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when do the results usually come out?

[quote=JuJa93571734]no marks yet.. i think it should come around 3-5 pm central or eastern time in the USA and Canada edited by JuJa93571734 on 1/5/2011[/quote] i don't wanna be the bad guy....i don't think you will get your score today...this is what i know: from your exam date, get the very next wednesday; from this wednesday add 3 more weeks....on the third wednesday you will get an email with your score(for the dec. 17th: your next wednesday is dec. 22; from this date add 3 more weeks which equal january 12th....on this date you will probably get the results ussually after 8 am eastern time)....have fun until then :)

January 05, 2011 10:36

Question about self assessment exams

couple of thinks: 1. qbank and selfassessement exams are 2 independent thinks 2. qbank and SA will expire depending on how much time you buy: minimum 1 month for qbank and selfassessemnt(SA) expire in 2 weeks(i am not talking about extending this period) more specific: you buy qbank for 2 months....you will be able to access your account for this period starting from the day you activate it. you buy 2 SA exams and you have maximum 2 weeks for each to take it from the time you activate them/it=you can activate one right now and take the SA exam before starting qbank and see from which point you are starting, second one after finishing qbank or even you can activate both of them AFTER your qbank account has expire....my opinion: activate now only your qbank....do all the questions at least once or even better twice; after that activate one SA, do a SA exam and see where you are....look at that time on your weak parts and rewiew those parts/read more from other sources; after you are done with qbank plus you improve your weak areas, activate the second SA and see if you have any improvements....good luck

January 06, 2011 12:19

Self assessment daedline/expiry date??

[quote=step2ckqbank]i have purchased the self assessment along with the Qbank... can somebody tell me ... is there a deadline before which i have to complete the self assessment?? my qbank expires on 25 jan 2011, so does it mean that even my self assessment should be done before that date edited by step2ckqbank on 1/6/2011[/quote] hi there! my situation was very similar to yours....bought qbank+SA and i didn't know if i have to take the SA before my qbank account time expired; so i wrote to the uworld customer care and they reply me that qbank and SA are 2 different entities....that means you DON'T HAVE TO take your SA only when your qbank account is still valid; you can give SA exam any time before, in the same time or even after your qbank account is/was valid. the only thing is once you activate SA you must take it in 2 weeks....hopefully i explain it good.....if have any questions, i could post what they reply to me....

January 06, 2011 16:47

Self assessment daedline/expiry date??

[quote=step2ckqbank]thanks anan544.. for ur quick reply,it was definitely good. this news relieves some pressure off my back, as i didnt want to do the final assessment without a full revision of my study materials.. best of luck with ur prep n exam!! (n... if its ok from ur side, it would be great if u post the reply from UWorld's staff...its always reassuring to hear it from the horse's mouth ;-> Cheers!!)[/quote] my original email: couple of months ago i bought UWorld qbank+selfassesement for step 2 CK; my expiration date for the qbank is on december 23rd and i have a question regarding the self assesment: i know this assesment could be taken during a 2 week period after activation and i would like to know if i will activated it on december 22nd, would i be able to take the self assessement on january 3rd or the self assessement has to be taken during qbank validation period? UWorld answer: Our self-assessment exam subscription is independent of other subscription duration. It can be activated via your account on our website and will stay active for 2-weeks from the time of activation. You can activate it before, during or after your other subscribed course material. my next question: thank you very much for your reply.....I just wanna make sure I got the ideea: my qbank validity period will expire on december 23rd but if I will activate my self-assessment on january 15th for example, I will be able to take it in the following 2 weeks? UWorld answer: Yes. If you activate the self-assessment subscription later, you will be able to access it for 2 weeks from the time you activate it. bottom line: you can activate SA anytime before, in the same time or even after your qbank account expire....the only thing is this SA will expire in 2 weeks after activation....everytime when i log on to my account i see SA activation button....is there even though my qbank time period expire couple of weeks ago.

