STEP 1 help
Started by chemwiz14
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Sleep. You need to gather strength for second year and USMLE studying.
Personally, I think you should reward yourself and have some fun. You've earned it! 😀 Not to mention, you want to be as re-energized as possible for a very intense year 2.
But if you really feel the need to get a head start...
Maybe start annotating First Aid with topics you covered in Year 1. With a special emphasis on path (if you were taught any of it) along with conceptual based subjects such as physio, embryo, immuno and biochem. Pharmacology and micro tend to be much shorter term memory subjects and (imo) aren't quite as helpful to study this early in the game. But just about anything you can fill First Aid with would be useful (and save a lot of time down the road).
Look at your year 2 schedule and consider planning your summer prep around that. Our program is systems based, and we study neuroanatomy at the beginning of year 2, so I read up a little on that (mostly Clinical Neuroanatomy Made Ridiculously Simple) to get my feet wet on the subject.
I'm sure a lot of other people in the forums are going to recommend listening to Goljan and getting a head start on Rapid Review Path. Thats not a bad idea either.
Again, I think all of this is overkill for most people in your position. There's something to be said for just laying low and vegging out for a couple of months.
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to prepare for what I'm doing right now I did all the things that I can't currently do during official board prep time.....ie get f&*ked up and sleep all day
if you insist on doing anything....I would suggest to start collecting your board review books and basic ideas for your boards review plan next year.....this way you can use the relevant sections of those books during M2.....if you're in a systems based curriculum this works really well....and if you're not then I would review Physio before learning each section of path in M2....none of this involves doing any real studying during the summer.....but it will help to hit the ground running when you start your board prep next spring
To elaborate, the most important thing is to be in peak condition for Year 2.
I recommend growing an amazing mustache, like serious handlebar style, it'll be about as useful as any studying you do over the summer.
So just kick back, relax, and get to work on that walrus 'stache.
chem whiz where do u go?
Study the stuff you did bad on during first year. the boards will test you on everything you had in med school. And don't believe the people who say its only second year stuff. my test was half first year half second year material. But I wouldn't recommend studying hard, study for only a couple of hours a day, enjoy the rest of the day with your friends. This will be your last summer until your probably 40 or something
ill second barmays advice. Study only stuff you are weak in because it will be those subjects that will come back to haunt you and maybe even cost you 10-20points depending on the subjects Then your next focus should be acing your 2nd year classes as its where you get most of the points from.
