Step 2 CS without core rotations

[RN1]

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Is it possible to pass Step 2 CS without having completed all core rotations (no peds+obgyn)? How much of a disadvantage would this put me in?

How long do you recommend that an IMG should study for the step 2 cs? Is FA enough?

 

[OveractiveBrain]

(1) Can you speak english? Like well. If yes, proceed to last line

(2) What you do in clinic has literally NOTHING to do with what you do in the CS exam. You must go through the motions, doing everything the way they want it done. No shortcuts, no logic, just wrote memory. Most patients are adults. Most patients are medicine. The "peds" patient I had was 17. Having missed some cores means absolutely nothing.

(3) First Aid CS is designed for the FMG. Its perfect. It tells you what to do, in what order, and if you can memorize well, literally everything you should ask and do. If you are worried about failing, get a study partner and go through every case twice. This is MEGA overkill for studying, but if it will be your barrier, practice hard. It should take you about 2 weeks to do every case twice.

(4) Step 2 CS is a joke exam and you will rock the socks off it as long as you speak english

 

[boobelle]

(2) What you do in clinic has literally NOTHING to do with what you do in the CS exam. You must go through the motions, doing everything the way they want it done. No shortcuts, no logic, just wrote memory. Most patients are adults. Most patients are medicine. The "peds" patient I had was 17. Having missed some cores means absolutely nothing.

I definitely agree that CS is easy, and if you have basic communication and interpersonal skills you're more than half way there. And yes, if you can memorize FA then you'll probably do fine...but the OP should know that when US students fail, it's usually because they fail the knowledge-base portion...and because they didn't take the exam seriously enough to prepare for it.

What makes the exam so easy (other than, you know, speaking basic English) is that people *do* take it after their cores, when 98% of the content is obvious and doesn't require rote memorization...whereas if you take it early third year, all of that isn't necessarily second nature yet.