January 07, 2011 08:43

UWSA

go on step 2 ck forum...over there is a post (Self assessment daedline/expiry date??) where i post some informations....i think they will answer all your questions regarding this topic....

January 08, 2011 16:07

How to apply to take nbme

[quote=YaVa20071567]everyone discusses nbme scores here...i still do not know how to apply to take an nbme test...some1 plzz help...is it only for us residents or for img's as well[/quote] follow the next steps: 1. go to www.nbme.org 2. on the left upper part choose 'students&residents' 3. after you click that, it will appear underneath a white square where you will choose 'self-assessements' 4. after clicking that, underneath will appear another white square where you will choose 'login to self assessement services' 5. next step is to register: on the left hand side will appear many options like home, login, new account, sample assessement, terms&conditions, etc; click on 'new account' and give all the informations they need from you(most important you will need a valid email adress....rest of the things can be real or not-i mean adress, real name, age, etc) 6. on your email adress they will sent you a message when your account will have to be activated(as long as i remember, the only thing which has to be done is to click on a link in that email confirmation) 7. after you confirm&activate your account, repeat step 1 to step 5 but on step 5 you will choose 'login' instead of 'new account'.....it will appear a new window where they ask for your account id(which is your email adress) and the password...after login in, choose whatever form you wanna take.... hopefully I explain it well for you...good luck!

January 10, 2011 08:38

when do the results usually come out?

[quote=yaag37179430]what time EST can we expect for the results to come out? I am in India and its 5.00AM here... all the best people !![/quote] go to bed and try to sleep....in usa is still tuesday and the results comes on wednesday after 8 am eastern time....right now it's 8 pm on tuesday...so, if you will get it, it will be in your time in about minimum 12 hours from now.....cheers:P

January 11, 2011 20:04

Mechanism of Action of OCPs?

maybe this explanation will help you....let's go first with the normal hormone effects: day 1 of menstrual cycle=bleeding; at this point LH will stimulate estrogen production; estrogen is keep increasing in concentration until let's say a concentration X; all the way up until concentration X, estrogen has a negative feedback to LH; when estrogen reaches concentration X, this negative feedbaack 'switch' to a positive feedback and stimulate LH secretion which will give LH surge.....very high levels of LH will give ovulation(breaking of ovarian follicle) and formation of egg and corpus luteum.....from this point corpus luteum starts to secretes progesterone plus some estrogen; from here things get's different if egg will be fecundated or not by a sperm; now, the OCP are most of the time 28 pills....firts 14 pills contain estrogen only to mimic the physiological effect of a normal body but this concentration in blood of estrogen will NEVER reach that concentration X.....as a result LH surge does not happen and ovulation does not occure; the next 14 pills contain mainly progesterone to induce myometrial thickness and to produce menses(i believe the last 3-4 pills have no estrogen or progesterone just like corpus luteum which at the end of lutheal phase stops in production of progesterone because there is no beta hCG from syncitiothrophoblast); bottom line: OCP mimic normal estrogen and progesterone concentrations seen in a female monthly hormonal cycle EXCEPT the OCP estrogen concentration will NEVER reach that concentration X which could give LH surge=no ovulation.... hopefully it helps.....

January 12, 2011 09:11

closing my eyes

you will not get your result today....i'm almost 100% sure; i post many times informations about this topic and i will let you know what i know: as a rule for everybody, your score day will come following the next algorithm: look at your exam date.....move forward on calendar and get the very next wednesday...from this wednesday ADD 3 more weeks.....on this third week you will get the result; now, you took the exam on dec. 23rd.....very next wednesday is dec. 29th...from this point add 3 more weeks which makes january 19th your score day....you will get your score next week on wednesday....have fun until then :)

January 12, 2011 12:15

hepatitis question

i have some questions regarding hepatitis....it might sound a little bit foolish but i'm confused; my confusion is about antibodies against HBV and HCV.... for HBV: they say patient is positive for HBs or HBc antibodies.....what does this mean? positive for IgG or IgM? for HCV: they say patient is positive for HCV antibodies....again, they talk about IgG or IgM antibodies? last thing: IgG antibodies against HBs means immunity; IgG against HCV means also immunity? IgM against HBs or HCV means infectiveness with hepatitis B and C respectively right? please help....thanks to anybody who wants to clear this concept for me.

