#USMLE STEP 3 REDDIT FREE#

My only regret is not having taken this thing earlier, but with COVID destroying my entire residency experience I'm glad I put it off until now. Many of you will boarded in some other specialty where you won't use 75% of what is seen in Step 3. Still, I can't imaging going into some other specialty and having to study for this stuff that I'll never again use in my life. As a PGY-3 IM resident I found a lot of this stuff related to what I'll need to know for IM boards so I used studying for it as good practice.

#USMLE STEP 3 REDDIT FREE#

I can't imagine being a surgical intern having to study some of this stuff in the 30 minutes of free time I have in a day while working 80-100 hours a week.

Regarding Step 3 s ridiculously cruel to expect people to somehow prepare for this exam during residency. I think its safe to say that for most cases you can figure out whether something needs to be done urgently or nonurgently. Obviously, you'd want to discontinue that. Lots of cases where someone had a reaction to a medication or something they were receiving. No one cares about the patient's A1c in these scenarios or vaccination status (although now that I'm thinking about it I'm wondering if someone with a stab wound does need a Tdap). Another example would be surgical abdomen after wound: slam fluids, consult surgery for ex lap, case over. For example, tension pneumothorax that is clinically diagnosed needs a needle+chest tube and a follow-up chest xray, you don't need a CXR to make the diagnosis if someone is unstable. If you look at the NBME examples of cases, you can figure out what they want you to focus on. All of my patients on the real thing were up to date on vaccinations. However, I don't think the grading is accurate at all. I got through it once, but barely had energy to go back and do my incorrects.Ĭ review: Overall, I think the program was pretty good and got me feeling comfortable with doing the cases and putting orders and advancing the clock. Uworld review: obviously there's no replacement here. One of them I figured out once I got home, but the other 2 I just had no clue. I definitely had 3 cases where I just had no clue where they were going. Felt mostly like Step 2 CK again and mostly UWorld stuff. A hodgepodge of OB/Gyn, ethics, psych, cardiology, etc. I think 5 out of the 7 blocks seemed reasonable, but 2 blocks definitely were just insanely difficult.ĭay 2: No biostats at all, no drug ads. I definitely struggled on timing often having to guess quickly on the last 2ish questions. I took Step 1 almost 5 years ago now so none of that is remotely fresh. Unfortunately I had lots of clinical genetics/biochem. Nothing felt like it was coming from left field. UWorld was completely on point for the biostats questions and drug ads. I'm glad I spent a few hours just skimming through First Aid, but I'm not sure there's anything I could have done differently here. Day 1: Not sure how and why they expect us to remember mundane facts from Step 1.

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