Step 1 Study Group Ideas?

[VeerTheTIGuy]

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So as part of our course, our last 12-week semester is dedicated to writing a dissertation, meaning there is very little class time. A few other North American IMGs and I were considering forming a small Step 1 Study Group. The thing is, none of us have really ever been in a study group before, and are not sure exactly what to do. I mean, how much material can you actually cover during a week if you're also working on an intense paper?

The concept I had was just to assign a certain amount of material a week (maybe using FA as a guide), and then get together and go over stuff that confuses people, and also to do a few relevant practice questions. What do you all think? Any other methods that would be more beneficial?

This wouldn't be a replacement for proper hardcore studying, which will be during our summer break, but just a thing to get the ball rolling while we're all still together.

Thanks🙂

 

[myrtle]

That's pretty much what my study group is doing - we're meeting once a week and we divide up the material in advance to teach it to each other. You have a more in depth understanding of the material you taught and although questions are a good idea, we usually never make it there, it takes up too much time!

Overall, I think that group study is good to stay on top of stuff and in sync with others but there's definitely a lot that everyone will need to do on their own.

Good luck!

 

[VeerTheTIGuy]

so during the week, everyone is covering something different, and then try and teach it all to one another? does that work well? (that sounds mean...i'm just curious)

i figured we'd all go over similar material so that we could discuss it at the end of the week

 

[Ursus Martimus]

We liked to get together at a comfortable place (ie Starbucks or even a bar) each of us would take a clinical vignette book (i.e Underground clinical vignettes) and take turns reading a case and seeing who could guess the case or teach something interesting to the group about the case. We would go around the group eaching reading a case from the book. This is a nice socialization time to relax and still learn a little