Material for Step 2?

[Peeshee]

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What material do you recommend for Step 2? What is absolutely necessary from your experience, and what are good question sources?

thank you

 

[bignursemd]

What material do you recommend for Step 2? What is absolutely necessary from your experience, and what are good question sources?

thank you

I think the best resources for review are;

Questions: NMS-a little nit-picky at times , but definitely drives home the key areas, also the question stems are not as long as the true exam, but the quality of information is key
Q-book/Qbank via Kaplan: where my saving grace, again I?ll swear by them, the stems were short, but the quality of the information was right on target.

--as for knowledge base review---
1)I used Kaplan notes, and Secrets, both were excellent resources for jogging your memory.
Overall I urge you to do as many questions as possible, and good luck
-peace 🙂

 

[Peeshee]

--as for knowledge base review---
1)I used Kaplan notes, and Secrets, both were excellent resources for jogging your memory.
Overall I urge you to do as many questions as possible, and good luck
-peace 🙂[/QUOTE]

Hello, thanks for the response. What Kaplan notes are you talking about? Is it just one book, and do the notes come with the course?

thanks

 

[bignursemd]

--as for knowledge base review---
1)I used Kaplan notes, and Secrets, both were excellent resources for jogging your memory.
Overall I urge you to do as many questions as possible, and good luck
-peace 🙂

Hello, thanks for the response. What Kaplan notes are you talking about? Is it just one book, and do the notes come with the course?

thanks[/QUOTE]

oh yeah sorry about that---I'm talking about the actuall lecture notes, I think there's 5 books, qbook etc... from kaplan, their the books that are included in Kaplans prep class---- hope this helps....
if you're looking to pick them up, just pm me
-peace 😉

 

[Scott_L]

Other good sources are Prescription for the Boards and the Step 2 Secrets

 

[Peeshee]

Other good sources are Prescription for the Boards and the Step 2 Secrets

How are these 2 books different? Should I use both or just one?

Also, is the 1st AID for Step 2 not very useful?

I appreciate your responses!

 

[Peeshee]

Does Goljan have any material for Step 2?

 

[giznut12]

I also would like to know if anyone used Goljan materials for step 2.

Thanks

 

[DoctorG]

I used Goljan for step 1 but not for step 2. The word on the street is that Goljan for step 2 is not as good when compared to his step 1 (some say it's b/c he's a pathologist) but I personally could not confirm that. I used Kaplan notes and Secrets and thought they were excellent for the test. Good luck.

 

[Cristagali]

What about Boards and Wards and the MKSAP for Students?? (For Step 2 of course) 😎

 

[Peeshee]

Has anyone used USMLE world for questions instead of QBANK? How did the questions compare? I have heard they are more difficult but prepare you better for step 2.
thanks!

 

[Peeshee]

Hi,
is there a more current NMS question book for step 2? The one I have seen is 1999 and they are no longer printing it, supposedly.
thanks

 

[Scott_L]

The current edition is the most up to date and is still in print and available in stores and online at Amazon or LWW.com. A new edition should be out in the next 18 months.


-Scott

 

[jmattwilson]

I only used Q-bank and recieved an average score. I think if you used some of the above resources you could do very well. This test seemed hard to study for as there is a lot of clinical judgement rather than random facts. Although there are those lurking BS questions that made me want to sling my monitor in the floor and leave.