Do you recommend a COMAT-specific qbank in addition to UWorld? My plan had been UWorld only, but since I came so close to honoring I'm wondering if adding a COMAT-specific bank would help. Especially since UWorld doesn't have that many surgery questions. School's running a deal on the COMQUEST COMAT questions right now, so wondering if I should just bite the bullet and buy.
I’ve never been a fan of COMQUEST but I know some people like it. Our school gave us both COMQUEST and the COMBANK (truelearn) comat q banks. Those are the comat specific questions I did, I thought they were pretty helpful.
Hmm ok. Yeah I didn't use any DO specific banks besides the OMM questions for level 1. I got a 111 on FM (honors 112+, no HP) but only did dorian + a couple hundred AMBOSS questions while I waited for my school to sort out whether they would be purchasing UWorld for us or not (big surprise to all, the answer is no). Maybe it'll go better this time around using UWorld. Just trying to push myself over that edge for my own personal sanity haha
Well thats good to hear im not alone lol did you end up doing better than you thought on FM comat?
Thats fire lol congrats on being done with FM. Glad to be done with surg it was so boring to me lol
GI alll day lol you still IR or DR?
I don't think I've met a single person who walked out of a COMAT feeling good. But people generally do better than they think. The curve must be insane!
RIP surgery is my next one. But yeah I think this is normal lol, I felt similarly after FM and did well in the end.
DR is a really cool field. You nailed Step you should be more than fine. Same here I need that prededicated Step 1 energy lol im so burnt still.
Was just talking to some classmates about this. I didn't really think I was that burnt out from Step 1 studying until I started doing practice questions for my COMAT. I completed maybe 30% of the questions and said enough is enough lol.
thats how i feel. I was lucky enough to get surg and IM first! lmfao (kidding obvi). Took Step comlex and surg comat all within 4 weeks following like an 8 month covid dedicated and 3 days between taking step and starting surgery. I need like 2 months of vacation
First COMAT for me was today, psych as well. Honestly surprised me with the number of questions asking for the most esoteric answers for common problems, and I honestly felt good given my QBank performance going into it. But as some of y’all were saying, even two months out I still feel the damage from boards study lol.
Tender points are not high yield at all. Maybe the ones in the pelvis like iliacus and the naming of ones around asis but not worth your time imo.
That’s why literally just finishing IM uworld is such a feat. I couldn’t and just poured everything into anki.
Damn dude youve done way more than Ive done and I need to honor it lol my goal is 1000 questions half UWorld and half Comquest (im taking the comat which i heard is way easier than UWorld) and watching all the OME vids but thats really it. We also only get 3.5 weeks so hitting 1400 UW questions is not happening
Realistically Ill probs hit 700 questions too 1000 is a longshot for me. Im really only able to do 25-30 questions and 3 OME vids per day during the week. I tried 40 per day and its impossible
definitely
This is fantastic lol. I was on my walk when the thought struck me, there isn’t a board Exam to take 4th year, or shelves I’m going to do so much hiking
We have to take EM comat in 4th year even under normal years, however I also haven’t taken peds or FM yet due to pandemic.
Just EM for us as fourth years I believe.
I had 4 of 8 weeks of Peds, and 5.5 of 8 weeks of FM due to getting pulled from ending of 3rd year because of pandemic. School keeps giving conflicting info and can’t decide if and when we have to finish them live or online and if and when we can take the comats from M3.
Yeah thats a lot lol so I heard UWorld isnt too great for Surg so I didnt do it. I used comquest only and ended up with a 116. Felt like I failed the **** out of it-I only was confident in 25 answers of the total 125 questions lol. However the comquest score prediction was very accurate for me and others that took it before me. There are about 300 or so comquest questions and the explanations were solid imo. I just did those and watched the OME vids 2x
UW being inadequate for surgery was an opinion that keeps getting repeated but it comes from a time before they added like 400+ questions lol.
They are not completely mutually exclusive so please try not to fall for a trap. Keep working hard. That said, a truly great LOR is far more important than honoring a rotation. The crux of the issue is finding out who will actually write the magic words versus someone who is enthusiastic about writing a letter but isn't going to write a particularly good letter. Just something to add to your neuroticism.
You can apply through VSAS (do this the day it opens for the program you want). You can also apply through ClinicianNexus. Some programs aren't on VSAS. You can start as early as January. I had all my aways secured by March outside of VSAS (then Covid happened, but that's a whole other story). You can check the program's website for info on how they do away rotations.
Yeah the comats are a ton easier than UWorld lol thats good to hear though! Take it next thurs
