover to cover. I guess I will try to manage getting through it once more. I am studying for 10 weeks, and DIT will serve as my last 3.5 wks. At the end of 5wks I read it once, I will try to get through it one more time. and then TAUS blue margins for the last 10 days.

Thank you for the advice, i changed my exam date and unfortunately my time starts at 2PM! so thats a 2-10PM time slot? maybe I should try changing that. But I am not a morning person.
What is pharm drill?
 
I'm in the middle of DIT right now too. Make sure your laptop can handle the videos, some people have problems, it should generally work fine just may take time to load, once i had it just completely go out on me though and i couldn't get it to reload. They're generally nice about giving you extra views if you end up having to waste it because of tech issues. I've just been doing them at the university library now since the computers are much better. I'd say that annotating into FA and on his handouts if they fit there is best and then you can review those 2 things after, the quizzes and constant questions are great. I also recommend the fast option, he sounds like a chipmunk but if you can handle it its a bit more efficient.

Doing DIT after goljan is good because goljan gives you all the understanding and DIT drills all the nitpicky details of first aid. The goljan audio is most important. I've been doing schedule of 3 lectures a day with 3 blocks of Uworld right after(and reviewing them annotating all the answers into FA). This way I get through all of DIT and Uworld in 15 days. Jenkins recommends 5-6 hours of studying in addition to his program but only 25-50 questions, I find studying really boring, so I just spend all that time on the questions because I'm very engaged either answering or annotating, it probably depends on how comfortable you feel with the material to do questions as to how much time to spend doing that relative to reviewing.
 
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I'm in the middle of DIT right now too. Make sure your laptop can handle the videos, some people have problems, it should generally work fine just may take time to load, once i had it just completely go out on me though and i couldn't get it to reload. They're generally nice about giving you extra views if you end up having to waste it because of tech issues. I've just been doing them at the university library now since the computers are much better. I'd say that annotating into FA and on his handouts if they fit there is best and then you can review those 2 things after, the quizzes and constant questions are great. I also recommend the fast option, he sounds like a chipmunk but if you can handle it its a bit more efficient.

Doing DIT after goljan is good because goljan gives you all the understanding and DIT drills all the nitpicky details of first aid. The goljan audio is most important. I've been doing schedule of 3 lectures a day with 3 blocks of Uworld right after(and reviewing them annotating all the answers into FA). This way I get through all of DIT and Uworld in 15 days. Jenkins recommends 5-6 hours of studying in addition to his program but only 25-50 questions, I find studying really boring, so I just spend all that time on the questions because I'm very engaged either answering or annotating, it probably depends on how comfortable you feel with the material to do questions as to how much time to spend doing that relative to reviewing.

Are you watching DIT at normal speed? How long does it take you to get through 3 lectures with the associated DIT questions? I understand they're anywhere from 1-1.5 hrs each. I had been planning on doing ~2 lectures/day every day for ~3 weeks, followed by 2 blocks of UW...but wasn't sure if I'd even have enough time since UW and annotating currently takes me ~2hrs for 1/2 block on tutor mode. Ideally, I would love to do 3 blocks of UW with 2 DIT lectures.
 
Are you watching DIT at normal speed? How long does it take you to get through 3 lectures with the associated DIT questions? I understand they're anywhere from 1-1.5 hrs each. I had been planning on doing ~2 lectures/day every day for ~3 weeks, followed by 2 blocks of UW...but wasn't sure if I'd even have enough time since UW and annotating currently takes me ~2hrs for 1/2 block on tutor mode. Ideally, I would love to do 3 blocks of UW with 2 DIT lectures.

No I watch on fast which is about 2x. I find that on 1x he goes too slow and i end up being less efficient with my study time. I also think that in order to get through the 3 lectures in 5-5.5 hours(which is how long they say it should take), you can either watch at 1x and not rewind if you miss anything, only pausing for the quizzes or watch at 2x and rewind whenever you miss stuff and even end up done a little sooner. The rewind function is pretty annoying since its a little indiscriminate so you watch an extra 15-20 seconds everytime you do it which is especially annoying if you're on 1x to begin with.

Doing Uworld on timed will help you speed that up, it gets you used to thinking faster and increasing your mental processing of all this stuff. I take about 2-2.5 hours for a block, only 40 min of that is spent answering questions. Doing all this so fast can burn you out as well though and i'm finding that studying this many hours can have diminishing returns especially since even if all you did was get through UWorld with DIT you'll probably make a 240 anyways.
 
Is everyone doing DIT as part of their last run through? I'm debating whether i should do DIT during my 2nd run through and then possibly go over the important points and notes on the 3rd run through... any recommendations?

thanks
 
You can get that information directly off the web page, rather than revive a thread from the dead. I think there are roughly 240 videos that they estimate are 20 minutes each.
 
Are the part 2 videos available for 30 or 45 days? I know it says recommended to start 45 days before your exam but I keep hearing the access is only for a month. Maybe that was in the past? Are the videos available for 45 days now?
 
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