Step II UWorld QBank

[futuredoctor10]

In completing the UW QBank, I have noticed there are some concepts or principles tested that I had not heard of previously and not come across in any review book. For example:

• bronchogenic cysts present as MIDDLE mediastinal mass
• in Blastomycosis, you can have lytic bone lesions
• use of end-inspiratory and end-expiratory hold pressures to calculate plateau pressure and PEEP

Are these concepts (listed above) things that I should just learn from doing UWorld, or I should have known from prior knowledge/reading? I try to eliminate answer choices based on critical thinking / deductive reasoning whenever possible. But for example, I crossed out Blasto because I was like "oh that does not cause lytic bone lesions" on that question.

I assume this is why people say "use UWorld as a learning tool" -- in the sense that you will learn new concepts you will not have seen before.

 

[Food]

Pretty sure the first two bullet points are things that either in review books or you should have learned in medical school. Especially the first one - bronchogenic cysts are one of the biggest things on the differential for mediastinal masses - that might have been covered either in surgery or in pediatrics - I read about it because I did a peds surgery rotation.

 

[futuredoctor10]

Pretty sure the first two bullet points are things that either in review books or you should have learned in medical school. Especially the first one - bronchogenic cysts are one of the biggest things on the differential for mediastinal masses - that might have been covered either in surgery or in pediatrics - I read about it because I did a peds surgery rotation.

Oops well I did not... its okay because I know them now though !