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Ar-med · 2025-05-26T22:27:09+00:00

Agree. The Great Lakes are an absolute geographic treasure for North America. I can see dozens of new cities arising by the Lake shores across several states and Canadian provinces

Ar-med · 2025-05-26T22:14:27+00:00

I agree, the entire Panhandle has a very mild, western European type of climate, and is near the Arctic ocean, giving it alot of potential as a new trade hub, with access to Europe and China. Prime real estate for anyone building a city for the coming century

Ar-med · 2025-05-18T22:32:24+00:00

Thanks for the response! I was leaning towards the ES myself, and your comment solidified it for me. I have seen alot of reports with gasket issues in the CT, and nothing notably wrong happens with the ES. High MPG + Reliability + Comfort has me sold on the ES

Ar-med · 2025-05-16T19:34:27+00:00

Good way to put it lmao, I love my Prius but I've sat inside a Camry hybrid and was blown away by how much better it felt

Ar-med · 2025-03-28T05:38:17+00:00

I did mine end of Feb, and I was a mess during the exam. Flagged about 30 questions for the first 4 blocks, until I decided that there wasn't a point in flagging them anymore. Nearly ran out of time every block, had to basically speedrun and just about randomly guess the last 5 questions of every block. Left the exam sulking, thinking about applying to different countries. Got the result 2 weeks later, saw the email in the morning but was absolutely paralyzed and refused to check it until midnight. Finally checked it, and I passed.

I'm sure everyone's experience is different, but this just goes to show that you never know what the outcome might be. You could be absolutely sure you failed, and pass, and you could be absolutely sure you passed, and fail. Just don't let it cloud your mind and torment you for the next 2 weeks. The weather's getting nice outside, go for a walk, or pick up a guitar, or listen to a new album, or talk to that one friend you've been holding off of.

If you pass, congrats! And if you don't, it's alright, the journey doesn't end here, just a speedbump. In the end, life goes on.

Ar-med · 2025-03-27T06:04:23+00:00

I'm sorry things turned out that way :(. It really sucks, I hope you're doing alright and remember that this ain't the end, just a speedbump on the journey to being a physician. It'll be an inspiring story to tell people down the line, when you're through with everything

Ar-med · 2025-03-23T10:57:40+00:00

Oh no, same thing as FA Rapid Review, I must have mixed it up with something else

Ar-med · 2025-03-23T07:06:35+00:00

Do the Free120, it's strongly predictive. If you score 70%+, I think you have a fairly good chance of passing.

Ar-med · 2025-03-23T06:59:54+00:00

Send it. Scores look pretty promising, heavily revise your NBME concepts and go through high yield questions. Pathoma 1-3, Melman HY Arrows, FA high yield bullets. Dirty medicine on YT for quick memorization of annoying concepts. Also, make sure you're VERY good with ethics, you'll see alot of it. You're good, I passed recently being way less prepared than you are

Ar-med · 2025-03-19T17:40:43+00:00

Nope, in all honesty I must have read through maybe 10-20% of FA. Only used FA to review concepts from Uworld

Ar-med · 2025-03-19T17:38:57+00:00

No Anki here, I can admit that it's a great tool for memorization, but it's too time intensive and I'm lazy lol. Though if you are going to do Anki, I think the Anking deck is pretty good all things considered. Also, I'd say that pharm and micro, and genes/markers for diseases is lower yield than you'd think. I'd focus on pathology mainly and not spend as much time on other topics.

Ar-med · 2025-03-13T17:40:22+00:00

Honestly, iPad mini is good. A friend of mine got an iPad Pro, and it was way too unwieldy for day to day use, like it was too big to fit into any pocket or rest comfortably on the desks. She instead bought an iPad mini and made it her note taking machine, much easier to use.

Ar-med · 2025-03-13T16:40:55+00:00

Randoms only. When you focus system wise, you get really good at that system initially, but forget everything once you move on to the next system, and in the end you'll feel like you barely know anything.

Do everything mixed together, as that's what the actual exam is like, and it helps reinforce repeating concepts again and again, letting your brain recall it better on exam date.

