What did people use to study for step 1 in the old days?

[Hemichordate]

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What resources did med students use before there was First Aid, UWorld. and Goljan or BRS books?

 

[CDI]

Textbooks. Straight up.

 

[voicesinmyhead]

Now those would have been some real brainy doctors then.

 

[Locrian]

Now those would have been some real brainy doctors then.

I'd say haha. I never goto class/listen to lecture/use class notes.

I read books, and it makes it fairly easy to make the people that dont look like fools. Also easy to tell they really dont understand any concepts except superficially. Boards is going to be hard to them 🙂

 

[Trogghunter]

Before step 1 there was less medical knowledge than today. I know a few still practicing physicians that got grandfathered in to where they don't have to even take board recertification exams. One told me that the cardio drugs they had when he was a resident were dig and lasix. That's it. 70s...free trips to aspen and pharmaceutical love.

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[CDI]

Now those would have been some real brainy doctors then.

What do you think IMGs from abroad use? Its all textbooks.

For 4th yr IM, I had read CMDT cover to cover. I know others who actually read Harrison's.

Truth is, it doesnt translate into being a better doctor or higher scorer. Step 1 now, is very different than what it once was - less memorization, more thinking and applying.

And yes, not just cards drugs, but think about antibiotics too. It was a different time then. My dad sat for the boards in the 80s, and when I ping him on some stuff (irrelevant to his current practice) he says he never learned it or it didnt exist. He was grandfathered in, no recertification exams.

 

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[iansarria]

sorry double post

 

[Transposony]

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HY series and
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[voicesinmyhead]

lol

i thought step1 was a recent thing.

When was steps in its present or similar format first introduced?

 

[CDI]

FMGs actually had a different exam back then, called the FLEX.