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Schools that take Step 1 after/during 3rd year have an unfair advantage?
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<blockquote data-quote="ensuii" data-source="post: 12424503" data-attributes="member: 94695"><p>Performance on Step 1 is largely dependent on the amount of time you put into it. Personally, I took about 1 month of dedicated study time before taking it (although I did study "casually" throughout the year) and after after 3 weeks or so I kindof felt like I was reaching the point of diminishing returns per unit time invested. I'm a DO student so I guess I could've probably held off on taking it until sometime during my third year. I really don't think I would've liked doing it though for the simple reason that it distracts you from your rotations and step 2 studying. On most of my rotations, I have reading assignments from my preceptors as well as readings I needed to do for my shelf/rotation exams. It's hard enough trying to pull an 8-5 workday (or more depending on the rotation) and then doing assloads of rotation/step 2 specific reading. </p><p></p><p>I think the references you made are more indicative of people having more opportunity to invest time into step 1 studying. If schools aren't giving students a fair amount of independent study time before step 1, than yeah, moving it to be sometime during 3rd year will probably help a lot. Is it unfair? Not really. 3-5 weeks of independent study time is work schools should aim for, IMO. At my school, we finished most of our hardcore systems in April and had fairly minor stuff like ACLS/OSCEs in early May. I think I really didn't go hardcore until after my last system and I was scoring fairly average on the NBMEs late-May/early-June (mid 250s). If I would've taken step 1 today after having studied all year around, I think I might've received a score <10pts higher but I don't think I would've gotten as much out of my rotations or prepared for step 2 as well.</p><p></p><p>Don't worry about getting clinic/real patient interaction before rotations for step 1 preparedness, imo. Just make a plan of how you're going to study in advance and try to execute it well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ensuii, post: 12424503, member: 94695"] Performance on Step 1 is largely dependent on the amount of time you put into it. Personally, I took about 1 month of dedicated study time before taking it (although I did study "casually" throughout the year) and after after 3 weeks or so I kindof felt like I was reaching the point of diminishing returns per unit time invested. I'm a DO student so I guess I could've probably held off on taking it until sometime during my third year. I really don't think I would've liked doing it though for the simple reason that it distracts you from your rotations and step 2 studying. On most of my rotations, I have reading assignments from my preceptors as well as readings I needed to do for my shelf/rotation exams. It's hard enough trying to pull an 8-5 workday (or more depending on the rotation) and then doing assloads of rotation/step 2 specific reading. I think the references you made are more indicative of people having more opportunity to invest time into step 1 studying. If schools aren't giving students a fair amount of independent study time before step 1, than yeah, moving it to be sometime during 3rd year will probably help a lot. Is it unfair? Not really. 3-5 weeks of independent study time is work schools should aim for, IMO. At my school, we finished most of our hardcore systems in April and had fairly minor stuff like ACLS/OSCEs in early May. I think I really didn't go hardcore until after my last system and I was scoring fairly average on the NBMEs late-May/early-June (mid 250s). If I would've taken step 1 today after having studied all year around, I think I might've received a score <10pts higher but I don't think I would've gotten as much out of my rotations or prepared for step 2 as well. Don't worry about getting clinic/real patient interaction before rotations for step 1 preparedness, imo. Just make a plan of how you're going to study in advance and try to execute it well. [/QUOTE]
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