I thought NOT scheduling it on back to back days was key for me.Īlso, take NBME about a 3 weeks out to scare yourself if you need an extra push to study hard. I was on IM the month prior to my exam, so I didn’t have a lot of time to study. I scheduled my exam about a week apart which allowed me time to work on CCS cases. “Best advise: Use MTB early as a quick review to familiarize yourself with material, and do another quick review prior to day 2. +/- USMLE Rx Step 3″ – playingfrombehind on SDN “Overkill, I went through only the simulation cases offered by nbme, the 6 cases on the website, and felt well prepared.” -Dr.Acula99 on SDNĢ) UWORLD step 3 CCS + practice CCS cases on NBME websiteĥ) Biostats – UWORLD step 1,2,3 qbanks, First Aid Step 1 Biostats chapter (behavioral science) The rest will be gimmes.” – TeslaCoil on SDN But like I said in a previous post of mine, be prepared for 1-2 curveball cases that really require on-your-feet thinking. I ran through the sims twice and the written cases once and the CCS was my strongest performance on the real thing. I would read those as well U world written cases and sim cases together are plenty. “If you go over all 51 practice cases, as well as, read the 40 or so other cases that are included, you’ll be prepared Yea there are the interactive ones but if you look somewhere on there in the ccs section there are also another 40 or so cases but they are not interactive, they’re just read-only. Nice to hear that UWORLD is clutch and not much else.
I like that he keeps it simple and concentrates on high yield. I am just taking my initial gander into what’s already out there in terms of a helpful intro to what this exam is about and what the prep will involve.īen White has a great website that is a handy resource for other exams as well. So it feels kind of crazy that I am about to study for the last USMLE exam.