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hi
i am so depressed
i have step 2 in just 5 days...and was finishing up UW,,,i am still getting around 50-54% in gastroenterology , genitourinary systems
kindly advice
thanks
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| drkpp
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have you taken nbme yet?
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| sumie
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no i havent taken nbme yet
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take it and if u get a good score on i must say u are all set to blast the exam!!!!
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| sumie
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thanks
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| nisha
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what's ur cummulative score on usmleworld? Good Luck for your exam..tell us how it was!
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| sumie
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my cumulative score on UW is 57%
thats why i am so worried
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buddy, dont worry about usmleworld scores, its suppose to be harder then the real exam. i am sure nisha will tell you that 57% is a good enough scxore. just correlate nbme score, its worth the 45 bucks
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thanks
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| shri
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Hey, Good Luck.......keep cool, and dont miss out on sleep.
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Good Luck!!! 
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| sumie
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thanks...that is so encouraging
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Hey Sumie, how did it go? I am sure you were great!
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hmm i m in no different water. I hope ur exam went well.
I did my cumulative to be 60. But did in tutar mode (didnt change answer even if they were wrong). Then have done about 1.5 read and exam knocking on the door. Same situation i guess. Dont want rather cannot take NBME as im takin exam literally on last day of block so no matter wat NBME comes ill try to stick to schedule now and wont take NBME. I heard a bad score at this time can literally blow ur confidence away and vice versa.
I need to ask have u guys done kap Q Book. I tried that now and in Paeds got 32 in one test and 45 in 2nd (havnt done 3rd yet) in GO got 40 41 and surg 41 41. Will be doing Med in this week. Are these scores okay considerin exam. ???????
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i think u shld be fine. u will do just great and best of luck. dont forget to post your experience once u get done with the exam
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hi
i really dont know how my exam went
all in all...i would say i didnt get very long qns hardly say 20 or so in the whole exam
length of qns was similar to usmleworld...but the difficulty level...i am scared to say.,,as it felt easier...but i dont know cos sometimes even if we think we are right in the exam...it may be a false reassurance and the score may be bad...i dont know
by the time i came to the last block...i was so tired...could still focus...but to be frank .. i really dont know how it went...i didnt have many ECG qns..max 5 or so
had one CST graph
hmm there were quite many qns on preventive med...as expected
but thankfully not many in peds which i was scared of...esp the late immunizations
in surgery..trauma was tested quite a lot
lots of drug interactions and side effects
hmm
at this point...to tell the truth i am kind of scared to write anything
god knows what score i will get
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| 99doc
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don't worry.
just relax.you have done ur best.
all the best for ur future.
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hey good luck sumie for your score and thanks for posting your exam experience. You're lucky your exam is over, now just sit back and PRAY!!!! Wish you the best!
One question... did you get step 1 type pharma?
And what type of questions in preventive medicine? screening, lipids, HTN or did you get a lot of biostats?
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thanks
didnt get lot of pharma qns...only drug interactions...they started out like a clinical case....then the qn asked about a symptom and said...what the cause is...they were many clinical choices and only one or two drug interactions...so it could be either a clinical or pharmacological qn
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luckily only few qns in biostats...like in clinical studies
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they usually describe a clinical scenario and then at the end...instead of asking what the disease could be...they say...how could this have best been prevented
usually risk factors are tested more
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what sort of things do u suggest we concentrate on in Preventive Med..totally clueless in that chapter..and do u suggest we read pharma once again, or whats given in UW is enough for the exam?....Thanks and Smile!
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well a friend also came back from exam and had little stored as far as questions wre concerned. He said that he also got drug interactions and drug effects, not many (God knows how many does "many" means), He said one question was dosage adjustment as regard SSRI in pregnancy?????????? and he said it aint much use to read the drugs, just wats written in Bank and Kap Notes may be enuf. Its simillar to wat sumie is saying.
Summie if one asks you, was preventive section of Crush enuf what do u think?
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i am sorry
i read preventive med in crush long back
after that i had done the same in UW and kaplan so i dont remember the stuff in crush
for preventive aspects...i think it is good to look into epidemiology of every disease u read...like risk factors..etc
that helps
which risk factor is greater than the other
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| sumie
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well nisha
reading pharmac takes a lot of time
but it can be helpful
the good thing is not many qns are from pharma
so u can be selective and read things like warfarin ,heparin, maybe anti arrythmics, etc
which can be asked potentially
otherwise reading the whole pharmac...though a good idea..will take a whole day at the least
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