January 13, 2011 12:01

question

hi there....this is how i think you should solve this problem: first of all, you should think that the gamets cell(sperm and oocytes) contain only 23 chromosomes(they are haploid; the vast majority of the cells in the body are diploid, aka contain 46 chromozomi but are 23 pairs, which mean you got one pair from 1 to 23 from father and the other pair from 1 to 23 from mother); when you produce gamets, logic you will 'pass' further to your kid only 23 chromosomes(aka one pair from 1 to 23); innitialy the cell which will finally produce gamets has, just like the other cells in the body, 46 chromosomes; normally this cell should split this 46 chromosomes exactly in 2 and give rise to 2 daughter cells with 23 chromosomes each; if, by any cause, this process of splitting is not working proparly(meiotic nondisjunction), the splitting process is wrong; the most common error is when 1 chromosome does not split(very rare when 2, 3 or more)....that means the daugter cells which should have each 23 chromosomes, will inherited a different number....the number depend very much if that chromosomes which did not split will 'go' or not in a daughet cell....if is present, that daughter cell will have 24 chromosomes and if not the daughter cell will have 22.....this is the most likely answer= option D...answer B is another option but is much rare because 21 and 25 chromosomes means 2 chromosomes did not split(again this is much rare comparing to answer D)

January 15, 2011 15:26

when will i get my result?

most likely you will get your result on january 26th

January 16, 2011 09:18

need help please...

i am an IMG and did not score very good on step 1.....CK it's on the way but i would like to get in 2011 ERAS program.....i need some letters of recomandation and wonder if it's better to get it from an attending or is OK from a doctor too? what do you think about volunteer-is it worth it or it's a waste of time? it will look good on ERAS aplication or has no value at all this volunteer time? i could get first in a volunteer program for 1-2 months and then going into an observership(by that time i should be able to have both CS and Ck scores and, by my calculation, i should be finish with those before july 1st).....thanks to anybody who can help me.....

January 27, 2011 11:30

pediatric question

a 2 months old boy is brought to the physician for a well check exam. he was born at time following an uncomplicated pregnancy, labor and delivery. he has been breast feeding 6 to 8 times daily since birth. he smiles and lifts his head. he is at the 50th percentile for lenght, 75th for weight and 25th for head cincumfernce. examination shows no abnormalities. his mother asks for nutritional recommandations. which of the following is the most appropiate recommendation for the infant: a. add cow milk based formula b. add pureed fruit c. add rice cereal d. switch to soy-based formula e. begin vitamin C supplementation f. begin vitamin D supplementation g. begin vitamin K supplementation if anybody has a good explanation, please post it...this is an offline question and i don't have the explanations....i choose an answer which is different from the one which is shown at the end of the test. thanks to aybody who can help.....

February 07, 2011 13:44

question

a 47 y/o woman comes to the doctor because of difficulty sleeping for 2 months. during this period, she has been awakening at 3 AM and remain awake worrying about work, even though she is tired. she has stable angina and required stent placement 6 months ago and a second one 4 months ago. her chest pain started to recur 1 month ago and now she has it almost daily. evaluation shows no organic cause of her recurent pain. she works as an attorney for a large firm and reports that she has been giving more responsabilities during the last year. for the past year, she has not enjoyed her work as previously. she forces herself to go to work and has difficulty paying attention while she is there. she is a gourmet cook but no longer prepares food because she does not enjoy the taste of it. physical exam shows no abnormalities. on mental status exam, she has a sad and worried mood and a reactive affect. she is allert and orriented to person, time and place. she states that she frequently becomes despondent especially when she thinks about her heart disease. which is the most likely diagnosis: a. adjustment disorder b. dysthymic disorder c. generalized anxiety disorder d. major depressive disorder e. primary insomnia this is an offline question...i don't have the right answer; what i choose is different from the list of right answers and i don't agree with the right answer listed for this question.....if anybody has an ideea, please post it(with explanations will be even better)....thanks guys

