Tips to go from Average Step 1 score to Above-Average Step 2 score?

[dreambig2night]

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HeyGuys,

Any suggestions?


Is 'Clinical Pathophysiology Made ridiculously Simple' great for Step 2 prep? I am slightly weak on the basics.

Any highly recommended review books for Step 2?

Am doing USMLE world, but dont think it is helping much since I lack a stronger foundation.....or maybe I'm just an average test taker.

Would appreciate some responses.

thanks

 

[Law2Doc]

HeyGuys,

Any suggestions?


Is 'Clinical Pathophysiology Made ridiculously Simple' great for Step 2 prep? I am slightly weak on the basics.

Any highly recommended review books for Step 2?

Am doing USMLE world, but dont think it is helping much since I lack a stronger foundation.....or maybe I'm just an average test taker.

Would appreciate some responses.

thanks

Do World in tutor mode and read it like a textbook on everything. Whenever you hit topics you aren't familiar with, take notes, and bolster your knowledge by reading the appropriate section of Crush, Boards and Wards, FA, etc. Or maybe even the Recall or Blueprints type books, if you still have them from third year. I wouldn't bother going too far backwards and try to read the basics from the first two years of med school like pathophys -- this is much more a test on stuff you learn in rotations than the Step 1 stuff. So forget pathophys and focus on things like peds, psych, OB, surgery, IM.