How to switch to fully third-party

[magician7772222]

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I always hear people talking about switching to exclusively third party and I think I would be better off doing this too but I get very overwhelmed combing through the resources and actually lining them up with what I'm supposed to be learning in class so I usually give up and just read the assigned scholarRX bricks/watch in-house lectures. My school has an integrated sciences curriculum and uses NBME bank for exams but has in-house quizzes.

How do people actually go about making this switch and making sure that what you're learning through third-party is actually lining up with your school curriculum.

 

[amoxicillin_resistant]

I would ask your school if someone already did the gruntwork of aligning your guys' lectures with Bootcamp or Patoma or BnB or whatever u wanna use.

Someone from my school did that and I have been using her doc ever since.

Just make sure that you make the switch AFTER an exam. Dont just switch up in the middle of a block.

Also, make sure that you still do your inhouse practice Qs. What I personally do is that I will make anki cards out of the inhouse Qs I get wrong or guessed on and add them into Anking.

 

[magician7772222]

I would ask your school if someone already did the gruntwork of aligning your guys' lectures with Bootcamp or Patoma or BnB or whatever u wanna use.

Someone from my school did that and I have been using her doc ever since.

Just make sure that you make the switch AFTER an exam. Dont just switch up in the middle of a block.

Also, make sure that you still do your inhouse practice Qs. What I personally do is that I will make anki cards out of the inhouse Qs I get wrong or guessed on and add them into Anking.

I've tried that and from the people I asked theres nothing like that and our curriculum is mildly restructured in comparison to the M2s as well.

 

[karaya]

The highest-yield third party resources are Sketchy for microbiology and pharmacology, and Pathoma for pathology. UWorld is for practice questions leading into Step. If you're a first year, you likely don't need those resources yet. If you are currently taking any of those courses (e.g. I think Ohio State teaches path concurrently with physio in blocks across M1 and M2) then you can look into the syllabi and make a rough estimate which lessons correlate with your in-house. But again, if your school is traditional, then you don't need 3rd party resources until second year, so just hold off and study the lectures.

 

[amoxicillin_resistant]

oh shoot ur a 1st year?

yeah nah dont do 3rd party stuff

 

[AJS59]

I'd recommend mapping out each block in terms of content covered to relevant Sketchy/Pathoma/B&B videos, supplementing with first aid as needed. Then, start to unsuspended stuff in Anking as you cover things. I'd recommend using the 3rd parties particularly because they will discuss material that may not be directly covered/emphasized in your in house