How do the prep courses offered at medical schools compare to commercial prep courses? I know this is a very general question, but am I right in suspecting that the former are geared more towards individual students needs (given that profs already know their students and have been around them for a while) which is why students score higher on their exams?
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Unless if the profs at the school are NBME question writer's, they are really depending on what they read in FA and other sources to know what to focus on in those courses. Besides, if they were so good at preparing students for step 1, they would have incorporated that into their regular teaching during school time. Instead they chose to waste time on random low yeild crap so why would i suddenly trust them to give me nothing but high yeild material. I also dont think they know individual students' needs as well as you may think. med school classes are pretty large these days.
Plus everytime you have to pay someone huge sums of money for a service, its in their interest to make sure that they know more about how to achieve the required results more than anyone else who could provide the same service for free or cheaper. Thus, i suspect that the prep course folks may have a better track record than a course done by your regular teachers at school.
if your basic science knowledge is good then, don't bother taking any expensive prep courses, first aid+goljan+uworld is gold, if you really want to prepare then you can chose gunner or DIT. Good luck
