Other UW categories for surgery shelf?

[deleted564496]

Title says it all.. I'm about three weeks out from the surgery shelf and have really only done pestana + UW + a decent amount of FA... I feel like I need to hit some other sections of UW. Planning on doing fluids, electrolytes, and maybe GI.. Anybody have any thoughts on if these will be enough or if I should hit another subject. This has been a rough rotation for me, this one will pry hurt my class rank, but obviously the goal is to just pass.

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[blueshockey]

If you're going to do any other sections of uworld as far as the surgery shelf is concerned, GI would be your best bet; I didn't do fluids/electrolytes though so I can't speak to those. GI helped with a few questions on my shelf last week but it's not like I would have done substantially worse if I didn't do it. Unfortunately the surgery shelf IMO is a crapshoot because I've heard people saying that uworld surgery/pestana/nms were really great for their test, whereas I didn't feel that way at all.

 

[deleted564496]

Thanks man, well if UW & pestana aren't enough then I'm real ******!

 

[Cytarabine]

GI would be highest yield. Obgyn would be helpful but lower yield. Medicine would be very helpful but completely impossible to actually do

 

[Señor S]

GI, endocrine and fluids are the standard recommendations (in that order), however I will say that it felt like there were a lot of pulmonary questions on my test. If I could do it over again I would do the sections in a question book (PreTest, Lange) for pre-op/post-op stuff and would skip fluids (too many low-yield renal questions).

 

[Señor S]

Unfortunately the surgery shelf IMO is a crapshoot because I've heard people saying that uworld surgery/pestana/nms were really great for their test, whereas I didn't feel that way at all.

I think they must have changed the test recently, because these are what everybody recommends and I (and the other people I took it with) thought all those resources were mediocre too.