USMLE Step one live courses

[hankholiday]

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Hey everyone,
So I finished Med one and med two, but that was 2 years ago. Now I want to go back to finish med school. Next step is USMLE step 1. I was planning on attending a live course for the USMLE especially considering I forgot everything. I wanted your help on recommending a program to attend. Ive read about so many so Im kinda lost. BTW, I barely remember 1/2 the stuff I took in med one and two. Should I study all of it over again before I attend these courses, or is a couple weeks alone to refresh the material in my head enough beforehand. Im living in Canada now, so Im basically willing to travel anywhere 😀
Any help?

 

[EazyE1907]

I would highly recommend not taking any course until you are familiar with FA to the point where you are doing at least 50% on uworld. I know from experience because i did the same and it was a total was of time and money. The courses whether its kaplan, PASS, or whatever are REVIEW courses and they go so fast it's impossible to actually LEARN something you haven't had before or if it's been a while since you've seen the material which 2 years proves to be a very looooong time.

IMHO y0u don't need a live course. Get DIT and go through FA with it. annotate the extra stuff into your FA, fill out all the quizzes and finish the program. be better if you do it first by subject. Then sit-down and start going through world qbank. untimed, tutor-mode, especially by subject so you could make the connections. Have your FA open while doing the questions, read EVERY single explanation and write WHATEVER is not in FA into your FA and take notes on a separate sheet of paper for concepts you are having difficulty with. In between doing qbank make sure you allot a couple of hours a day to read your annotated FA just to make sure you keep everything fresh. When your done with that, take an NBME and see where your at. if you are failing, then maybe your study habits/ or you way of analyzing the concepts may not be up to par. THEN is when you should consider a review course. But in all honesty, if you just did that above, you would most likely pass your first NBME and even rock the real thing. good luck!