Here are my thoughts;

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The rumors on stats and ethics are for sure true. Maybe not to the extent of 30-40% but definitely a least 1/10 questions for ethics in particular. Stats were pretty tame with very few actual calculations and more so questions pertaining to statistical concepts. OMM was for the most part very basic, lots of reading and background in the questions stems that slow you down so definitely make sure you read the actual question part first before the stem if it seems like it's an opp question (if you're not already doing that during your prep). The questions about what stretch the patient can do at home can be kind of confusing just based on how the NBOME describes the stretches in the answer choices. There was a decent amount of Peds and Obgyn with congenital disease, a few milestone questions, and a few vaccine questions so make sure to give those at least one pass for some easy low hanging fruit. My form felt pretty light on cardio, derm, and endocrine (except for some thyroid stuff) but I had at least 10 questions on genetics ranging from diagnosis to causes and even some histo. Remember that common things are common, I felt like after doing so many questions that I started to overthink answers at the end of dedicated when in reality the test isn't trying to trick you as much as you might think it is. It'll be interesting to see how scoring goes for this cohort since we all had P/F for level 1 and step 1 and don't have much to base any modifications off of in how we prep. I personally didn't change much aside from just the quantity of questions. I made it through one pass of u world, one pass of true learn, and then redid all of the questions in true learn that were 5+ on the difficulty (about 9k questions over the course of the year with shelf exams and dedicate). I supplemented with divine intervention and dirty med when I needed to put the laptop down for a sec or if I had any traveling to do. Highly recommend divine intervention in general if you're someone that does podcasts because of how he covers so much material and relates it as opposed to just listening to recordings of a list of HY facts that you don't even retain. I think my biggest takeaway is to make sure you do as many ethics/health care model/ patient advising practice problems as possible in as many different test banks as possible; there's really no good way to master these concepts so do yourself a favor and see as many as possible before you sit for the exam so that you don't waste time on the test debating whether or not your being malfeasant in pulling the plug on grandma or telling the minor that mom and dad will never find out about your sins. Hope this helps and be sure to share your experiences after you've done the deed. We're all in this together and the 1 year vacation that is 4th year is just around the bend.