I cant understand divine lol especially since I only watch stuff on at least 1.5 speed. OME is overrated. UW is fire as always. And i agree my step 1 knowledge has carried me far on these comats so far
Yeah I can agree on Step 1 knowledge being way more helpful for 3rd year than a lot of comments on SDN and reddit led me believe.
He has a specific set of videos on YouTube for the IM shelf. Go on his website and find them so you can download the audio.
OME is pointless. Don't waste time except maybe right before a rotation of you are truly out of your element.
Yes, I've heard of 10 KCU people getting COVID this past week, not including myself.
I'm more concerned about individual hospitals starting to kick out students which will lead to the school just pulling everyone again. The hospital I'm at now is apparently planning to stop allowing visitors again next week so I feel like it's only a matter of time before they kick out students.
Oof
Yeah, I'm really trying to keep a positive mindset but I'm starting to get nervous. I'm hoping that since we are not allowed to see COVID patients anyways they'll keep us, but I just don't know what to expect. I'd feel more comfortable if we had our own home hospital, but I doubt all of these outside institutions care too much about us and that's what makes me nervous.
Yeah guess all we can do is pray.
I did the same thing! I can't believe how far we've come.
It has been quite the journey. I remember how much self worth I put, and sometimes still do, into those pre clinical exams. If you told M1 me that I would even make it to M3 I would probably have been doubtful lol.
I had the crazy realization a couple of weeks ago that we'll be actual doctors in 1.5 years. It's insane.
lol not if my lack of self confidence gets it's way
I've stopped monitoring too. I got concerned when I heard they were stopping visitors again at my hospital. I'm trying not to think too much about it because it makes me super stressed. I (admittedly, very incorrectly) thought we would be out of the woods by this point.
Eh, I'm kind of iffy on this. I agree we shouldn't be seeing COVID/COVID-suspected patients (which I have not been), but considering how essential rotations are to us becoming competent physicians, I'm not sure pulling us is the right move. I see both sides of the argument for sure, though.
I finished UW but did some UWise questions as well. I don't really feel strongly about them. Some seem a little too advanced for our training but a lot of people swear by them!
I’ve never even heard of Uwise. OB/Gyn was my highest COMAT. I did a sprinkle of Uworld, half of comquest, and studied via reading related to my patients every day.
Cool, thanks guys!
On psych rn and take my comat thursday. I basically just did 15-20 UW questions per day starting day 1 of the rotation which has left open about a little less than a week to rip through comquest leading up to the exam where I do blocks of 40-50 timed to simulate the comat since as everyone knows comats can be very different than UWorld (often easier but the wordage and HY is different between the two). I listened to Emma Holiday and Dr. High Yield the first week on my commute to get a brief overview for the rotation and will most definitely watch them again two days before my exam. I also listened to OME on 1.5 speed twice but didn't find it really that helpful tbh. Emma and Dr. HY are absolute fire though so I definitely would watch those at least once. Overall, get ready to chill a lot and have a life during psych lol these next few weeks will be a mini vacation (other than studying 2 hours per day which I do at the hospital I am literally chilling HARD and get to come home everyday (sometimes at noon lmao) and watch netflix/workout and do whatever i want its actually so awesome
Sounds all too familiar. My IM rotation was wards based on teaching service with residents and they expected a lot of me but it was a great learning environment. Other than that its been basically a joke. I didnt mind the challenge on IM because I want to do GI so IM is realy the only rotation I care about. I am pretty nervous about my aways at places I actually want to go to because I feel like i am going to look like a doofus with the low expectations and poor quality of my rotations (minus IM). I rotate with some of the M4s who are MD students from other hospitals who come for electives and they are rockstars with presenting and their overal knowledge. Like i love that my mental health rn with how chill everything is superb but like I dont want the chill level to bite me in the ass for auditions. Also those med students that say M3 sucks and it rivals M2 in terms of sucky-ness can literally gtfo lol there is no comparison. M3 is basically a vacation compared to M2. M2 was the worst year of my life lmao
Yes! I have heard the same but my only thing is that doing an audition at these places gives me the opportunity to get a letter from academic IM faculty which can go a long way for a DO applicant at the upper tier uni IM programs. High board scores and honors grades will only get me so far since most people applying to those types of places have both. other than that it comes down to research and letters and i have zero research so lol
Fellow KCU student and I Agree that this year seems much more chill than I expected. I Get your concern after seeing those 4th years but honestly I thought the same of myself about for clinical rotations after talking to some third years last December/January. I was expected to be that knowledgeable and put together in only a few months? So far it has turned out alright, at least on paper.
This is my plan for next year, I don't plan on being at my core site at all. I've started to gather where I want to do them, but the real issue is deciding the order.
I yell at comquest a lot. the explanations are also ass
No, the surgery questions cover everything. This advice is from back when the surgery portion of UWorld barely had any questions, it's at like 500+ now. I just did UWorld.
Sounds good. I finish all of comquest today, I did about 60% of uworld, maybe i can finish those up too before friday.
Ugh. That's gonna be my first COMAT - I take it in January and I'm scared. It's gonna suck.
The UWorld questions are great. Theyre hard but fair and actually teach you psych. the DO banks are a ****show. Youll be fine though (youre obviously a good test taker-youre in the 700s club lol)
I heard the psych COMAT was stupidly hard and one where people tend to do below their average so I guess this makes sense lol
It makes a lot of sense now lol its weird because some of my friends who want to go into psych did horrible on step and comlex but honored psych. These comats are such a toss up
this is so weird because on the MD side I thought I've always heard that psych is the easiest one.
exactly! samesies
yooooooo congrats bro! FM comat is tough thats a huge win