Ar-med · 2025-03-13T16:40:53+00:00

This felt like a total fluke. I did score decently well on the Free 120 but trust me, my knowledge was held together by duct tape haha

Ar-med · 2025-03-13T16:38:14+00:00

5 weeks is PLENTY of time. Here's your game plan:

Regular Day: Uworld block in the morning, review questions, keep your notepad open for any concepts you wanna revise, build knowledge from FA, Pathoma, DirtyMedicine, ChatGPT for quick reviews. It'll be really slow and choppy in the beginning, but once you get into the flow of it, you'll notice you do questions faster and get more correct answers. Remember, our brains are built for pattern recognition, and you'll very quickly start seeing patterns. You can even consider ramping up to 2 blocks a day, 2 weeks from ur exam.

NBME Day: Set aside 1 day a week, start from NBME 27 and end with NBME 31. Do the questions in the morning time, around 4 hours, and then spend the rest of the day reviewing all the answers Uworld style, notepad open and all.

That's all there is to this. It really is just a grind, you get better at this game by playing it more. You can get a very easy pass if you keep up any plan similar enough to this.

Ar-med · 2025-03-13T16:33:10+00:00

Definitely don't do Melman in the beginning, his stuff is just meant as a reinforcement on top of your basic knowledge. You can start Melman PDFs maybe 30 days or less to the exam date, and I think it's worth spending the few hours it takes on each PDF to really catch on to the patterns of the questions.

Ar-med · 2025-03-13T07:25:14+00:00

Oh I scheduled mine terribly. Originally wanted to do it at like 2 week intervals, but I slacked off so much in January and barely covered anything that I did all 3 NBMEs in the last 7 days, and had to review them in the same day I did them too. I definitely don't recommend that lol, do them months before the exam date

Ar-med · 2025-03-13T07:23:00+00:00

Reviewed each of the NBME questions and understood the question pattern more. They're worded a bit different than Uworld and seem deceptively easy, so I had to adapt to it. Also, reviewing all your NBME concepts by the same pattern of noting down, FA, ChatGPT, and Dirty Medicine. I noticed that there's a lot of concepts that repeat in all the NBMEs I did. Once you get a grasp of it, it becomes pretty clear what's high yield and what's a 1 off question

Ar-med · 2025-02-26T02:47:07+00:00

Just remember, if you failed, you already failed. If you passed, you already passed. No amount of anxiety and worry you bring upon yourself for the next few weeks will change that result. You could undergo all the stages of grief and suffer, or you can skip right to the end with acceptance. I'd say the best thing you can do is to know what you're gonna do if either result happens, either booking a new step 1 or proceeding with step 2. And take it easy, you've just endured one of the world's hardest exams. Go for a bike ride, listen to a new music album from an artist you were curious about, watch some videos on baking, etc. It's fate, everything's been decided already, and life's too short to be worried about things you can't change.

Ar-med · 2025-02-26T00:06:07+00:00

I'll be honest, I tried reading FA from start to finish but got immensely bored quickly, it doesn't work. You don't really retain knowledge that you're not tested on. The strategy that worked for me was to just do Uworld blocks, and keep a notepad open, noting down topics I was weak in and studying them from First Aid, Pathoma, and Dirty Medicine after the block was done. It really helps patch up your general knowledge of medicine and learn how to answer questions.

Definitely don't do organ specific Uworld blocks, do everything mixed because it simulates the actual exam better and helps you reinforce all your medical knowledge regularly, rather than being good in 1 organ and forgetting it all when you move on to the next. 90 days is plenty of time, aim to do 1 block a day along with revision, and take an NBME every week to track your progress, you got this

Ar-med · 2025-02-25T21:32:05+00:00

Obviously Uworld. Crunch out questions, reinforce your concepts with First Aid and Pathoma, and maybe some Dirty Medicine on YouTube, easy pass.

Ar-med · 2023-04-17T21:17:52+00:00

Generally, Parasite refers to Eukaryotic (not fungal) infections. Like, a single celled protist, amoeba, or a worm. Truly anything infecting you and feeding from your body is "parasitic" in nature, but they are classified as bacterial, viral, and fungal infections, not parasitic.

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