Good luck with your test! Let us know how it goes

how did it go ?

I read "pray" as "pay" lmao

I used some Uworld, some Remar, and read a lil saunders. I did 3 nurse achieve exams and my result came back failed

I've always believed USMLE is not all about studying, you need God's grace to pass

So sorry about that am still looking forward too take my USMLE exam on April just studying hard and praying to God I know I can make it.

USMLE exam is so difficult & I don't know the reason why it should be?

I failed my USMLE Step 1 exam 2 times first was 2012 second was 2018 and I lost money on review questions and also wasted a lot of time studying which never helped me .

Sorry for your predicament, license is for everyone just have to work hard and believe you’ll make it.

Sometimes doesn't matter how hard you study you also need to pray to God for success

@ very correct

I have a cousin who never studied much, we studied together but she gives most of her time to her phone than her studies after writing the STEP 1 last month she passed and i failed😢, i asked her how she did it, just found out she got help from Mr Richard

Please does anyone know who this Mr Richard is? I really need to speak with him I'm frustrated 🥺

Wow so sorry you failed, i have heard so much about Richard but I don't actually have his info

I have sat for NCLEX and USMLE for the 4th time now and still failed, i guess licence isn't meant for people like me😭

Well I've taken the exams for the second time now and still didn't succeed, i wonder how those who succeeded did it

I had interest in working with her but I was discouraged by my friends out of ignorance 😔

@@ronaldosilva-bitcoinrs1938 My friend made it with her help

@@ronaldosilva-bitcoinrs1938 exactly thats definitely ignorance

I agree, most concepts should be already known or familiar.

But thats the point. There will always be people using first aid wrong and studying from it before taking their practice exams. It's a total waste of time using it as a reading source when you could be using BnB, physeo, pathoma, etc. If there weren't people doing this the wrong way, then videos like the one above wouldn't exist.

Brs physio pathoma n bnb . Right

I would suggest the BNB videos. They are awesome. Couple that with a solid qbank(s) and you're set

Have yoi written your step one exam?

What I meant was that you should first learn the material and run the question banks you plan on using. And AFTER you’re done with all of that check to book to see if you missed any concepts or if everything is already covered.

There's always going to be some memorization involved, but you can make it minimum. As an example: for NSAIDs, you need to remember that COX1 induces the production of protective prostaglandins for the gastric walls to remember that non selectie NSAIDs, therefore, can cause peptic ulcers because they inhibit the synthesis of those prostaglandins. This is logical, it makes sense, but in order to come up with that rational you needed to know 1- What COX1 produces 2- That non selective NSAIDs inhibits COX1 activity 3- That some prostaglandins produced by COX have a protective effect on the stomach. By understanding the basis and mechanism, you can deduce the effects, but sometimes there are too many and you'll need to just memorize something. My advice is to try to follow that rational and think about "How does that medicine work? What in the mechanism of action of this medicine justifies it causing this side effect?". Understand everything you can and memorize just that that would take too much knowledge and learning for you to be able to deduct (ie: one of NSAIDs most common form of renal injury is renal papillary necrosis - it makes sense for NSAIDS to cause renal injury, but the specificity of renal papillary necrosis is too much for it to be worth understanding thoroughly, and it's better to just memorize)

@@estherf6242 thank you for taking the time to answer so throughly. I agree with you, I do try to understand the mechanism, but for the adverse effects sometimes they are super unrelated, and as you said, my only choice is to memorize it. I don't like it, but I guess the more I'm exposed to the material, the easier it'll get. Thank you again!

Hey Katherine! Thanks for your comment! In my opinion if you can understand well a TV series without subs on you don’t need an academy (Personally I didn’t used one) you just need to practice. Being fluent is not a matter of “knowing” English, is a matter of “thinking” in English. To do so you need to practice, a lot... Make up a excuse to do it frequently. Believe it or not this channel is my excuse for practicing English. I too have a lot to improve, and tbh the few weeks I’ve been doing videos in English have improved my speaking skills more than any classes I ever took

Yes Quant, I've spoken with a few insiders from the ECFMG and apparently if you obtain your ECFMG ID while your school is accredited you can continue to pursue your path under the same set of rules that applied at the moment of your registration. The people at FAIMER (Justin Seeling) in particular is probably the best man to clear up this questions (He was the one that said this to me)

@@SantiagoAQ thank you so much for your Help 🙏🏾

Hey Sherlock, I'm afraid I did not understood your question. Could you rephrase it?

