Pre-Med Student Scoring 90+ on USMLE?

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This is not a troll post. Long time lurker, first time poster.

As the education system here doesn't adequately prepare you for USMLE, the material presented here is somewhat of an introduction and reminds me of a pre-med curriculum.

As an IMG studying in India my question is: whether or not a pre-med student could theoretically score a 90+ on USMLE and if so, how long would it take him/her?

 

[Random Anesthesiologist]

Meh. I think I read the post wrong.

 

[MossPoh]

Theoretically, anyone could score a 90+. Your mom, a 3 year old child, and even the kid across the street wearing the football helmet while picking his nose. Will they? Probably not. I'd put my money on lottery tickets before that.

 

[ZagDoc]

This has been debated ad nauseum in the past. I think the general consensus around here is... sure, a pre-med could do it, with the right materials and a boat-load of time.

No idea how long it'd take. But you have to factor in time to LEARN the material, then memorize it, so you're looking at many months, rather than the 3-6 weeks most US allopaths take

 

[Inuranic]

Considering a lot of us don't go to class and are getting through school just reading books, sure, anyone who wants to just sit around and study all the time could score 90+ on the USMLE.

 

[psipsina]

Considering a lot of us don't go to class and are getting through school just reading books, sure, anyone who wants to just sit around and study all the time could score 90+ on the USMLE.

I think it would take an incredible amount of discipline to go through the material covered in the first two years of medschool on your own at the same pace without the next exam looming over your head. I know that I would have succumbed to the burnout many times had it not been for pure fear of failing.

 

[MilkmanAl]

I think it would take an incredible amount of discipline to go through the material covered in the first two years of medschool on your own at the same pace without the next exam looming over your head. I know that I would have succumbed to the burnout many times had it not been for pure fear of failing.

Duke students seem to do it and do it well. I think it'd be pretty easy if someone handed you a copy of First Aid and said, "know everything in here."

 

[psipsina]

Duke students seem to do it and do it well. I think it'd be pretty easy if someone handed you a copy of First Aid and said, "know everything in here."

I don't think I'd have understood first aid without the background work. First aid outlines are great ways of pulling that info back to the forefront of my mind but actually having those aha moments during first and second year were definitely necessary for me first. I'm not a memorizer though, for that type of volume I have to really wrap my head around the hows and whys for it to stick.

 

[NTF]

Sure why not. How long would it take? If you're independently wealthy, have no job, reasonably smart, have an undergrad science background and a decent test-taker, I think 6 months would do it. But there's no guarantee you'd score in the 90th percentile.

 

[Jumpin JAK STAT]

There's nothing magical about medical school that makes you able to learn basic science stuff better... you can memorize First aid, Robbins, Netter's anatomy, your biochem book of choice, etc. just about anywhere, as long as you're motivated.

 

[McGillGrad]

There's nothing magical about medical school that makes you able to learn basic science stuff better... you can memorize First aid, Robbins, Netter's anatomy, your biochem book of choice, etc. just about anywhere, as long as you're motivated.

That true of every profession (save advanced physics and mathematics), so this discussion is moot.

 

[NRAI2001]

Sure.... if they read all the lecture notes and text books a med student does during their first two years.... but that would probably make you no different than the med students themselves.


I suppose a premed bio major (with many upperdivision courses) maybe able to do decent (probably not in the 90s) on the MS1 material; but there isnt any premed anywhere that prepares their students for MS2.

Either way this is a stupid question.. unless if you re skeeming to fake a medical school diploma and hope to get into a US residency.??

 

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Sure.... if they read all the lecture notes and text books a med student does during their first two years.... but that would probably make you no different than the med students themselves.


I suppose a premed bio major (with many upperdivision courses) maybe able to do decent (probably not in the 90s) on the MS1 material; but there isnt any premed anywhere that prepares their students for MS2.

Either way this is a stupid question.. unless if you re skeeming to fake a medical school diploma and hope to get into a US residency.??

its not a stupid question as anyone that goes to the caribbean or india to do their medical school training has essentially "bought" a medical degree.

Fact of the matter is, practicing in one of those places if your an IMG is not a feasible option.

Most people that go this route are from high school and are essentially learning pre-med courses due to the introductory nature of the material being taught by the teachers overseas.

 

[McGillGrad]

its not a stupid question as anyone that goes to the caribbean or india to do their medical school training has essentially "bought" a medical degree.

Fact of the matter is, practicing in one of those places if your an IMG is not a feasible option.

Most people that go this route are from high school and are essentially learning pre-med courses due to the introductory nature of the material being taught by the teachers overseas.

It is a naive question because you don't have enough knowledge to form an educated opinion.

Didn't you just graduate high school?

 

[NRAI2001]

its not a stupid question as anyone that goes to the caribbean or india to do their medical school training has essentially "bought" a medical degree.

Fact of the matter is, practicing in one of those places if your an IMG is not a feasible option.

Most people that go this route are from high school and are essentially learning pre-med courses due to the introductory nature of the material being taught by the teachers overseas.

If you mean bought as in studied for 10 hrs a day for 2 years and had lab 4 hrs a day for 3 to 4 days a week..

Introductory nature ..haha

 

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If you mean bought as in studied for 10 hrs a day for 2 years and had lab 4 hrs a day for 3 to 4 days a week..

Introductory nature ..haha

is that how it works at grenada?

 

[NRAI2001]

is that how it works at grenada?

Yup..👍