This has been the message throughout the last 15 years of academic life and still rings true as I approach my final year of residency. Since high school, when the mantra was “Take more AP classes so that you can…
As a treat today, we have a question that is quite pertinent for BOTH Step 1 and Step 2 CK. A question like this could certainly appear on either test. Take a stab at it and get your learn on.…
Back by popular demand – USMLE Step 1 Question Breakdown. A tricky question and a stepwise approach to get you not only to the right answer, but smarter along the way. Break it down now!
(Missed Part One? Click here.) Gather round, brethren, for a story about rounding. Keep your ears open at the hospital and you’ll keep hearing phrases like this: It’s time to round. What time are rounds? We’ll do that after we…
Love them or hate them, “rounds” are the quintessential medical school experience. It is during these protracted meetings of the minds that we learn about our patients, their progress towards renewed health, and the entirety of the medical laws and…
Immunology. It’s amazing, and we certainly would not have made it this far without it. People devote entire careers and decades of research to understanding single immunologic proteins, and you have a few weeks to develop an understanding of the…
Let us do the planning so that you can do the studying. Taking Step 1 reminds me BASE jumping. The stakes are high. A great deal of time is spent selecting a site, planning an ascent, and making sure that…
This is the end, beautiful friend, the end. As we come to the end of the Step 1 journey, we will be much less talking about how to study for Step 1, and a lot more about how to perform well…
If you’ve been keeping up all the way through, you probably have a pretty good idea about how to study for Step 1. (If you’re just joining us, we recommend starting here with Part 1). At this point in your timeline, you’ve already…
If you’ve made it this far, congratulations… You are doing all of the right things. Just like setting up your central line kit before inserting your needle, you’ve put everything in its right place to set yourself up for an…