Uworld twice?

[jbrec123]

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Hi, do you guys recommend that I do uworld twice? I am going over uworld for a second time but I don't know if I am doing the right thing. When I go over questions I make sure that I understand the concept. But there are some questions where I just know the answer to because I didn't know that one fact when I first took uworld. I don't know if I am wasting my time or I should just start a new question bank. I tried doing 20 questions from the kaplan q bank and they were so difficult. I don't know if I am just remembering the questions or I am actually getting the concept. any advice? thanks

 

[Ionian]

They say you should go through Uworld twice.

I don't much care for uworld, haven't learned 1 thing from it, don't miss too many questions, and I think Im only going to cover the incorrect and move on because I feel I will get nothing from a 2nd pass, or just waste time.

But that's me. Not everyone is the same, and by now, as a soon to be MS3, you know you, and you should know what you need to do, despite what others tell you you should do.

Just do you bro

 

[orchitisphlebitis]

You are remembering the questions, often times more than you think you are. I really think the utility of Uworld goes waaaay down after the first pass because of that. If you were thorough enough your first time through, you've already gotten what it has to offer you. Revisiting those concepts in FA/Pathoma is going to be a better use of your time, and will truly hammer in those concepts after you've done the questions. Of course, I'm just some random dude on the interwebz; just do whatever you think is gonna help you the most.

 

[J ROD]

I wonder this greatly too. I have been told to do it twice but I also have 75% of Rx I never gotten through.

Right now, I plan on doing it twice. But, that may change next week once I start doing it.

My mind is blown after reading all of Pathoma in 3 days. lol

 

[AlmostAnMD]

But how much of that do you actually retain, reading it in three days? Honest question.

 

[J ROD]

But how much of that do you actually retain, reading it in three days? Honest question.

I did it for a jump off for Step 1 and my last NBME in Path. I really did not have a choice. I had 4 days to prepare since my last one. It helped me remember some of the little facts I have gotten over the year. It is so dense probably not even 80% but I did not know what else to do in that time period. I plan to do each section with FA while I review. So, it is nice to see it again before I try and really know it. I just cant remember all this stuff anyway. Too many names of diseases I will probably never see or maybe once.

I definitely think it helped me more than reviewing all the videos again. I learn better by just reading the stuff.

 

[Ionian]

But how much of that do you actually retain, reading it in three days? Honest question.

This is really subjective anyway.

I could retain 90+ percent of that material in probably half the time, because there is not one thing in that book I am unfamiliar with, haven't memorized, or haven't seen.
It's purely review, and so much so that I find it not even worth going through.

At this point, it would be like reading facts I intrinsically know/can't misunderstand, like reading 2+2 = 4, or the order of the letters in the alphabet.... what a fascinating waste of time.

But some people aren't there yet.

We need more differential books, like this disease presents like this completely unrelated one, and key symptoms to differentiate the two.
Like elevated ESR and jaw pain, could it be Subacute thyroiditis?, or part of Temporal arteritis with jaw claudication? Would presence of granulomas make the distinction? No, okay so what else? -crude example.

I guess Im saying review books still present everything in such a linear way, and not an integrative way.

We only really get that through question practice unfortunately.

 

[Ionian]

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[Ismet]

We need more differential books, like this disease presents like this completely unrelated one, and key symptoms to differentiate the two.
Like elevated ESR and jaw pain, could it be Subacute thyroiditis?, or part of Temporal arterities with jaw claudication? Would presence of granulomas make the distinction? No, okay so what else? -crude example.

I guess Im saying review books still present everything in such a linear way, and not an integrative way.

We only really get that through question practice unfortunately.

FA Cases is actually pretty good for that. They often include differential diagnoses for the cases and why the diseases other than the right answer would not fit with the case.

 

[dyspareunia]

FA Cases is actually pretty good for that. They often include differential diagnoses for the cases and why the diseases other than the right answer would not fit with the case.

Doesn't Rx include everything in FA Cases?

 

[Ismet]

Doesn't Rx include everything in FA Cases?

Rx includes FA Q&A. FA Cases is just a case-based book. It presents a vignette and then has 5-7 follow up questions about it. It's great for integration, because not only will it go over the pathogenesis and treatment of the disease, but it will also go into relevant biochem / micro / mechanism of action of the treatment /etc