Is OMG OMT the pathoma of OMM? I have saverese but i dread reading out a book. Im trying to get the confidence to ditch saverese for those 3-4 days after my step. I want to buy the subscription but havent found much people talking about it!
Yes, it is of a similar style to Pathoma - that is a great comparison. It's a newer resource which is why I suppose it's still not as widely known as 'Sav. Now let me be clear, I
hated Savarese when I used it for Level I and vowed to find something better for Level II, so this response will be obviously biased. That's when I found OMG OMT (which at the time had recently launched). I'm going to give OMG OMT a nice plug here because it helped me immensely and when I was on the interview trail, PDs were asking me why my Level II was so much higher than my Level I; I credit much of that to jumping from Savarese to OMG OMT. I am sure I got some interviews that I wouldn't have otherwise gotten because of this improvement.
So, OMG OMT does a Pathoma-style setup of chapters. Each chapter (topic, for example "Cranial") is broken into 3 components: didactic video, clinical video, and post-lesson quiz. The didactic video is usually a 15ish minute lecture explaining everything, the clinical video is usually a 5-10ish minute video on how to setup the treatments that get tested on COMLEX (LOVED this part -- I always struggled with the 'how would you initially position the patient in this example?' type questions), and a post-lesson quiz of 5-10 questions which summarize the high yield concepts from that chapter. iirc there are 13-15 chapters. It does remind me of Sattar because the narrator stops a lot and gives you the high yield "this is how examiners go after this" which I appreciated because in Savarese I was always confused and the pages offered little explanation and its damn near impossible to google an OMM topic for clarification. Honestly, I think textbooks for COMLEX/USMLE will soon be extinct. OMG OMT, Pathoma, Sketchy, they do it right.
Lastly, OMG also has a mock COMLEX exam which tests all topics (OMM, micro, renal, etc.) and its composition is supposed to mimic the real thing (ie, 20% OMM questions, 12ish% micro, etc). I liked the exam because I took it 3 times and it comes with full question explanations, unlike the other practice exams on the market which weren't telling me what I did wrong but simply giving me a score. The practice exam comes with the subscription so I also didn't have to pay extra
Figured it was a nice freebie in addition to the NBMEs and stuff I had planned to use.
tldr: its really a matter of time before video review makes textbooks obsolete. OMG OMT is excellent and I highly recommend it. If you prefer videos to reading, you'll like OMG OMT better than Savarese. But if you are already a master of OMM I'm sure Savarese will continue to be fine for you. It's personal preference really.
