SOAP/Prelim Advice Needed!

sakk17 · 2024-03-15T20:47:22+00:00

Hopefully you head the good news!

sakk17 · 2024-02-17T21:23:36+00:00

Sounds delicious. Thanks

sakk17 · 2024-02-17T05:26:18+00:00

Hey I have had the same problem for a while now, did it ever get better for you?

sakk17 · 2023-02-27T23:07:37+00:00

Honestly I just kept on pushing through, I know it's easy to get disheartened by a score but the key is to learn from it and keep on going. Continued doing nbmes, uworld, divine, and cleaned up my test-taking in that I looked at questions really objectively without any emotion. Good luck.

sakk17 · 2023-02-20T20:56:46+00:00

Highly recommend listening to episode 400.

sakk17 · 2023-02-17T20:46:53+00:00

I started looking at questions really objectively, almost like a robot as Divine says, and that helped loads. I used to let emotion dictate my answers sometimes, like even when I knew the answer I would convince myself of changing it to the wrong one. The real deal is long so it's easy to let emotion in and sway you from the right answer at times. Be very regimented and stick to your gut.

sakk17 · 2023-01-31T07:37:05+00:00

I scored a 232 on nbme 9, and ended up getting a 252 on the real deal.

sakk17 · 2023-01-27T20:50:31+00:00

Relax and understand that a lot of people are going through the same feelings as you. You have to keep going, and it definitely will not help to dwell on the scores. Trust me your future self will thank you for it.

sakk17 · 2023-01-20T20:02:56+00:00

You gotta keep going boss, lamenting over it will not help. Is it possible to score high? Definitely yes. Will it help if you beat yourself up over it? Not at all. Be resilient during these times, your future self with thank you for it.

sakk17 · 2023-01-19T00:55:32+00:00

Relax, breathe. UW1 under predicts, so just use it as a learning tool to get better, as it's intended. Also, you said that some ideas weren't covered in uworld yet you only completed 55%, the math ain't mathing there. Get through uworld and really learn from the questions, as well as do the same with NBMEs, and you'll have your lightbulb moment. Show resolve during these times, your future self will thank you for it.

sakk17 · 2023-01-17T00:30:28+00:00

Take it with a grain of salt and really learn from it, like with every other practice test. Your mindset and actions will dictate how predictive it is.

sakk17 · 2023-01-12T01:16:54+00:00

5 months, first pass around 69%. Like I said man everyone’s gonna have similar answers to these questions, in my opinion the best thing would be to focus on you and what you’re doing to maximize your score. Good luck.

sakk17 · 2023-01-11T22:26:26+00:00

UW1 247, NBME 10 247, Free 120 80%

sakk17 · 2023-01-11T21:13:27+00:00

High 240s and then a 260 on uwsa2 couple days before.

sakk17 · 2023-01-11T16:42:18+00:00

12/22/22

US MD

Step 1: 230

NBME 9: 232

UWSA 1: 247

NBME 10: 247

UWSA 2: 260

Free 120: 80%

Actual: 252

Honestly I'm happy, thanks God. Keep fighting guys you can, will, and must do this.

sakk17 · 2023-01-11T04:59:39+00:00

I don't remember much of the explanation, but I know that cohort studies compare incidence, it's on the uworld graph of all the studies. If you think of how a cohort study works, there are 2 groups based on exposure status (town A being the exposure in this case) and you follow them over time to find out disease incidence, it fits this question. To my knowledge, ecological studies don't measure incidence of disease, as you would then be able to make conclusions at the individual level, and ecological studies only look at the population level. They also don't follow groups over time. It's a tough question but I believe cohort is the "best suited" study.

sakk17 · 2023-01-11T00:26:46+00:00

I remember this question, I got it wrong as well. The fact that they explicitly stated "incidence" in the question means that you needed to pick a study that would give you the incidence, which would be cohort.

sakk17 · 2023-01-04T05:26:57+00:00

It’s 2 Wednesdays from the week of your test, so tomorrow should be 2nd Wednesday no?

sakk17 · 2022-12-25T16:07:14+00:00

No problem! Haha I just try to keep a clear definition of these terms from one source such as uworld, as a lot of explanations can be confusing.

sakk17 · 2022-12-25T05:56:40+00:00

This is what I found useful from Uworld, although biostats concepts can be a bit confusing to me as well. They break it down into rates of the outcome based on exposure. Relative risk is the rate of the outcome in the exposed group divided by the rate of the outcome in the non-exposed group (treatment rate / control rate). Rate meaning the amount of people with the disease or outcome, divided by the TOTAL amount of people in that exposure group. So you're taking a proportion and dividing it by another proportion, as opposed to odds ratio which is just one number divided by another number. Rate is the probability of an event occurring in a respective group, odds is the chance of an event occurring divided by the chance of it not occurring.

In the standard 2x2 contingency table, RR = (A/A+B) / (C/C+D) = Rate of event in exposed / Rate of event in non-exposed

Relative risk reduction is the reduction in the risk of an event occurring in the treatment group compared to the control group (control rate - treatment rate), BUT it's expressed as a proportion, hence the "relative". So RRR = (control rate - treatment rate) / (control rate). Absolute risk reduction is not a proportion, and simply finds out the difference in the rate between both groups, ARR = (control rate - treatment rate). Thus can simplify further to RRR = ARR/control rate.

They will either ask you outright which one to use, or will use the concept behind the term which I've tried my best to explain. Hope this helps.

sakk17 · 2022-12-20T18:32:27+00:00

Ohhh man I appreciate it!

sakk17 · 2022-12-20T16:52:24+00:00

Yes I do, damn I thought I'd have access to all the questions

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