Study Plan Feedback

[Bouddha]

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How does this seem for a study plan (I am shooting for the moon on Step 1, not just a pass).

Sep-Dec

Pathoma (1st pass)
Kaplan Qbank (1st pass)
First Aid 2011 (1st pass)
Doctors in Training (primer)

Dec-Jan

Kaplan Qbank (2nd "high yield" pass)
First Aid 2011 (2nd pass)

Jan-Apr

Pathoma (2nd pass)
UWorld (1st pass)
First Aid 2013 (1st pass + annotation)
Doctors in Training (part 1 - questions)

May-June

Doctors in Training (part 2 - lectures)
UWorld (2nd pass)
First Aid 2013 (2nd pass)
Pathoma (3rd pass)

I plan on taking a practice test every 3 weeks from Jan-June.

 

[smartparts]

are you taking this with normal MS2 coursework? in the time it would take you to do pathoma 3 times, i would just do it once after reading RR pathology (maybe with classwork?) and then read your pathoma notes again closer to the test.

 

[Phloston]

I've made some changes:

Sep

First Aid cover-to-cover (first pass)
Microcards, by Sanjiv

Oct-Nov

USMLE Rx (tutor-mode, ~48 Qs/day, with annotations and associated FA reading)
Lange pharmacology cards

Dec

First Aid (2nd pass)
HY Cell & Molecular Bio

Sit your first NBME after you finish the 2nd pass of FA.

Jan

Kaplan Qbank (1st pass; timed; 100 Qs/day, with annotations)

Feb-Mar

UWorld (1st pass)

April-May

USMLE Rx (2nd pass)
Offline NBMEs
UWorld (2nd pass)
Sit 2 NBMEs

June

Sit the rest of the NBMEs
Re-memorize your annotated FA
Do Free-150

Sit the USMLE Step1


---> By the way, never work off of anyone else's timeline/schedule. Everyone is different, with varying strengths and weaknesses, so it's your responsibility to develop your own custom study plan. So the above is not what you should do, it's merely a skeleton from which to work off of.

 

[g8orlife]

I've made some changes:

Sep

First Aid cover-to-cover (first pass)
Microcards, by Sanjiv

Oct-Nov

USMLE Rx (tutor-mode, ~48 Qs/day, with annotations and associated FA reading)
Lange pharmacology cards

Dec

First Aid (2nd pass)
HY Cell & Molecular Bio

Sit your first NBME after you finish the 2nd pass of FA.

Jan

Kaplan Qbank (1st pass; timed; 100 Qs/day, with annotations)

Feb-Mar

UWorld (1st pass)

April-May

USMLE Rx (2nd pass)
Offline NBMEs
UWorld (2nd pass)
Sit 2 NBMEs

June

Sit the rest of the NBMEs
Re-memorize your annotated FA
Do Free-150

Sit the USMLE Step1


---> By the way, never work off of anyone else's timeline/schedule. Everyone is different, with varying strengths and weaknesses, so it's your responsibility to develop your own custom study plan. So the above is not what you should do, it's merely a skeleton from which to work off of.

I like the above. 👍
But, I don't retain as much from reading directly from FA; so, I'd actually skip the FA read in Sept and instead listen to Pathoma and follow each system with Rx questions in Full Systems (including all disciplines). I would do this from Sept-Nov.
But, that's just me. I agree with Pholston that everyone's different.

 

[Bouddha]

Thanks for the feedback. I am currently an MS2, so doing this on top of regular coursework (plus I'm married with a couple kids and working on top of everything else).

Anyway, I'll try to incorporate everyones advice, but like you said, I have to make it a plan that will work for me.

Thanks again.

 

[ijn]

I don't know of anyone who has actually gotten to the moon with DIT. It's good for passing / scoring slightly above the national average. I'd allocate that time elsewhere. Learning your MS2 material as well as you possibly can is entirely appropriate for the first semester of second year. You don't necessarily need to be in high yield mode at this point to score extremely well on STEP 1.

 

[san2]

I can't emphasize this enough. Having the Kaplan Lecture Series books along with your coursework is of great help.

Stick with what is being taught in class, and look at Kaplan alongside to make sure you know the high yield points needed for Step 1. You can also use First Aid and Kaplan ME to guide you even further.

Do Kaplan Qbank up till December trying to do as much as you can.

Once Jan hits by, then start Uworld and try to get through that 2x by the time Step 1 comes around.

 

[PMK]

Hi,
I want to have my exam in October. I've already worked on USMLE World, and First Aid, but I didn't go through Kaplan lecture notes. Yesterday I started Doctors in Training, but I don't know exactly if this is the right time for it. I haven't finished UWorld yet, but have finished more than half of questions and explanations. It seems that I'm way behind my schedule, and I'm getting confused with what resources to continue my studying. Does someone have any recommendation to help me plz.
Thx for your time.