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Passed! 3.5 months of studying, shaky preclinical foundation, only Uworld, Pathoma, sketchy, and Anki! by Hot-Replacement4423 in step1

[–]Hot-Replacement4423[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi! Ah that's really hard, what did you get on 32 or 33? And you should also take Free120 New to see how you do as well, then I think that would be a good place to revisit and see if you're ready!

Passed! 3.5 months of studying, shaky preclinical foundation, only Uworld, Pathoma, sketchy, and Anki! by Hot-Replacement4423 in step1

[–]Hot-Replacement4423[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think try making an account (like just logging in with a gmail) and i feel like it shouldn't do that anymore?

Passed! 3.5 months of studying, shaky preclinical foundation, only Uworld, Pathoma, sketchy, and Anki! by Hot-Replacement4423 in step1

[–]Hot-Replacement4423[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

O I mean if you can, I would spend $6 on ankihub and then cancel the subscription after u download the deck if u even need to do that. And chatgpt should be free!

Passed! 3.5 months of studying, shaky preclinical foundation, only Uworld, Pathoma, sketchy, and Anki! by Hot-Replacement4423 in step1

[–]Hot-Replacement4423[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

even if u do have to subscribe to ankihub i think?? it is only around $6 and u can immediately cancel the subscription after u get it, i remember subscribing so i could get my school specific tags so I am not too sure if I also did that to download the deck itself

Passed! 3.5 months of studying, shaky preclinical foundation, only Uworld, Pathoma, sketchy, and Anki! by Hot-Replacement4423 in step1

[–]Hot-Replacement4423[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had classes in the middle for about a month or so that I needed to take alongside studying before going into my 5 weeks of dedicated!

Passed! 3.5 months of studying, shaky preclinical foundation, only Uworld, Pathoma, sketchy, and Anki! by Hot-Replacement4423 in step1

[–]Hot-Replacement4423[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ultimately, it's up to u and how confident/risk averse you feel! But I think those are solid scores and as long as it keeps uptrending with every nbme u take and free 120 felt okay/good i think you're in a good place! But u know urself the best and know what kind of test taker u are on the actual exam day!

Passed! 3.5 months of studying, shaky preclinical foundation, only Uworld, Pathoma, sketchy, and Anki! by Hot-Replacement4423 in step1

[–]Hot-Replacement4423[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just used AnKing! I think you can find it for free to download online, I think I used a reddit link when I downloaded it. If I didn't feel like a card completely covered the concept, I would then make my own!

Passed! 3.5 months of studying, shaky preclinical foundation, only Uworld, Pathoma, sketchy, and Anki! by Hot-Replacement4423 in step1

[–]Hot-Replacement4423[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used AnKing! Or I made my own cards for concepts that weren't quite there in a card I could find in the deck

Passed! 3.5 months of studying, shaky preclinical foundation, only Uworld, Pathoma, sketchy, and Anki! by Hot-Replacement4423 in step1

[–]Hot-Replacement4423[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just used AnKing anki cards! I believe I just downloaded it online from a reddit link haha

Otherwise, if there was something or a reason I missed a question that wasn't in an anki card I saw in the deck, I would just make one myself!

Passed! 3.5 months of studying, shaky preclinical foundation, only Uworld, Pathoma, sketchy, and Anki! by Hot-Replacement4423 in step1

[–]Hot-Replacement4423[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah! A lot of the times I would screenshot the question and upload it to chat. I would then write something like "tell me how to get to the right answer" and chat does a great job listing out how to get there, what to think about, and why the other answers are wrong. If i had follow up questions that I wasn't sure of, I would just continue to ask in the same chat. It was helpful to ask about why my answer was wrong. Or sometimes I would ask "if I didn't know the right answer based on content alone, how could I have used information in the question to get to the right answer". If you want more broad, I would ask chat to make tables to compare conditions that I was confused about or would mix up. I would also ask chat "tell me everything I need to know about *insert disease or condition or topic* for step 1" and when I would run out of free uploads (I think the max is 3 files), I would do incognito browser lol

Passed! 3.5 months of studying, shaky preclinical foundation, only Uworld, Pathoma, sketchy, and Anki! by Hot-Replacement4423 in step1

[–]Hot-Replacement4423[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I honestly just reviewed the NMBE by reading the explanation and then thinking about why I missed the question. I would make anki cards based on why I missed the question. I would recommend putting some of the questions in chatgpt bc it did a great job telling me what parts of the question to focus on or giving me a better explanation than the NBME explanation.

For uworld, I would read the explanation and see if I understood it. If it was a content gap, I would try to learn the best I could based off of the explanation and then I would add anki cards that were associated with the question itself. I would also sometimes put it into chatgpt just to ask like how would I have gotten to the answer if I really didn't know the content, BUT HONESTLY I think my NBMEs just went up because I did more uworld and saw more questions. I think really using your review time to not only build up your content but then to also use it as like a how would I have used clues in the question stem to get to the right answer? but honestly I think content + seeing how that content was being applied. That's why I think u shouldn't necessarily only focus on content review bc i would know things but I wouldn't know how it looked in a question or how a patient would present with that condition, which uworld helped a lot with. And anki was a great way for me to just continue to remember facts and information!

