Step I Highest Yield Organ Systems

[MDSlacker]

What are the highest yield organ systems/topics? I was planning on leaving the highest yield/most likely to forget topics for my last week of studying. I am assuming that majority of questions on step 1 are heme-onc, cardio, and neuro but not sure if that's true. I was also planning to leave embryo and biochem until the end because those are topics I am likely to forget. I will obviously be looking at these subjects before that time but just trying to plan my last pass through First Aid.

 

[Jamiu22]

What are the highest yield organ systems/topics? I was planning on leaving the highest yield/most likely to forget topics for my last week of studying. I am assuming that majority of questions on step 1 are heme-onc, cardio, and neuro but not sure if that's true. I was also planning to leave embryo and biochem until the end because those are topics I am likely to forget. I will obviously be looking at these subjects before that time but just trying to plan my last pass through First Aid.

Don't leave anything until the last week...if it's something you forget easily learn them well now, else they may be confusing under stress condition...I feel that things to be left for last week are simply just overall general phys, path and pharm (especially side effect)... you know, light reading.

 

[InFactotum]

Are you doing UW? I would go over EVERYTHING before the last week. But, during the last week, I would especially hit the subjects that UW demonstrates you are weak in. This will be different for each person, but as Jamiu22 mentioned... micro/pharm tend to be weak for a lot of people and due to the memorization nature of these topics are good to review immediately beforehand.

 

[MDSlacker]

Are you doing UW? I would go over EVERYTHING before the last week. But, during the last week, I would especially hit the subjects that UW demonstrates you are weak in. This will be different for each person, but as Jamiu22 mentioned... micro/pharm tend to be weak for a lot of people and due to the memorization nature of these topics are good to review immediately beforehand.

I am doing UWorld and should be through all of it 1 week before I take step 1 and then my plan was to go over all the questions I missed during that last week (estimating 2 blocks per day). I guess I should have been more specific but I will have gone through everything prior to the last week. I've already gone through FA twice and planning on going through it 2-3 more times before step 1.

As I make my last pass through first aid I was planning to leave the harder subjects for later so I am doing them closer to the exam and less likely to forget. I'll definitely leave Biochem and Embryo until the end and also probably pharm. As far as the organ systems go which organ systems would you guys say are highest yield because I feel like also doing these as close to the exam as possible makes me less likely to forget small details.