February 07, 2011 13:57

well...got my score

hi guys...it's been a long and rough road for me reaching this moment but at the end it made me so happy; i own this forum a lot and since today i receive my score, it's time to give it back maybe will help other guys like me. here is my story: after struggling badly on step 1(got an 79/195), i decided to try a different approach: i read all the kaplan books+MTB(no FA) and then i bought 2 months of uw; i went twice to all the q's and after i did one more time the psychiatry(my weakest subject overall)+wrong q's; after my first pass through uw q's i took NMBE 4(mid december): got an 350/195;i was so scared and depressed so i postpone my exam.after nbme, i finish my 2nd rewiev from uw and then i choose to go with more q's; i did 2009 kaplan qbook(fantastic book), FA Q&A(1000 q's) and Lange usmle step 2(i did 200 q's). january 21st-exam; 2 days before i took UW SA-520/222 and 1 day before i did the free NBME/Usmle CD-got an 82% q's right overall; on february 9th i got my score: 99/230; for those of you who are in the same boat like me, my adivice might help you; in my opinion if you can do what i did, there is high chances you will get an score like mine: step 1:read all kaplan books at least 1 time(i read them once but i made a bunch of flash cards)+MTB for step 3(i don't know anything about MTB for step 2) step 2:do kaplan qbook(not qbank! do it right after you finish reading kaplan books and MTB) step 3: do the first aid Q&A;70% of the q's are subject wise and at the end there are 8 simulated tests; step 4: buy uw.make sure you go at least 1 time through all the q's(my opinion go 2-3 times) and read every single time the right and wrong answers. if you have enough money you can buy kaplan qbank too; my budget was tight so i prefered to go to the medical library where i got some q's books for free. step 5: take an NMBE.if you are happy with the score, go to exam; if not do more q's(my plan was to do another 2000 q's from 'NMS step 2 ck' and Lange); unfortunatelly i had no more time in my opinion: if you go 2-3 times through kaplan, read all the UW q's 2 times +- kaplan qbank, do kaplan qbook and FA Q&A(read all the explanations from books), you have almost 5000 first time q's; if in general you score above 75% from the books and above 60-65% in UW/Kaplan qbank, there are very good chances you can achieve an 99. my preparation time: about 5 months(first 2 very poorly and only during the night-maybe 3-4 hours/day because during the day i had to take care of my son; starting with end of october, my mother in law came to US; she took care of my son so i study during the day; from this moment, i study minimum 10 h/day(average 12-13 h/day); i only took off 2 days for thanksgiving, 2 days for christmas and 2 days for new years eve when the library was closed). my scores: UW qbank: 55% first time and a 46 percentile; second time i was arround 67% and 75 percentile FA Q&A: subjects: 76.06%; SA: 75%; overall: 75.67% Kaplan qbook: subjects: 72%(no SA in the book) Lange Q&A usmle step 2 ck: 75%(i did 200 q's from the SA); NBME 4: 350 with an extimate of 195 on real exam(this was done after i went once through the UW q's); UW SA: 520/222 done 2 days before exam(january 19th) Free NBME/Usmle CD: 81.75%(37,37,35,3) one day before exam exam date: january 21st real deal: 99/230 received on february 9th(i am soooooo happy ) :) at the end i really wanna say thank you to everybody who helped me in this forum; thanks to my wife, to my mother in law who helped me a lot and the last but not least thanks to my son who was always in my mind(he really inspired me). Thank you GOD for giving me strenght and power to achieve this;with HIM next to me everything is possible!

