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.