What you wish you knew now about how to approach clinicals

[Dr. Anonymouss]

So I am starting internal medicine this week as my first clinical rotation and we have not received any guidance on how to study or approach clinicals. I've heard of using UWORLD practice questions as part of your daily studying to prepare for shelf exams, but is there anything else? What study plan or resources did you use or would you wish you would have used during your clinical years?

Thanks!

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[IWishIWasBuff]

I’m also wondering about this. Everyone says Anki and UWorld are all you need but I’m unsure about that. I tried doing a few questions and literally do not know how to approach the questions or how to even review. Where do you learn the information in the first place? As for Anki, I’m just memorizing the cards instead of learning the info because I don’t know the “why” or “how” behind the cards. X, Y, Z are the next step in management?…but WHY tho? I bet a Benjamin that I will forget it in two weeks because, in my mind, they’re just random trivia facts with no underlying concepts

For preclinicals we had pathoma, BnB, etc to learn from -> Anki to retain -> Amboss/UWorld to apply and solidify. Doing UWorld before even learning the concepts seems like putting cart before horse.

 

[djiboutiman]

As far as I can tell, the most talked-about resources for Step 2 and rotations (other than Anki, UWorld, and AMBOSS) are:

-OnlineMedEd (OME) free with ads that kind of gives you the basics, videos are tagged in the Anking Step 2 deck
-Boards and Beyond Step 2, videos also tagged in Anking Step 2
-Divine Intervention Podcasts (free): here's a reddit link to the post on how to use it and its accompanying Anki deck

Some less used resources:
Dr. High Yield (free) on youtube, but no accompanying Anki deck
Emma Holliday Videos (free) used to be used more often, but the videos are old and out of date
Sketchy Step 2, maybe not as useful as it was for Step 1