February 09, 2011 14:28

FORM7 question, please help.

[quote=JiYa48740992][quote=SoKr75932679]D[/quote] but why?...can u explain a little bit more...[/quote] i agree is D and here is my theory....i will start with a little bit of normal stuff and then move forward; carcinoma means cancer of epithelium.....under this epithelium there is a basement membrane(BM)...under this BM we have many structures and in our case we have a muscle(detrussor)....as a rule for you from now on: any cancer which is located ONLY to the epithelium(aka carcinoma in situ) most likely will not require a major surgery; if the carcinoma spread under the BM, that patient will probably need a major surgery; our case: scenario says it's a transitional cell carcinoma; the problem now is it in situ or is spread adjacently or far away(metasasis)? this is critical because the management is different: in our case, the patient has carcinoma and is NOT in situ(spread to the detrussor muscle-aka under the BM)....therefore the most likely treatment is to take out entire bladder(answer D); if this patient would have only in situ carcinoma, the treatment could be wide base excision/radiation, etc depending on what type of tissue is involved; rest of the explanations are pretty much all carcinoma in situ or noninvasive carcinoma(aka does not pass BM); answer E even though is an carcinoma, it does not say is it's in situ or not so you can't bet anything on that(10 mitotic figures per 10 high power fields does not say anything about invasion)....i hope this explanation helps...good luck!

February 09, 2011 16:53

well...got my score

my opinion: 40 days of not studying anything is quite a long period but not long enough to forget everything you already learn; if i would be you i'll go like this: read one more time the entire kaplan books(i would say no more than 1 months)+MTB(i did not use FA so i can't help with that)....then do the kaplan qbook(you get only 850 questions but are very very nice and well prepared-just like UW); next i would do FA Q&A....you get another 1000 questions; if you do about 150 questions per day reading all the explanations, both kaplan qbook and Fa Q&A will take you about 14 days(studying for at least 10 hours daily).....after you finish this you can go with UW qbank(i'm not recomanding this for you because you already bought it and unintentionally you will get a bunch of questions from your previously time) or go with kaplan qbank(best choice for you); make sure for either qbank you use to go at least 2 times through all the questions(i would suggest to go 3 times through your weak areas)....if you do this in a 6-8 weeks period, you will be able to take the exam in about 2-2 and a half months from now; the only thing is why i am suggesting to do so many questions is because as many as you do, it will be much easy for you to catch the most important things from a vignete in the real exam(you could read tons and tons of books....if you don't know how to approach a question, you will have problem with the time, understanding what they are asking you, etc) if you follow what i'm suggesting, you get 1 entire read of the materials, you get 850 questions from kaplan qbook, 1000 questions from FA Q&A and another 2200 from UW/Kaplan qbank....totally will make up to closely 5000 first time seeing questions; if you score constantly above 75% from the books and above 65% from qbanks, you can get a 99 pretty good.....hopefully it helps.

February 09, 2011 17:11

well...got my score

[quote=kasem]thanks for the advice but how i can but those question books and thanks[/quote] there are 2 options: 1st: go online or on any library and buy them(the expensive source) 2nd: google it, find them online, save them to your computer and print them(or even you can do them directly from your PC)-the cheapest source; i suggest to print or buy them cause it will save you a lot of time-it will be very hard to follow all the answers and the questions by 'jumping' from a certain page to many more behind or ahead from were you are reading.

