I am getting ready to study for USMLE step 2 and I had a quick question for everyone. What percentage of the exam is internal medicine, peds, ob/gyn, etc. I was hoping to find this out so I can give a proportionate amount of time to studying each topic. Thanks.
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Whoops, sorry for the confusion. I meant to include surgery, neurology, and psych as part of "adult medicine". I had very little surgical questions on my test to the truth. There may have been a few that just presented the option of going to surgery vs managing medically, and some dealt with the management of surgical conditions; but there weren't too many and most could be answered from an "internist's" perspective. I had a few psych questions, but I think that I had a larger proportion of psych questions on q bank then I did on my actual exam. I barely had any neuro questions too. The only neuro question that I can even recall just asked me to interpret an MRI, and I just took the test 4 weeks ago (I think that I had 2-3 questions out of the ~300 some questions that required some radiological interpretation). Regarding OB, there was a good mix of OB and gyn questions. I thought that doing practice questions on q bank and reading first aid and prescription for the boards was sufficient for my ob/gyn questions. Prior to studying for step II, ob/gyn was probably one of my weakest subjects because I hardly learned anything during my rotation, but I ended up scoring the higest on that section according to my score breakdown.
