USMLEWORLD for rotations

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I'm currently doing my surgery rotation.....as you all know, the hours are crazy - which equates to not having a lot of time to really study during the week. For those of you who have taken step 2 already, do you feel UWorld as a whole, contains enough info. to do well during clinicals (not just on the step 2 exam). There's so many resources out there for every rotation, so I'm looking for a kind of "home base" during rotations (kind of like what First Aid was to me during my 2 yr of school) to always study from daily during clinicals.
 
I think you will be well prepared for the shelf, but there's a lot of stuff in Surgery that isn't in USMLEWorld or tested on Step 2 that you will be expected to know in the OR and on rounds.
 
i also agree that UWorld surgery questions are not particularly comprehensive for the subject - it offers mostly trauma questions, while the surgery shelf has many medicine questions, too, so uworld is great because it covers all topics, but it is expensive to buy a year's access. i havent taken CK yet, but my classmates claim it's the gold standard for the boards, and plan on using it myself.
 
i am using USMLEworld for internal medicine. i like it because i used UW for step 1 so i feel really comfortable with the interface and i like their explanations.

now whether its useful for the shelf or not...i'll let you know in 4 weeks!
 
Anyone else want to comment? So USMLEWorld is good for medicine, maybe for surgery. What about OB/GYN, peds, family medicine?
 
I used it for psych and thought it was pretty good but the questions were not as lengthy as the real shelf questions were. But still good to check concepts.
 
So then USMLEWorld + a book or two for each rotation, and you should be golden?
 
i'm using world for family...pretty representative of the real thing?? will that plus step up ambulatory be enough?
 
seriously said:
i'm using world for family...pretty representative of the real thing?? will that plus step up ambulatory be enough?
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If you could post your results with USMLEWorld when you're finished, that would be really nice.
 
drdr2010 said:
i am using USMLEworld for internal medicine. i like it because i used UW for step 1 so i feel really comfortable with the interface and i like their explanations.

now whether its useful for the shelf or not...i'll let you know in 4 weeks!
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Ditto. Did you take the shelf yet? If so, do you think UW for Step 2 helped?

I like their format, questions and explanations much better than MKSAP (which I'm also using). I just hope the material it covers is actually relevant to the shelf exam.
 
USMLEWORLD was helpful for all rotations- most useful for peds, neuropsych, surgery and medicine in my opinion. There is no straight up family section-- you need to do outpatient peds and outpatient medicine to get the coverage.
 
I used Uworld for the Internal Medicine shelf. I did ~800 q's before the exam. I found the Uworld q's to be more similar in length and difficulty to the actual shelf exam as compared to MKSAP (I thought these were much easier than the shelf). I think the Uworld explanations are also a great learning method when you are tired of trying to read Step Up (super dense!).

My average Uworld score was 76% at the end and I got an 85 on the shelf.
 
Since there is no family med section, how do you use USMLE World for it? Do you just do random questions from peds and internal medicine? What settings should you use?
 
for family, i just did imed questions. at first i was doing a mix of everything, but there just wasn't that much ob or peds on my shelf. i did a few hundred questions before taking it, and made sure to do all of the preventative q's. there were some inpatient questions on uw that were more information than i needed for a family shelf, but overall the questions were a pretty good representation of what to expect. other than that my only resource was the ambulatory section of step up. i ended up with a low B, which might not be your goal, but i was just aiming to pass with the least amount of effort. done and done.
 
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