February 09, 2011 21:22

well...got my score

[quote=SHME77646266]Anan54446797; Hello .first congrats from me you got execellent score 99/239.i i want to take my exm step2 in june.i read advise it is very helpful for everyone.NBME4 which choice is better comprehensive clinical science or any other choices where i click.they charge $50/$60 for 4hrs exam. what time befoe exam should i buy KAPLAN QBANK/ USMLEW QBANK.When idid q&a of FA I GOT 29/46 THIS SCORE IS GOOD OR NOT . how about MTB STEP3 should i buy or not.i will be thankfull of you if you reply me soon. thanksSHME77646266[/quote] thanks very much for your words.....here is my advice: NBME comprehensive clinical sience or the simple forms are pretty much the same(the more expensive ones is giving you the explanation to the questions...the cheaper form is not but both are giving you their aproximate score)....depending on how much money you want to spend, you can choose what you want MTB is a safe investment: you will need it for the step 3 so is not bad to get it from now and is an excellent book for step 2 starting with an 29/46 is not bad(that is an 63% which is close to a passing score) bt remember you still have a lot of time until june about uw/kaplan qbank: you should buy it 1-2 months before exam and make sure you go at least once through all the explanations(good or bad) and insist on your weak areas. hopefully this help...take care now!

February 09, 2011 22:55

well...got my score

[quote=DrDr31577174]hi everyone: i have exam in april, i have done kaplan video/lecture and qbook, working on FA and uworld, and scoring reasonable. my question is what is MTB, is it (master the boards by Dr. Conrad Fischer)?[/quote] yes, MTB means master the boards(conrad fischer)

February 11, 2011 23:50

well...got my score

[quote=focusstep2]Hi congragulations on ur score. I am in same situation I got less score in step1.I am very confused on how to study for step2.Did u listen to kaplan videos are they important.Will doing more questions help me to get good score.Which is more important reading lectures or doing questions .please help[/quote] hi...thanks for your kind words; my situation might help you: i read once the kaplan books but i made a bunch of flash cards; on average i think i read 2 times the books(1 time initially and one time from flash cards); i did not listen for the video's but i did a bunch of questions; my advice: go twice through books and when you are done start doing questions(i had in mind to do 150 per day-this includes reading ALL the explanations); start with the more accesible ones(FA Q&A, kaplan qbook) and before exam buy 1-2 months of UW or/and kaplan qbank; after you will do 5000+ questions first time seen, take an NBME(form 4 is the latest).....if the aproximate score is good, then go to exam; if not, you will have to do more questions and studying(i am pretty sure you will get a decent score after 2 readings and 5000+ questions)....hopeflly it helps.

February 12, 2011 00:01

well...got my score

[quote=kasem]hi i took ur advice im reading kaplan books and mtb and doing kaplan q bank for each subject for example peds kaplan peds mtb peds q bank in a month i will finish it all then i will do usmle wolrd q bank for 20 days mixed mode for 2nd time do u think this way is good please advice and thanks because im really scared i heard that the exam is more harder but u give me a lot of hope with ur experience ...[/quote] hi kasem....regarding your studying method: everything is good as long as you are learning and understanding the books; i saw many guys doing this and they had success; but in my opinion you should do many many questions; i've been stressing all of you and i will still do it but the ideea is to do as many questions as you can; bottom line: now you are reading kaplan books+MTB and after every chapter/subject you read you do kaplan qbank(i hope i got it right); this is excellent; after this you said you will do UW; i would highly sugest after you are done with the readings+kaplan qbank to do the FA Q&A and kaplan qbook; in my opinion, do right now what are you doing(books+kaplan qbank) then go with ONLY FA Q&A and Kaplan qbook and at the end finish strong with UW; you are doing questions from kaplan Qbank....this will start giving you confidence about how to aprroach them.....after that keep building on that confidence by doing more questions from FA Q&A+kaplan qbook; at this moment you should be able to do at least 3-4 tests per day(i'm talking about 150 and plus questions per 11-13 of hours of studying daily-from those books you get about 1850 questions and with 150questions per day, this will be done in less than 2 weeks); you will see that at this time some of the questions will seem ridiculously easy; after this do UW; it will make you feel so good and be confident that there are very few things that you don't know by this time. why i am keep suggesting FA Q&A and kaplan qbook? this books are not that hard as UW but they focus mainly on high and medium yield topics; from my point of wiev, they filled many many gaps in my knowledges; UW is fantastic but in my opinion has too many hard questions which are rare in the real exam(from my experience i can say that the exam is not focusing on hard questions; you will get a few of them but most of them are medium and high yield topics; for this, kaplan qbook and FA Q&A are 2 excellent sources); i wish you good luck and keep trusting yourself.....i know a lot of people say that this exam is hard but if you study hard, you will be so happy at the end!

