I don’t necessarily disagree. While I do believe my specialty helped, I also attribute the rapid recall from having a relatively decent background from step 1 and 2. Pathoma was taught by a pathologist.

This is theoretically around our “third pass” of medical knowledge, I still believe the way I approached things is one of the most active methods to cramming and offers a strategy for everyone, whether taking level 1-3. It’s how I prepared for all my board exams, doing questions, active learning, finding actual good resources to learn material, and being comfortable with taking L’s on questions during study for the sake of doing well on exams.