step 1 review @ university of missouri

[brlife]

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has anyone take this review course for step 1 or know someone who has? seems like a good course if not for the price (8 grand) if anyone has any please post. im thinking about taking it but want to hear from some people who may know more about it before i dish out 8 grand. thanks

here is the link http://www.umkc.edu/ipp/step1.html

 

[VitaminK]

I actually go to UMKC and although I never personally took the class I do know some people who did. From what people who did take the course they really seemed to like it. I chose to do the Kaplan way and was very pleased with Kaplan's classes. There were a couple people who took Kaplan first, failed Step 1 and then took the IPP class and was then able to pass Step 1. I don't know if that necessarily means one course is better than the other or they just studied harder the second time.

 

[mjl1717]

From a friends who has taken that umkc course I hear its very good.
Actually it seems like Kaplan and the other review courses are playing 2nd fiddle to that umkc course and the Pass program in Illinois!

 

[Daiphon]

for thoughts from the other side of the coin...

2 of my really good friends went to the KC course; neither had actually taken boards before they took the KC course... both a) didn't do as well as they hoped and b) thought the course would be a better resource for those who had failed step 1 at least once.

other than that, they had no complaints about the material... they thought it was very thorough. they just didn't think it was geared to the first-time taker...

my $.02
-t

 

[mjl1717]

Yes, thats fairly factual -those courses umkc and the pass program are geared for students who missed the exam by only a few points. [Not a 1st time test taker] If $$ is no problem one should go for it!

 

[alfie58]

I personally attended this program and found the information was flawed and the instructors were not qualified to be teaching medical education. Some had no science background at all. The head guy had a master's degree in physiology. No pharm was offered. Path was a joke and they spent most of their lecturing on complicated physio stuff. No ethics, no psych and little to no biochem. Students who had failed miserably was trying to teach other students. The days were long and not productive. The cost was high for the course and living. I do not recommend this course. Some of the students had taken the UMKC course and failed and was back again. It is recommended by many medical schools because they are under the impression that since it is held at a major university then it should be good. Not true. The average point raise is quoted to be around 10 points for the 9 week course. Well even a blind squirrel can find an acorn - for those that passed under these conditions.

 

[bigfrank]

Check out UMKC's Step I board scores -- they are dismal, as is their pass rate for the Step I. I would definitely go with Kaplan.

 

[12R34Y]

I know that our school sends the kids who fail step 1 to the UMKC course. Of course they pay for it out of their pockets, but they go to it regardless.

Having said that. don't know how they do.

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