February 16, 2011 09:14

question

[quote=munabhaimbbs]Are you going to give answer In your book or not?[/quote] hi there...like i said in my initial post, this is an offline question....so I DON'T have the right answer; somebody did this test and post his/her answer which i did not agree with that(he/she give as the right answer primary insomnia).....

February 17, 2011 08:43

question

[quote=SHME77646266]anan54446797 hello; how are you .i want to ask you more information about step2.last time you advise me that MTB3 is better than MTB2. I already have MTB2.i am doing FA Q&A.subjectwise and idont know about KAPLAN Q BOOK 2009 .i have 2006 edit.can i do nbme4 now .i will take my in june.FLASH CARDS will help me if i dont buy MTB3.WOULD YOU TELL ABOUT HY TOPICS OF PEDIATRICS &SURGERY.iam just reading KAPLAN NOTES 2008-2009. I DONT have 2010 notes. if MTB3 is exellent for PEDIATRICS / SURGERY sould i buy or not.one more when i will do USMLEW QBANK/KAPLAN Q BANK before the real exam could i manage my study in a proper way with all subjects and all blocks in bothQ BANK .B/C it takes 2 months for usw /kaplan qbank.where did you read ETHICS/PREVENTIVE MEDICIN.let me know about that.how about you .are you going to prep step1 or step2cs.pease reply me soon.thankyou again.shme776426[/quote] hi...i will try to answer all of questions but before that i wanna tell you that what i'm suggesting to you is to do what you are confortable with; i will copy your questions and then give my adivice which you can take it or do whatever you feel it will work better for you.... MTB3 is better than MTB2. I already have MTB2.....i don't remember to say that MTB 3 is better than MTB2; what i said was i USED MTB3 and i can't tell anything about MTB2 about KAPLAN Q BOOK 2009 .i have 2006 edit......from what i know, 2005/2006 edition is pretty much the same with the 2008/2009 edition(2008 edition is a reeditation of the old ones with maybe some few extra things added) can i do nbme4 now.....i suggest you not to do it right now; NBME 4 is the lastest and from what i've read the hardest one....so if i would be you i would take it after i go at least 1 time through UW(if you really wanna take an NBME now to see where you are, take another form....1,2 or 3) FLASH CARDS will help me if i dont buy MTB3....flash cards are very good with or without any kind of additional source of studying; i don't know anything about buying them but i wrote them by myself. WOULD YOU TELL ABOUT HY TOPICS OF PEDIATRICS &SURGERY.iam just reading KAPLAN NOTES 2008-2009.....in my opinion kaplan surgery and pediatrics are enough for step 2 CK; maybe other guys will recommend you something else but i did not use something else besides kaplan and MTB i will do USMLEW QBANK/KAPLAN Q BANK before the real exam could i manage my study in a proper way with all subjects and all blocks in bothQ BANK.....what i did with UW qbank was untimed+subjects wise at first view and at second view i did them timed+mixed; some say is good to do tutor mode; this is up to you and how you feel more confortable about doing them; but in any way you are doing them, make sure you read ALL the explanations given(good or bad answers) where did you read ETHICS/PREVENTIVE MEDICINE.....kaplan and MTB; maybe somebody can help you with this and will suggest you an extra source because this is a highly tested topic(especially preventive medicine); besides kaplan and MTB i can't suggest you anything else because i did not use something else. about me....i post my score for step 1 and ck; so, next is CS(in march); in the rest i'm doing fine and studying for CS; all the best and good luck!

February 18, 2011 09:49

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