Studying for Step 1 with Condensed Curriculum

[raiderette]

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My school is moving to a condensed pre-clinical curriculum that will be systems based. I know most people say to wait until second year to get First Aid and Uworld, but that doesn't leave much for review. When do people start in a 15-18 month curriculum?

 

[LaurenMD]

My school has 18 months of preclinical (followed by clinical year, then Step 1 studying). I didn't get started with First Aid or UWorld until my dedicated study period, and I think most of my classmates did the same.

 

[Petypet]

My school is moving to a condensed pre-clinical curriculum that will be systems based. I know most people say to wait until second year to get First Aid and Uworld, but that doesn't leave much for review. When do people start in a 15-18 month curriculum?

I started Dec of 2nd year, took the exam in June, about 6 months study time. I had 4 blocks during that time, and my dedicated time ended up being 5 or 6 weeks. My grades dropped a bit but that 6 month prep time did wonders for the board score.

 

[avgn]

My school also takes Step 1&2 after clinicals, both during second half of MS3. What to do? Annotate FA and watch Pathoma/Sketchy throughout classes and maybe do USMLERx? Saving Kaplan/UW for dedicated afterwards?

 

[Psai]

Study pathoma and do usmlerx with organ systems. Skim first aid. Kaplan LOL throw that out.
UW for dedicated and redo pathoma, read first aid. You can do uworld with organs if you want, it's not like you can "save" questions. It's beneficial to see them multiple times. However, it'll have a different impact on you though because the questions integrate a lot of topics and you can't really appreciate it fully until you've gone through everything. Also it's pretty damn expensive, 430 for the year.

 

[avgn]

Study pathoma and do usmlerx with organ systems. Skim first aid. Kaplan LOL throw that out.
UW for dedicated and redo pathoma, read first aid. You can do uworld with organs if you want, it's not like you can "save" questions. It's beneficial to see them multiple times. However, it'll have a different impact on you though because the questions integrate a lot of topics and you can't really appreciate it fully until you've gone through everything. Also it's pretty damn expensive, 430 for the year.

How's USMLERx for basic sciences? It covers FA right so it has stuff on biochem, immune, microbio, etc. Is that stuff good or only organ systems?