INCREASE YOUR SCORES & GET OFF THE PLATEAU (UWORLD, NBMEs, STEP 1)
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- čas přidán 13. 10. 2017
- Hope you try these tips out and have success with them! It took me a long time to realize I needed to do these things, but once I had been implementing them all for a while, that's when I started to see real improvement in my NBME and UWorld scores.
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I really needed this video! Thank you for taking time out to share your experiences and help others! I know what I will be changing in my routines starting tomorrow.
No prob gf, good luck :)
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Tips mentioned in this video is on point.
Thank you!!your video was very very helpful.Thank you for honest advices!!!!
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Tip 7 spoke to me! thanks and Good luck!
Haha yes it's the one thing people hate sacrificing because for so many that's what they've been doing for years!!
Thank you for the video! Will you be sharing a video for Step 2 studying?
No prob! And I might, although it's not very useful. I just used UW and MTB 😂
First of all, *CONGRATULATIONS* on being done with the big monster of an exam that is Step 1.
I would say instead of putting so much emphasis on training yourself to "regurgitate" verbatim what you read from UW or FA, I'd rather much students put in more efforts into understanding the concepts. Yes, I know there are nit picky details that we can't run away from and they are just pure memorization and recall for the exam like chromosome numbers, oncogenes, etc, I would argue that the exam, at its core, is testing our understanding of the concepts in the basic sciences and our ability to integrate such knowledge into multiple disciplines and clinical scenarios rather than our recall ability. Remember that the exam is a three-step reasoning exam, not a one-step reasoning exam. In Goljan's favorite words "...they are not interested in the 'what', they want the 'how', 'why', 'mechanisms', 'pathogenesis' etc.."
I've never been a fan of straight up memorization albeit I have a really sharp memory. I find that once I've understood the concept behind a given topic, I don't have to do much memorization because, I use logic to re explain things to myself or my study partner. I just reason things out and they always make sense. Here is a classic example - differentiating between *absolute appropriate and absolute inappropriate polycythemia* and the changes seen in plasma volume, EPO levels, SaO2 etc.
First of all, the names appropriate and inappropriate give them away. In both of them, we see an increase in RBC mass and RBC count due to an increase in bone marrow production of RBCs. Now, in the case of the former (i.e., absolute appropriate polycythemia), this increase is brought about by a hypoxic stimulus (e.g., COPD, high altitude, cyanotic congenital heart diseases) to the bone marrow causing it to produce more RBCs for better tissue oxygenation. Therefore, EPO levels are high, SaO2 is low and plasma volume is normal.
In absolute inappropriate polycythemia, again, the name gives it away - there's an inappropriate (ectopic) release of EPO by tumors like renal cell carcinoma causing the bone marrow to produce more RBCs. Here, SaO2 is normal (no hypoxia), EPO levels are increased (from ectopic sites) and plasma volume is normal. It just makes sense. No need to sit down and try to memorize these lab findings if one understands what's going on.
I write all these because, I'm an international med student (studying medicine in a foreign language and for many years, I was just cramming my textbooks without really having any basic understanding of the topics) also in the process of studying for Step 1 and I've come across so many articles and videos online advocating for straight up memorization. I've seen people say "you have to memorize FA 7 times until you can recite it word for word" and I just think that's a really bad approach towards prepping for the exam because, ultimately we are going to be responsible for people's lives and when faced with real life scenarios, are we going to be running to our annotations from FA and UW trying to remember the next word in that line?
This comment isn't intended to offend and I hope it doesn't trigger any negative feelings from you and/or other readers. This is just my humble, unbiased opinion so, I invite all to take it with a grain of salt after all, we are all different and we learn and assimilate differently. So, ultimately to each his own 😊
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Thanks! Yes, I've heard people talk about that many a time. I agree with it, however no matter how much you understand something, you still have to remember how you understood it. For me, I can understand something perfectly well, but forget it 2 days later if I don't regurgitate the physiologic pathway or course of thought in my understanding multiple times over. That, or implement my undertsanding through questions over the course of following days. That's more what I meant! It's not just about regurgitating random facts or lines from FA, but repeating entire concepts from memory so your understanding doesn't fade away :)
@@Medumentary That was the clearest explanation about retention that I think that I've ever read. That really "clicked". Thank you, I needed that today.
why are all these great channels popping up right when I finished medical school? that's just rhetorical. my real questions are -where did you go to school and how are you approaching the match?
Could u please describe how long u worked with pathoma,what u did to remember all those stuff or spending more time mastering fa is more efficient?Thanks
I only really used Pathoma during 2nd year while I was taking Pathology over the course of the 2 semesters. I have a video about that if you search "pathology" on my channel!
So spaced repetition. I get how you can do that with u world using your notes or the education objectives. Or with sketchy using the picture with the red dots but How are you suppose to do that with your FA or pathoma readings?
If you would answer this i would really appreciate this.
It's time consuming, but I would pick a few pages/day from FA to read and highlight. Then for each section I would cover the body paragraph or chart just showing the title (eg. Graves Disease), and recite off the top of my head everything I could remember from that section. When I was done, I'd remove my hand and see what I missed, and then repeat until I had all the main ideas memorized. Then I'd move to the next section. It's not a matter of memorizing word for word, but being able to recite all the main points out loud or at least in your mind without having to read them. If it was a phyiologic process (eg. endocrine pathways) I'd pretty much do the same thing and verbalize the process of the pathway outloud over and over until I got it right without looking.
Never opened, owned or read first aid. All I did was uworld 3 times in two months and scored well above avg. I was a. It below avg student my first two years. I just work better under stress.
Hey @Chesty can you give more info? I’m debating just sticking to uworld 8 weeks out .
@@cliveo181 it all depends on how you learn.....I cannot watch videos or listen to lectures (altho I did listen to golijan on my free time). Test is where I did better, engage my brain more imo.
@Chesty Gotcha, how were you able to keep up with all the information from uworld? did you take any notes while doing uworld?
@@cliveo181 the third time, alot of them yea....but by them I already knew alot and was just focus on the minute things.
@Chesty anything else you would of done differently?
Also, Really appreciate you taking time to reply.
hi, is the discount for usmlesuccess academy still available? I wanted to sign up for the course
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How much would you say the prep course helped you with the Step1 exam?
It made all the difference, really!
Thank you! All the best with the rotations! :)
My score of u world is not improving from 55% despite of one year preparation.
Muhammad Ilyas hey! I’m not moving past 50-55%. Did you take the exam and if so how did it go? Would appreciate it if you would share. Thanks
Thaaankkk yoouuuuu
Watched on 1.5x speed :P
My Uworld average isn't going up. I'm stuck at overall average at 67%. :( :( :(
Sounds like you need to change what you're doing to study :)
What happened then? :D
@@fatmazehracalikusu619 I did a little above average on Step 1, but CRUSHED step 2 CK :) . The biggest thing I did was dump the premade anki cards and made my own based on my incorrects. I am now applying for residency this match :)
@@salvadorbl2-188 Wow! Sound super cool!! Do you have any other advice? I'm stuck at the same :(