It has begun...USMLE/COMLEX 2007 thread

[Bill_Brasky]

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It is sad, but it is the truth. I've been watching baseball, muting it, and going through Netter and HY Anatomy to start studying for the boards. Driving from the north-east to Texas I made it through webprep for Anatomy and Behavioral Science.

I know I don't have to do it, so save all the "enjoy your last summer" posts cause I'm in a town in West Texas with literally noting else to do 'cause all of my friends are now married. Plus, I've just done mediocre in my first year and really need to review some material I didn't get the first time around. So this thread is now the official home for all of us sad people, who actually enjoy learning this stuff and want to ease the pressure of their second year by studying when you have nothing else going on. Solidarity...

-Bill Brasky
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"Third: Did you know Bill Brasky is the godfather of my son?
Fourth: Bill Brasky?
First: He's a big fella!
Second: Oh yeah, he's a big guy! Goes about 6'7", 385.
Third: Well, anyway.. he shows up at the church in his golf pants, caked in mud. Well, ol' Bill Brasky pushes the priest aside and says, "I'll baptize that piece of calamari!" Then he pours Scotch all over my baby son and says, "There! You're baptized!"
Fourth: And your son is blind to this day!
First: Yeah, he makes brooms somewhere in Georgia, doesn't he?
Third: I have no idea. [ pause ] To Bill Brasky!
Together: Bill Brasky!!"

 

[Fin-Nor]

you're wasting your time. now you cant say that you werent warned.

 

[Bill_Brasky]

you're wasting your time. now you cant say that you werent warned.

From my original post:
"I know I don't have to do it, so save all the "enjoy your last summer" posts cause I'm in a town in West Texas with literally noting(sp) else to do 'cause all of my friends are now married."

So thank you very much Fin-Nor, your warning means very much to me considering you apparently didn't read my post. But when I am gnashing my teeth at some undisclosed point in my future, thinking about all that time I wasted when I would have wasted it anyways, because, as I mentioned, there is nothing else to do in this town in the middle of the desert, I will be able to say....AT LEAST I WAS WARNED!!!

 

[Fin-Nor]

suit yourself. go right on ahead and study your brains out. have fun.

btw, y start a pointless thread and flame anyone who replies to it?

and again, have fun bill brasky.

 

[LAZYGUY]

I don't think you are wasting your time. Learning stuff you never really learned or understood is essential. You certainly don't want to spend your usmle study time trying to understand the anatomy that you never learned. In reality though, you will not remember anything so try to organize your notes so that you can easily come back to those when you need them.

suit yourself. go right on ahead and study your brains out. have fun.

btw, y start a pointless thread and flame anyone who replies to it?

and again, have fun bill brasky.

 

[Bill_Brasky]

There is a reason I want to work so hard for the Step 1. I think I'm interested in either neuro/neurosurg. As a DO there are only 5 DO neuro programs (all in bad locations for me) and from what I can gather it is next to impossible for DOs to match into allopath neurosurg residencies BUT I want the option to at least be competitive by numbers when/if I apply.

I only found my groove in medical school half-way through the second semester so my class ranking sucks. I'll need stellar STEP 1 scores with great clinical evals to do what I want to do. I don't think I'll be able to be published though I will do some research this fall, so that gold star is out.

-Bill Brasky

 

[HoodyHoo]

There is a reason I want to work so hard for the Step 1. I think I'm interested in either neuro/neurosurg. As a DO there are only 5 DO neuro programs (all in bad locations for me) and from what I can gather it is next to impossible for DOs to match into allopath neurosurg residencies BUT I want the option to at least be competitive by numbers when/if I apply.

I only found my groove in medical school half-way through the second semester so my class ranking sucks. I'll need stellar STEP 1 scores with great clinical evals to do what I want to do. I don't think I'll be able to be published though I will do some research this fall, so that gold star is out.

-Bill Brasky

i suppose you might as well study now because come 2nd year you won't have any time to study for boards. as far as a publication, I have one and another that has been pending for a long time and no one really gives a damn about it. unless you're going into research that is.

 

[joe6102]

I don't think you are wasting your time. Learning stuff you never really learned or understood is essential. You certainly don't want to spend your usmle study time trying to understand the anatomy that you never learned. In reality though, you will not remember anything so try to organize your notes so that you can easily come back to those when you need them.

Why does everyone say that you won't remember anything? At what point can you remember it? 6 months before you take the test? 3 months? 3 weeks? Might as well not study anything until a week before the boards, that way all of your studying will be high yield.

The truth is that every bit helps. If you review this summer, you'll remember only a little of it this time next year. But when you start reviewing again at the end of M2, it will come back a lot quicker, and give you time for other subjects. Every bit of studying helps, even if it is a year ahead of time.

 

[kito]

Why does everyone say that you won't remember anything? At what point can you remember it? 6 months before you take the test? 3 months? 3 weeks? Might as well not study anything until a week before the boards, that way all of your studying will be high yield.

The truth is that every bit helps. If you review this summer, you'll remember only a little of it this time next year. But when you start reviewing again at the end of M2, it will come back a lot quicker, and give you time for other subjects. Every bit of studying helps, even if it is a year ahead of time.

You do that champ!

 

[dara678]

y'all are a bunch of gunners!!! lol j/k ... to each his own 🙂

i didn't study a bit during first year summer ... i enjoyed the sun and shopping :-D

 

[(nicedream)]

y'all are a bunch of gunners!!! lol j/k ... to each his own 🙂

i didn't study a bit during first year summer ... i enjoyed the sun and shopping :-D

hi2u dara, pics plz 😍