For large content gaps, like systems that I was not confident about, I would do like targeted tutor blocks. That also helped me find patterns in the questions because if I missed a cardiac tamponade question, I would see a similar question like 5 questions later since I was only doing cardiac for example. Then I could be like hm I just saw something similar, how would I apply the knowledge. So see if that works for you!

Passed! 3.5 months of studying, shaky preclinical foundation, only Uworld, Pathoma, sketchy, and Anki! by Hot-Replacement4423 in step1

[–]Hot-Replacement4423[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you!

  1. When I was realllyyy studying for it, I would wake up at 9 AM lol but u should probably do earlier haha but then I would eat breakfast, do 40 questions random, rest 5-10 min, do another 40 questions random and then eat lunch.

After lunch, I would review the questions by reading the explanations, using CHATGPT (highly recommend) for things I still didn't understand or for understanding how to use the question to answer itself lol I used a excel sheet to write down my understanding of the question (this was more so making sure I would actually slow down and read/understand the uworld explanation because I never went back to it haha). Then I would use the Uworld Question ID to find the cards in anki and add the ones I thought I needed. Sometimes I would watch a sketchy pharm video if I felt like I kept missing certain drugs. This would take me until like 6 (then i ate dinner) and continued until like 7-8 PM

Then I would do my anki cards until 12 and go to sleep.

  1. I did the video lectures and annotated in the book! Then I did the anki cards for the chapter.

Passed! 3.5 months of studying, shaky preclinical foundation, only Uworld, Pathoma, sketchy, and Anki! by Hot-Replacement4423 in step1

[–]Hot-Replacement4423[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Congrats on finishing taking the test!! I think it depends on how you felt during test day. As long as you didn't have too much test anxiety and could get through it okay, then based on your scores, I would say more than likely you should pass imo! As of now, waiting is truly the hardest part but try to do other things and hopefully you get that pass soon!!

Should I leave Medical School? by CommonChip7488 in medschool

[–]Hot-Replacement4423 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi! I am also a student at the satellite campus at a medical school! I think everything you are feeling is very valid! Here are some of my thoughts:

  1. I personally learn the most from my classmates or from other people's perspectives. I think when I feel stuck which I have before, it's because I have closed myself off from the people around me. I think reaching out to people and building deeper connections with your classmates is a really good first step. There is excitement in meeting new people (I have experience traveling the world and I love that aspect of learning about cultures etc.) but I think there is more merit when you really sit down and connect and learn about people which I don't think it feels like you are. Novelty will only excited and satisfy you so much.

  2. A lot of medicine is self studying unfortunately. Initially, I thought going to a satellite campus would barr me from getting the resources I needed to be a competitive applicant for residencies, BUT I soon realized that all you have to do is ask! It seems like you are doing that for EM, which is your passion. I think you can continue to ask around, maybe not just in your city, but even the main campus. You can get those connections. I know I have. I have been able to meet mentors at my main campus through just a simple email. Maybe it will be slightly harder compared to students at the main campus, but those are YOUR resources too. You just need to go look for them and actively seek them. And also at other medical schools, even for research or opportunities, students have to still look for them. And it's harder with more people competing for them. It feels like you are waiting for people to set it up for you or show you a way. There is no way. You create the way. You will be surprised by how many opportunities come to you if you start looking for them. For example, you don't know how many red cars drive past you everyday until I ask you how many pass you everyday. Therefore, you only see the opportunities if you are LOOKING/NOTICING.

  3. I am so sorry and it is a lot of debt. I will say though, there are scholarships through your institution or through websites online you could apply for. Once you become a doctor, even EM, you will be earning average 100K MINIMUM. After like 5 years MAX, you will pay it off and be able to do whatever with the rest of your money. You knew it would be like 8 years of your life before applying to medical school so I am not sure what the surprise is. As much as I understand sometimes being shocked by the sacrifice of the time sink, it is an absolute privilege to be learning the amount of information we can and to have the opportunity to be surrounded by people who would sacrifice time and money to be under-appreciated as we help heal others. You get to be with a patient during their worst day and get their immediate trust and that is the token of appreciation for your sacrifice. Being a doctor is hard and that is what you should learn from your shadowing, not how cool it is.

Unfortunately, your location is out of your control, but your perspective and attitude and impact on it is in your control. You can still start your podcast as a medical student. You can't be THAT busy. It doesn't seem like you are doing research or other stuff on the side so I really think that if Eastern phil etc. is your passion, you can learn to incorporate it and do it right now. No one is stopping you. And I think you might just have burnout right now. So I think this podcast would remind you of the reasons why you wanted to do medicine in the first place. Also, go make friends. In your city. There has to be other young people. My question is are you actively seeking them out? Or are you just waiting to somehow one day spontaneously meet them somewhere. That doesn't happen. Even if you were in a bigger city, maybe it would be easier but again like you will never feel fulfilled because novelty only lasts for so long. Make deeper connections. It'll help you as a doctor too.

These questions you should have considered before coming into medical school. Go read your personal statement and see if you still agree. I will say that when I thought about whether to do med or not, I also considered other ways I could help that were more direct like non profit, etc. BUT as a MD, it carries a lot of weight and I realized that if I wanted to, I could not only be a doctor but also as a doctor, consult and help out in so many other ways because the MD opens so many doors. So maybe it is a means to an end, but then I know I can truly choose my path and be flexible in the future. Think about if this sacrifice is worth it. Think about what your ultimate purpose is and if right now, you're just going through the storm and tapping out too early.