To Idiopathic

[Cristagali]

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Your NBME score says you will rock Step 1. Congrats! My question to you,... in the final week or two, should I focus on the Goljan High yield
( from his kaplan course) or FA?? or balance both. Thanks and good luck. 👍

 

[Jalby]

I have an opinion on this. But, since I was not asked, I will not offer.

 

[Idiopathic]

Well, I was prepared for COMLEX and as anyone who has taken that can tell you, being prepared for that is about as prepared as one could be. I will be focusing on biochem and behavioral in my last week, but I will go through FA again too.

If I were you:

FA at least once more. If you come over something you think you know, confirm it. It seems as though the questions that you will kick yourself over are the ones that you 90% know, but cant remember if it is one way or the other. Ridiculous things like pemphigus vs. pemphigoid or simple things like what oxidation state is ferric iron versus ferrous iron (i.e. things we all seem to forget). Have a good path resource nearby so as to make sure you get the mechanics down of any shady diseases.

Goljans high yielder is good, but it mostly provides extraneous stuff (I think Jalby will agree) that really could only make the difference between a 260 and a 265, I think. If you have the time and have everything in FA down cold, then go through it. Otherwise, dont bother.

Jalby?

 

[Jalby]

My personal opinion is niether one of us should be answering this because niether of us has taken the USMLE's yet. Bigfrank is the guy most informed right now who it would be best to answer this question.


As for my uninformed answer to the OP's question. I've been following this USMLE forum for 3 years now, and whenever anybody takes that test, regardless of what they got, they always say: "I wish I had studied first Aid more"

I was actually at your spot 4 days ago, having finished an in depth review of all everything. What I decided to do is this:
I had the lowest %'s at the time on Q-bank on immuno and Gross, so I went to my med school library, sat down for 6 hours and read high yield gross anatomy and high yield immunology, copying everything into my first aid.
Once I did that, I am just going to reread first Aid as many times as I can and reread BRS Path a few more times (just finished reading #2 of board studying, about #8 in lifetime). It takes me about 1.5 days to read first aid, and one day per BRS path. I'll prolly give up rereading path much more because I'm not missing many of those on Q-bank.


So, moral of the story is: Read first Aid. That's what everybody always says they wish they did more.

 

[Cristagali]

Thanks jalby and idiopathic. good luck!