Step 1 scheduling help

[tvelocity514]

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I was wondering if anyone could please give me some advice regarding step 1 preparations throughout the year please (from those that have already taken Step 1 if possible).

I bought USMLERx and Kaplan Qbanks to do during my classes prior to UWORLD. I did really well during M1, and I think I'm just finding it hard to get out of the habit of not just studying everything in detail in the ppt's that are given by our professors. I was wondering if anyone was able to use these resources and how you were able to accomplish this while keeping up with school.

Currently I'm using First Aid, pathoma, and school ppts. I don't mind getting B's on the tests if it means I can do more questions to better prepare myself for boards. I'm just having a really hard time making the schedule work. Eg. Week 1 material just study all material since you probably don't know enough. Start wk 2 and maybe do 2 hours a day of maybe USMLERx or Kaplan and just learn from it even if you haven't covered it yet? I'm not going to write any of the stuff from the answer explanations in first aid... I just would like to get through all the questions if possible and am having a hard time making a schedule for that. I take my exam early May.

Thanks for the help!

 

[doctorknownothing]

What up man,

I applaud you for looking to the future, but it really depends on your schools system. Is it systemic or discipline based? If it's disciplined base i would honestly just start building a flash card deck on old ms1 stuff and add new material as you go. Work in some q banks focused on anatomy/embryo/physio/biochem daily to keep information fresh while reading and understanding the explanation. This will help you in Path and Pharm, while building a great foundation for the steps physio. I say this because MS2 is where all the interconnection between subjects happens, and thats where the magic of medicine starts to form. To figure out the pathology of the disease, then to jump to the treatment, then to side effect is just over the heads of year 1 knowledge.

You have the gift of time, stick to studying the details like you were before... i think all of us who prepped for the step wished we mastered every detail as it came instead of trying to fix foundation problems that we binged and purged during exam week... and the weekend after haha... Little bit of talent and a whole lot of hard work will get you there.

Or you could jam through all of Kaplan in 2-3 months, month 4 do pathoma and DIT while annotating First Aid and doing RX 2 block questions daily with explanations... month 5 start Uworld 2-3 blocks with explanations while creating a log of missed questions while hitting the lange pharmacology/micro cards and a chapter of first aid daily... month 6 NBME 11, and every week do another one, while progressively getting more passes through first aid. Month 7 Focus on weaknesses that become obviously apparent because you miss the same questions over and over again... then May exam time!!!! it may sound like I'm trolling but i think me and my friends and most people i talked to fantasized about doing this. You would literally be a HIGH YIELD MACHINE!!!!