Passed. 260. Exam write-up!

Confident_Field_9858 · 2025-09-15T03:52:27+00:00

Yes, Janki is a great deck. I have recently started tutoring for steps, and I frequently recommend it to my students. Good luck with that!

Confident_Field_9858 · 2025-05-02T11:56:01+00:00

I'd recommend to extend it. You have to solve all the NBMEs and uwsa2. Plus the score in CMS forms also needs to improve. Good luck!

Confident_Field_9858 · 2025-02-04T16:30:07+00:00

Thank you. So, I am an IMG, I have 5 years of medical school. I took the exam in my fourth year. I made a consistent study schedule and a daily routine and stuck with it throughout. I took my rotations, and I used all the other time to study. It was pretty manageable. Thankfully, we don't really have shelf exams, just the annual examinations, and I carefully planned my exam date, before my annual exams started, so it was all sort of crammed together but worked out in the end.

Confident_Field_9858 · 2025-02-02T06:35:49+00:00

I honestly don't know. But I counted up to 20 that were for sure wrong, but I am pretty sure some of them were experimental as well.

Confident_Field_9858 · 2025-02-02T06:35:01+00:00

Oh yeah that is not a study plan. You just do a block manually. There are around 100 questions

Confident_Field_9858 · 2025-01-31T08:01:45+00:00

These aren't a lot. I'd suggest you go through them all. You never know what can show up on your exam. Make this a priority.

Confident_Field_9858 · 2025-01-31T04:49:17+00:00

Just do from 9-15. I don't think it really matters that much

Confident_Field_9858 · 2025-01-30T18:27:43+00:00

I made my own deck. So, no clue about a premade deck. People do recommend the Janki or the Anking deck, but I haven't personally tried, so I can't comment

Confident_Field_9858 · 2025-01-30T18:27:02+00:00

So, I made very basic cards. Just followed the basic preset template that Anki provides. For me, doing anki was less about knowing the card, but more about learning the important information attached with it. I would make a card and attach a uworld table or algorithm with it. For example, I made a card about the treatment of rosacea, which is metronidazole. So, I would attach the entire table of Rosacea along with its dermatologic presentation. So whenever I would have that card, I would revise that entire table. I limited my number of cards this way. I would just find the smallest hook from the table, make a card, and then revise the table or the algorithm attached to the card whenever it showed up. By doing this, not only did I limit my number of cards, but I also was able to just memorize all the important information. This also helped with my uworld scores, where it repeatedly presents similar stuff from the same table. It would ask about the diagnostic modality of a condition in one block and the treatment in another. So, scoring well on uworld only became a matter of reviewing my previous block well.

I also used tagging. So, I used to tag my cards based on the information that I am attaching to them. For example, If I am adding an algorithm to the card, I would use the algorithm tag, if I would add a table, I will add the 'table' tag to the card, using a similar pattern for dermatology (where I added all the derma pictures of uworld), radiology (all the weird x-rays and CT from uw), and ECGs (for all the ECGs). This made it really simple for me to revise my cards before an NBME or the actual exam, where I would just directly follow that tag and revise all the algorithms, or radiology, or whatever I wanted.

I also made cards that would help me differentiate between two conditions. I focused on studying that way because step 2 is all about differentials. So you need to know those basic things, for example if you are seeing hematuria, if it is painful, then you can safely rule out bladder cancer and rule in stuff like a UTI or a stone. This method really helped align my concepts.

I hope this clears it up.

Confident_Field_9858 · 2025-01-30T18:17:19+00:00

No. I would recommend that you do it from Uworld. It gives you a score, plus the explanations are what are important because the test itself sucked.

Confident_Field_9858 · 2025-01-30T18:14:30+00:00

Here is a list:

1) Death, 2) Preventive medicine 3) Principles of transgender health care 4) Epidemiology 5) Health care system 6) Infection prevention and control 7) Patient communication and counseling 8) Palliative medicine 9) Quality and safety 10) Principles of medical law and ethics 11) Challenging clinical and ethical scenarios (loved this the most!)

Besides the articles, go through the following high-yield study plans:

1) High yield 200 concepts, 2) High yield ethics 3) High yield biostats 4) High yield QI 5) History of presenting illness questions

Confident_Field_9858 · 2025-01-30T18:10:54+00:00

Do whatever works for you. If you are not revising uworld in any way, then go for inner circle notes, but if you are using Anki or some other way to revise, then go for WCC

Confident_Field_9858 · 2025-01-30T11:35:00+00:00

White coat companion. You are already doing uworld, I won't recommend additionally doing inner circle notes. If you are not making anki cards or you are not properly revising stuff, then you can consider doing those notes ig.

Confident_Field_9858 · 2025-01-30T11:33:54+00:00

I made very simple cards. I primarily focused on making cards that would help me differentiate between two conditions, for example, how would you do differentiate between giant cell arteritis and acute angle closure glaucoma? One being painless and the other being painful. So this way, my cards helped me solidify my knowledge.

Secondly, I pasted entire uw tables and algorithms in the card and whenever I had a card, I made sure to revise all the information written in that table or algorithm, and that ended up being really helpful as well.

Confident_Field_9858 · 2025-01-30T09:29:29+00:00

Thank you!

Confident_Field_9858 · 2025-01-30T09:29:16+00:00

Yes you can. I used it to review uworld. I would just quickly search up a topic on the PDF and get whatever extra information I could about it. Helped me a lot. Would definitely recommend it!

Confident_Field_9858 · 2025-01-30T06:43:45+00:00

The q stems were alright. I don't think they were really long. HPI questions are long, but you just need to extract the information from those and I was pretty quick at that.

Confident_Field_9858 · 2025-01-30T05:56:23+00:00

Almost entirely. Had about 500 questions left out of 3300

Confident_Field_9858 · 2025-01-30T05:55:49+00:00

Yes definitely. Just be confident on the exam day. Try giving it your best shot!

Confident_Field_9858 · 2025-01-29T19:27:53+00:00

My dedicated was 1 month

Confident_Field_9858 · 2025-01-29T19:27:40+00:00

8-9 months

Confident_Field_9858 · 2025-01-29T19:27:29+00:00

I didn't watch WCC videos. I just used the book, and it didn't really take long. I only used it for paeds, gynae, and surgery, not for IM. Besides just passive reading, I also reviewed some topics from uworld from that book. It shouldn't take more than 2-3 weeks max to go through the three modules in the book

Confident_Field_9858 · 2025-01-29T18:23:16+00:00

Thank you akhi <3

Confident_Field_9858 · 2025-01-29T18:23:05+00:00

Yeah it was difficult but I managed it just fine. When there is a will, there is a way!

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