@@SantiagoAQ I think Sherlock means if we start with Uworld to study a new topic, then go to FA to check if we covered everything, then go back to Uworld on a later time, there’s already a sense of familiarity there (+ know the answers already given the first pass) so how do we assess ourselves if we truly know the material?

Oh okey. First of all: keep doing new questions. That’s paramount to keep increasing your score and will be the best way to check if you actually understood the subject or not (pay close attention to those topics that you recurrently get wrong). Secondly, ask yourself if you could explain why is that the answer (and why not the other ones) if you cannot articulate the rationale for why you choose one option over another it means you did not understood the topic. Picking stuff out of memory is useless. That’s for example why I try to space as much as I can my review of the marked ones from my first pass. I try to make the experience of reviewing them feel as if I’m doing new questions (that’s also why I think trying to memorize questions is a bad strategy)

so how did u actually prepare for step 1?

Too much difference Buy 2021

@@mohammadadnan6374 I have to study only Immunology from it.. Is there a much change in immunology ??

97 - New lymph node clusters 100 - Removed numerous HLA subtypes 108 - Interleukin-13 121 - Imiquimod 122 - Therapeutic antibodies (added/removed MAbs) This is the difference between 2021 and 2020 only in immunology Imagine the difference between 2017 and 2021 ! For completeness sake buy 2021 FA

@@mohammadadnan6374 thanks bro for ur response.... Will surely buy the new one now ..

With questions. I explain it in the video “How I Scored a 272 without taking a single note”

Hey Tasnim, no. If you really want to hammer the “pure” concepts, making flashcards on just the difficult stuff from the first aid would make much more sense

However I still think that doing more new questions would be a better use of your time tbh

@@SantiagoAQ okay noted, thank you! do you think starting uworld 7 months in advance is too early, or shall i get started from now?

BNB + qBanks (Rx/Medbullets if more than 6 months out, UW/AMBOSS if less than 6 months out) usually works for most!

@@SantiagoAQ Thank you!

@@SantiagoAQ hey Santiago! Thanks a lot for the video. It was very instructive, key info. I am sorry, but what is "BNB" and what are "Rx/MedBullets"? Im preparing for my Step 1 on December of 2021 and Im studying mainly from FA and Amboss (Qbank and library) and dont know these other resources that you recommended. Thank you very much!

@@SantiagoAQ ?

@@santiagoclocchiatti6018 bnb=boards and beyond, Rx is a test bank

To flaunt here 😂

Well I've taken the step 1 exams for the second time now and still didn't succeed, i wonder how those who succeeded did it

You will pass everyone has their own season, just keep praying and believe you will receive

I used some Kaplan, and took some much time in my online classes still my step 1 result came back failed

USMLE exams won't bother you or be a problem if you work with someone like Mrs Catherina... She's God sent, she saved me from taking the test for the 6th time

I saw someone say she could be a scammer i couldn't stop laughing, really people say a lot of shit these day's

Actually, I rarely recommend standard textbooks to learn medicine. They have their place but medical databases and videos have a huge advantage as far as I'm concerned.

Well I've taken the step 1 exams for the second time now and still didn't succeed, i wonder how those who succeeded did it

@Ernest Delivery you only need Uworld and first aid to pass the USMLE. Take this from an IMg who just matched

Use kaplan or bnb or both if your basics are weak. Use a qbank with it simulataenously. After learning the material, strictly do qbanks (10,000 questions). Santiago is def right about doing lots of questions, but you do need a good understanding of basic medical science. You can tell Santiago is a strong student so he was a able to jump into qbanks right away.