Skipping out on UsmleRx and doing Brosencephalon's FA anki deck instead?

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Thoughts? I initially wanted to do both before dedicated along with Uworld but it's taking way more time than I thought. My main goal is to get through Uworld once and to get a comfortable grasp of FA before dedicated. For those that stuck with Brosencephalon's deck, did it help you retain FA enough to done well without UsmleRx?
 
Rx shows you how to apply info to the vignettes. Once in awhile there's a gem in there too that isn't in first aid. Idk what you should do though. I have no experience with bros.
 
Brahventus said:
Thoughts? I initially wanted to do both before dedicated along with Uworld but it's taking way more time than I thought. My main goal is to get through Uworld once and to get a comfortable grasp of FA before dedicated. For those that stuck with Brosencephalon's deck, did it help you retain FA enough to done well without UsmleRx?
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That deck is a beast!
 
Bros deck is not realistic to do and keep up with reviews (well over 10k cards) I think RX is a better bet then do a few specific areas of bros deck that you're weak in starting around spring break.
 
Ophthoseidon said:
Rx shows you how to apply info to the vignettes. Once in awhile there's a gem in there too that isn't in first aid. Idk what you should do though. I have no experience with bros.
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Isn't Uworld used to learn how to apply FA facts into vignettes? I was thinking of maybe just referencing FA w/ Uworld throughout, along with Bro's cards. I can comfortably to 200-300 anki cards a day but adding Rx to that would be really tough.
 
I've never done Bros deck, but I do use RX. I'm treating it just like you would UWorld, but more in conjunction with my first pass of FA, and leaving UWorld for the last 3 months
 
Brahventus said:
Thoughts? I initially wanted to do both before dedicated along with Uworld but it's taking way more time than I thought. My main goal is to get through Uworld once and to get a comfortable grasp of FA before dedicated. For those that stuck with Brosencephalon's deck, did it help you retain FA enough to done well without UsmleRx?
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what are you going to do during dedicated then???
 
But wait, bros deck is mainly memorization whereas rx is an actual qbank. Hence why I'm doing both. I wouldn't not do rx. I'd focus on that and add in bros
 
wjs010 said:
But wait, bros deck is mainly memorization whereas rx is an actual qbank. Hence why I'm doing both. I wouldn't not do rx. I'd focus on that and add in bros
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True but adding in Uworld into that makes it hard to keep up with it so I'm just gonna hope Uworld will replace Rx in terms of applying what I memorized from bro's and reference FA throughout.
 
Brahventus said:
True but adding in Uworld into that makes it hard to keep up with it so I'm just gonna hope Uworld will replace Rx in terms of applying what I memorized from bro's and reference FA throughout.
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Brahventus I know you started a post but I didn't see anything more... When are you starting uworld? I kinda did some of the rx q's systems in the fall we when did cardio, pulm, renal, and MSS/skin... So I still have a few more system to do as 2nd year goes on, but there's actually not that many questions on rx.. There's like 60 questions per system. I figured there would be 200 per system
 
wjs010 said:
Brahventus I know you started a post but I didn't see anything more... When are you starting uworld? I kinda did some of the rx q's systems in the fall we when did cardio, pulm, renal, and MSS/skin... So I still have a few more system to do as 2nd year goes on, but there's actually not that many questions on rx.. There's like 60 questions per system. I figured there would be 200 per system
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Im still debating whether i should do Rx until February and then switch to Uworld until dedicated. That would mean i would need to do 30 questions a day along with Bro's anki deck. Do you think that's doable?
 
Brahventus said:
Im still debating whether i should do Rx until February and then switch to Uworld until dedicated. That would mean i would need to do 30 questions a day along with Bro's anki deck. Do you think that's doable?
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I do think that's doable.
 
wjs010 said:
How else does anybody study if not like this?
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i geuss youre right. What would one do during dedicated then if they completed rx, uworld, and im assuming already read thru FA? Grab another reveiw source?
 
asdf123g said:
i geuss youre right. What would one do during dedicated then if they completed rx, uworld, and im assuming already read thru FA? Grab another reveiw source?
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I don't think that's possible unless you dabbled in rx during the first part of 2nd year. I've done some systems in rx but have several more (just haven't done them in classes yet) . I think uworld, 3 passes of FA, and pathoma as well as bros deck should be sufficient. I do think it might be possible to do 2 passes of uworld, but probably pretty difficult. Oh and I mean all of this for like 5 months, not during dedicated. Lol dedicatee is 1 month right?
 
wjs010 said:
I don't think that's possible unless you dabbled in rx during the first part of 2nd year. I've done some systems in rx but have several more (just haven't done them in classes yet) . I think uworld, 3 passes of FA, and pathoma as well as bros deck should be sufficient. I do think it might be possible to do 2 passes of uworld, but probably pretty difficult. Oh and I mean all of this for like 5 months, not during dedicated. Lol dedicatee is 1 month right?
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Yeah I go to a DO school so they purposefully give us only 4 weeks so that we have a better chance at scoring lower and thus ending up in primary care
 
Brahventus said:
Yeah I go to a DO school so they purposefully give us only 4 weeks so that we have a better chance at scoring lower and thus ending up in primary care
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Me too. Lol. Except we don't get any
 
Brahventus said:
Yeah I go to a DO school so they purposefully give us only 4 weeks so that we have a better chance at scoring lower and thus ending up in primary care
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ive heard this theory before. Do most people think its legit or some tinfoil hat conspiracy thing?
 
asdf123g said:
ive heard this theory before. Do most people think its legit or some tinfoil hat conspiracy thing?
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Yeah man it's what DO schools pride themselves in so why not try to meet their quota?
 
To be fair, most DO students are poorer test-takers than their MD counterparts (as evidenced by lower stats), so if anything the short dedicated study period reflects understanding on the administration's behalf that their students probably wouldn't fare too much better if given additional time, or rather, well enough to be more competitive for high-end specialties.
 
Shark7500 said:
To be fair, most DO students are poorer test-takers than their MD counterparts (as evidenced by lower stats), so if anything the short dedicated study period reflects understanding on the administration's behalf that their students probably wouldn't fare too much better if given additional time, or rather, well enough to be more competitive for high-end specialties.
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That sounds like it'd be more logical to give us poor test takers even more time!
 
There is some sort of conspiracy. At my school (DO) they purposely try to fail as many students as possible for courses so we only end up in family medicine. However, it has unfortunate side effects in the policy in that we have lost over a quarter of our class now, and lost a lot more this past semester of 2nd year. First year class they could have easily passed multiple people by curving a tiny bit more than they did, but they chose not to.
 
PIacebo said:
There is some sort of conspiracy. At my school (DO) they purposely try to fail as many students as possible for courses so we only end up in family medicine. However, it has unfortunate side effects in the policy in that we have lost over a quarter of our class now, and lost a lot more this past semester of 2nd year. First year class they could have easily passed multiple people by curving a tiny bit more than they did, but they chose not to.
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Yeah at my school OMM is 10% of our systems grade and if we fail the OMM portion we fail the whole systems course despite a passing systems grade and a passing overall grade. We've already lost a few students just because of that.
 
PIacebo said:
There is some sort of conspiracy. At my school (DO) they purposely try to fail as many students as possible for courses so we only end up in family medicine. However, it has unfortunate side effects in the policy in that we have lost over a quarter of our class now, and lost a lot more this past semester of 2nd year. First year class they could have easily passed multiple people by curving a tiny bit more than they did, but they chose not to.
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woah woah what?! wouldnt this school lose accreditation or something for too high of attrition rate? that's insane!!!
 
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