Is your school preparing you for the USMLE?

[Ypo.]

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Who feels like their school is preparing them adequately for the boards? (ie-board style examinations, high-yield courses).

Do you feel it is your school's responsibility to help prepare you for the boards? (and what is your schools position on this)?

 

[Rafa]

Must resist...temptation to vote...🙂

 

[Ypo.]

Must resist...temptation to vote...🙂

What-you only like starting them? 😀

 

[BlondeCookie]

Med school prepares you to be a doctor. Kaplan preps you for the USMLE.

 

[fantasty]

I feel our school gives us adequate time to prepared for Step I, plus we have an ample lending library of review materials and a student led review course to cover areas that we think would be high yield or that we need another pass on after the regular curriculum.

I agree with BlondeCookie that the school's primary job is to make us doctors. But, I think the only outside resources that should be used are books and Q-bank. I hate the whole test-prep industry that drains so much money from neurotic professional students.

 

[angel80]

I don't think that my school did a good job of preparing us for Step 1, but we had enough time (almost 6 weeks) to study for it. On the other hand, I felt like they did a great job preparing us for Step 2 (we have a very good clinical experience at our school, plus, we take the Shelf exams). I only had to study for about 12 days for Step 2 and I rocked it.

 

[YouDontKnowJack]

i don't think 6 weeks is enough.
pharm is almost impossible to memorize. all those drugs! like memorizing SAT vocab words all over again...

 

[azzarah]

Hopkins does an excellent job of preparing us both for the wards and for the boards. 👍

 

[Rafa]

What-you only like starting them? 😀

I didn't want to vote on account of not being in med school :^)