By the way, you may wish to get off your high horse considering you used goljan audio for your board prep and/or recommended it. Or did you forget that it is pirated and had amnesia and totally forgot you posted this?
"(1) Get As in all classes in first two years of medical school (frustrating, sometimes useless, sometimes very helpful, dependent on Medical school). This is not sarcastic, if you learn everything the first time through, you just have to pull it out later.
(2) Do Kaplan Qbank questions DURING pathology. Listen to Goljan Audio, again, striving for an A in path while annotating Step 1
(3) Actual Step Studying (9 weeks long). Every week has Kaplan Qbank Questions. Every week was 12 hrs a day 6 days a week, with 6hrs on the 7th day working. Everyweek I read through first AID on the 7th day (for 6 hrs), including any notes I put it.
- Week 1: Path = Kaplan Videos + BRS
- Week 2: Pharm = Kaplan Videos + Kaplan Q Bank
- Week 3: Physio/Behavioral = BRS + BRS (I rocked physio, so it was an easy read)
- Week 4: Micro/Immuno = Kaplan Videos + FA. Mostly FA for Micro (I hate micro). I actually worked about 4 hrs a day on this week. This was my mid-study break week
- Week 5: Biochem = Kaplan Videos (Lionel Raymond is ****ing awesome at this)
- Week 6: Anat/Neuro/Histo/Embryo = Kaplan Videos, Learn FA tables
- Week 7 + 8: USMLE World
(4) Weekend before Step 1: log on to student doctor for the first time, begin giving useful information and sometimes flaming (got two citations by admins). Major stress releif. I pretended I would read First Aid again, but it didnt happen.
(5) Score: 248
(6) Friend of mine did the same thing (Kaplan + 2 Q Banks) and got a 260. Screw him for doing so much better with the same strategy, but hooray my score anyway!
(7) Largely unrealistic for most medical schools. We had 8 weeks after the end of pathology to do with what we wanted. Some people took vacations. I threw away my life and happiness for a Board score. if you're ok with it, you can do it! "
