Ob/Gyn: Kaplan USMLE Step 2 CK Lecture Notes is good but i thi | Usmle step 2 experinces

Ob/Gyn: Kaplan USMLE Step 2 CK Lecture Notes is good but i think uworld is enough. you can do kaplan to have some basic concepts if you aren’t done with step 1.

Pediatrics: Uworld is enough.

Psychiatry: I was comfortable with this subject. but many people find it difficult so i think you should do it well from Uworld.

Concepts will help you, Cramming the criteria of diseases will help you, and Pharmacology will help in this subject. On a lighter note, watch woody allen movies eg. Blue jasmine, i find a lot of psychiatry in these

Ethics: do all UWorlds.

Preventive medicine: Uworld is good.

Biostats: You have to do step 1 stuff for this as well as step 2 stuff. but unfortunately i didnt get any formula based question or any bias, p value, confidence interval etc. Mostly i got questions on data interpretation. Anyway you should know the concepts cold in this. This will boost your score.

QBANKS:

Question Bank

The more you do , the better it will be. Doing new questions will train your mind to use logic and by that you can easily rule out 2 to 3 options in unheard of questions. Works like magic but requires practice. It feels like a sixth sense when you have practiced so many questions you spontaneously get the feeling that it cant be C , it cant be E

UWORLD CK: obviously

Uworld step 1: only for biostats, pyschiatry, and ethics. its always nice to work on these because they are very very conceptual.

Uworld step 3: for the same as above. also you can do your weak areas from this one, because its always smart thing to work on your weak areas, isn’t it?

CMS: i had nothing from CMS in exam but if you plan to do it , do it from the beginning of your preparation. personally i liked old forms more. if you are short on time and still want to do it, then just do CMS of subjects that you find yourself weak in.

Kaplan Qbank: i solved very old one that was of 2011 or 2012. many thing have changed now so i think you should go for latest one. I remember that when in real exam i had some unusual topics and unheard of questions, it reminded me of kaplan selfassesament i did some questions from it like 10 or 20 and many questions were totally out of uworld. so i would prefer Kaplan qbank over cms because qbank gives you explanation as well and personally CMS didn’t suit me i didn’t like its questions. don’t do both, it will waste your time.

NBMES: dont do nbme 1 and 2 . do all of others. do in the order of nbme 4 (easiest i found) then nbme 3, nbme 6 and finally nbme 7. and aim to get 90% if you doing offline or just do online if you got the monaaayyyyyyyyyy

TIPS:

Helpful Tips for USMLE

Every new question helps you if you try to understand the concept. Just cramming the correct answer for a question won’t help you. Know why its right and more importantly why other options are wrong.

Knowing ‘WHAT’ will make you pass, Knowing ‘WHY’ will help you ace the exam.

How to approach new WTF questions?? RULE OUT Method. keep ruling out options that you find unlikely to be right. u can easily cancel 2 or 3 options with this method.

If you have questions , please post in comments, I can’t reply everyone in inbox. many people have similar questions so it will help everyone and it will be easy for me also.

I also want to talk about something that i have noticed during these steps is that there is a lot of selfishness in this world. I understand that competition is tough but nothing is achieved from belittling others.

Be nice to people who are endeavoring to get something and talk to them the same way you do when they become successful. Don’t be like Chameleon.

It is easy to be a part of someone’s happiness but if you are sad in their sadness and support them in a difficult time you carve your name on their hearts and that is what you will be remembered by, so let’s be more understanding to each other and aim to be at a level where we are able to help more and more people. Because that is what being a doctor means.

Good Luck for exam.

-Satish Advani, Batch 34 CMC larkana, Pakistan.