Yeah but its not as optimized for lecture material as making my own lecture cards would be. If all i need to do is PASS the usmle then i feel like putting it on the back burner and focusing more on lecture wo UK ld be better for my application. This is all assuming thaymt taking step 1 in 2021 will still make my grade p/f for residency apps.
Programs can still filter out by if you took step 1 or not though cant they? I want to know if studying these premade decks for my lectures is a good idea and if i should just stop now considering it might be pointless.
They could, but a pass/fail exam is no longer a good filter. They are gonna pick something else.
Can they filter us out based on our degree or if we took step 2?
From what some people say our scores will probably be reported to residencies as p/f even though we have a score
Adapt? What do you need to adapt? If anything this will allow curriculums to be less board focused.
Will do, give me 10 more weeks.
Im gonna keep doing it then. Helps me learn material too not just study for boards. Material is somewhat similar lol
No it isn’t...people aren’t gonna blow off board exams and people still want to learn things to help future patients. I just don’t think memorizing the Krebs cycle is the way that will do it. Nobody is going to blow things off just because pass fail, and if they do, they probably would’ve failed step in the first place
Agreed, but there is zero doubt in my mind that students will not be approaching step 1 with nearly the same intensity now. I expect step 2 score averages to drop at first cause of this.
dont worry the OMM residency will still be available.
What this thread turned into
"Hi, I want to be a doctor so I can help as many people as possible...while doing the minimum amount of work required to achieve my dreams of obtaining a high-paying specialty while miraculously not becoming a huge liability"
Your bolded statement applies to education in general in America. All kids do is study for the score, not the material.
Study for USMLE and cram OMM for 3 days in between the exams and you're golden
On the ckntrary, people might rush to take it and do worse than expected. Who knows. All i know is that this situation sucks.
It depends what your goals are. If you’re trying to just get like a 225-then you need to keep up with obvious stuff like path, micro, and pharm. but for stupid stuff like cell bio, embryo, and biochem you can probably get away with just big picture knowledge. Don’t misunderstand; you still need to read this stuff in FA and internalize you’re self-loathing when you miss it in uworld, but you probably don’t need to kill yourself with an extra 90 minutes/day of reviews of that stuff.
Basically. I think last year was the highest ever at 231 average. A couple years ago it spiked to 228, but then went down to 226 for a while so it could have just been a fluke this year last year.
I don’t know , there are a lot of Chapman points
I and many others did it. Just don’t put too much time between or you’ll start to lose non-OMM stuff
Completely unsustainable imo. My Zanki reviews 2 weeks before step were >1500/day. If you keep using anki in third year, you’ll be covering 1500-2500 new cards per month in dorian. I had to let it go.
