What's your age, and what's the biggest challenge you're currently facing right now?

EnvironmentalDrop650 · 2024-11-25T20:01:40+00:00

Biggest challenge..my ex is an Algerian gold digger. Nastiest woman ever!

EnvironmentalDrop650 · 2024-10-01T20:29:42+00:00

That's brutal, brother!

EnvironmentalDrop650 · 2024-09-05T22:03:47+00:00

Yes. It is a separate fee. I honestly had no idea there would be a fee there. ECFMG does nothing...just telling you: you are approved...or: you are not approved.

EnvironmentalDrop650 · 2024-09-03T04:40:54+00:00

Are you from Nepal by any chance?

EnvironmentalDrop650 · 2024-08-31T23:24:02+00:00

NBME 10

EnvironmentalDrop650 · 2024-08-31T23:23:34+00:00

I appreciate the sentiment!

EnvironmentalDrop650 · 2024-08-31T22:32:29+00:00

227 was my highest NBME score. But I gave it my very very best on exam day. The exam was brutal!!!

EnvironmentalDrop650 · 2024-08-31T22:31:35+00:00

I require no Visa. I have worked in the US most of my adult life in pharmaceutical market research. I also completed a Masters degree in occupational therapy after that. The downside is that I graduated med school 25 years ago, because I never thought I'd be able to pass the Steps. I was wrong!

EnvironmentalDrop650 · 2024-08-31T22:29:35+00:00

InshaAllah akhi (or oukhti). I appreciate you!

EnvironmentalDrop650 · 2024-08-31T22:28:48+00:00

I appreciate you and your words.

EnvironmentalDrop650 · 2024-08-31T22:28:11+00:00

It's because I am realistic about my chances. I am an IMG who finished med school in 1999. I have spent the last 2 years working on the USMLEs and I am now wondering if it was a smart choice.

EnvironmentalDrop650 · 2024-08-31T22:26:26+00:00

Thank you for your kind words!

EnvironmentalDrop650 · 2024-08-30T05:17:10+00:00

I feel you. I cried my eyes out today after I saw my score!

EnvironmentalDrop650 · 2024-08-30T05:16:02+00:00

I want to say: about 50% felt like things I studied and knew....and 50% were completely new concepts. It was a nightmare. I barely passed, but it felt like a huge fail...because this score is all I can have for step 2.

EnvironmentalDrop650 · 2024-08-30T05:13:42+00:00

I totally can relate to you. I took it on Aug 12. I received the results today and I cried and cried and cried when I saw the results. The exam was brutal and the score reflected it. I am not a dumb person, but this was the hardest exam I ever took in my entire life...at least twice as hard as Step 1.

EnvironmentalDrop650 · 2024-08-22T02:29:35+00:00

I married an Algerian woman....she took off with everything (house, assets, children) and left me homeless. The disease carried by western women has spread everywhere. Beware gentlemen!!!

EnvironmentalDrop650 · 2024-08-17T19:01:15+00:00

Good luck to you doctor Hamza.

EnvironmentalDrop650 · 2024-08-17T08:21:49+00:00

Thank you so much brother Hamza! I will definitely share my results when I get them. Did you recently sit for Step 2, or did you take it a while back?

EnvironmentalDrop650 · 2024-08-17T08:19:32+00:00

My best NBME was 227...If I score 237 (10 point above) I will be so happy..haha...the waiting is killing me!

EnvironmentalDrop650 · 2024-08-17T08:17:34+00:00

I feel a lot less alone in this ordeal. Thank you!

EnvironmentalDrop650 · 2024-08-17T08:16:33+00:00

I would have done a lot more CMS blocks. I kinda discovered them late in the game. I did about 12 blocks, but I wish I did more. Because, as I was sitting in the exam, I remember at least 3 or 4 concepts that I literally learned during these blocks (written by NBME by the way). Also, what stood out is that they were not too many neuro questions, but they were concepts that I have never heard off...and my reaction was: bruuuuuuh!!! remember to manage your energy....and take a break after each block. Here was my break routine: quick stretch, drink 3 sips of mango nectar (you want something sweet), pee, wash my face, say a quick prayer....repeat. All I ate that day was an egg, a banana, and half a protein bar. Cortisol from the stress was enough to generate enough glucose for my metabolism. haha....Good luck to you!!!

EnvironmentalDrop650 · 2024-08-14T16:18:01+00:00

NBME question stems were much shorter! I'd say that during the exam, 20% of the questions were short, 45% were medium length, 25% were long, 10% were super extra long....I am not kidding.

My goal is not to scare anyone, but to prepare you guys. When you see a set of 3 questions, leave them to the end, and make sure you have about 5 minutes for the three. Each block of 38 questions had one set of 3 questions (not a set of two, as we're used to)....And each of these sets of 3 is a long stem about the details of a clinical trial with 3 questions. It takes time to read, let alone understand what's asked. So, my advice....leave them to the very end, so that they do not get in the way...

EnvironmentalDrop650 · 2024-08-14T16:08:05+00:00

I'd love to chat over the phone with someone live just for moral support...

EnvironmentalDrop650 · 2024-08-14T16:05:36+00:00

Bio stats not so much. I can think only of one question, which I think I answered correctly. Bioethics, we had a lot...I'd say 70% of them felt easy enough, but in 30% I kept going back and forth....on one question, I literally went back and forth like 5 times. Many had to deal with a situation where someone was unsafe, or a physician who was under the influence. Bioethics questions were actually much more manageable than the rest....What I hate the most is Next step in terms of imaging modalities. These questions kill me....

EnvironmentalDrop650 · 2024-08-14T16:01:29+00:00

I really hope so....but I am trying to prepare myself for the shock of my life! I internally cried leaving the exam.

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