How to Study for RISE As a PGY-1?

[Thaitanium]

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So, how do you? My co-residents are suggesting to me I shouldn't study for it. Any opinions?

Thanks!

 

[pathstudent]

So, how do you? My co-residents are suggesting to me I shouldn't study for it. Any opinions?

Thanks!

Simple.

Make the most of every rotation. And then don't study for it.

 

[Gut Shot]

Your score on the RISE doesn't mean balls. If anything, a terrible score first year just means you will have a larger improvement come fourth year.

That, and there is no way to study for the RISE. It's just a bizarre pile of questions they beam in from Pluto every year.

 

[yaah]

It's just a bizarre pile of questions they beam in from Pluto every year.

So is the boards! Although I think some of the boards questions were beamed in from Pluto 10 years ago.

Don't study for the RISE, especially your first year. It will give you a good baseline as to where your knowledge level is. And as said, then you can show how much you improved later on and impress the hell out of some people.

 

[versalog]

So, how do you?

If you have ever been curious about whether the Buffalo Theory is valid, but were too timid to experiment before the USMLE, then the night before the RISE is a great time for a little research. Please don't study for it.

 

[deschutes]

versalog, I am curious - are you encouraging readers to be the Wounded Buffalo? Because I would have thought that survival skills make it necessary to not be the slowest runner...

Do not study for RISE as a PGY-1. You can study for it plenty in subsequent years if you're so inclined, though that is pretty pointless as well IMO. Except maybe in fourth year and you're taking boards - 'cos if you're below 500 you might want to consider more concentrated study time. Or since the RISE results come out so late, postponing your date.

 

[versalog]

I am curious - are you encouraging readers to be the Wounded Buffalo?

deschutes, I was mostly thinking about testing the long-promised benefit of culling old and decrepit brain cells prior to an examination by imbibing lots of <insert your favorite alcohol beverage here>.

We pathology residents have likely never sought to validate the above claim, being ever earnest and responsible students not given to debauchery or wantonness, unlike our brethren surgery residents.

 

[deleted57552]

Don't study for the RISE, especially your first year. It will give you a good baseline as to where your knowledge level is. And as said, then you can show how much you improved later on and impress the hell out of some people.

I agree with yaah's statement here. There is no tangible incentive to study your ass off for the RISE during your first year when all you're doing is establishing a baseline. Naturally, you will improve your RISE score during subsequent years if you pay attention during your residency.

 

[deschutes]

Naturally, you will improve your RISE score during subsequent years if you pay attention during your residency.

Absolutely untrue for CP if you're AP/CP at a program that mixes up AP and CP rotations.

This is an observation, and not an encouragement to study CP for RISE.