merrk
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ITS OVER!!!!! Thank God!
My sister and her hubby picked me up from the exam and took me bowling and for dinner! I just got back a while ago.
First I want to thank everyone on this forum, for the discussions, encouragment, advice, experience, it all helped!
I went to bed by 9... but slept at 11, and thank God I was fresh in the morning.
Okay... the exam... I'll be brief... cause I'm pretty tired at the moment and have to go for work tomorrow.
Mostly questions were what's the next step? what's the mechanism behind the disorder, what's the MOA of the drug to be used, which is the best drug etc
The questions were either very easy or very confusing.
Peds: a lot of immunologic disorders and storage diseases
ObgGynae: similar to UW, same level of difficulty, some wierd questions but oeverall doable, lots of screening queastions, hirsutism, obs cases eg preterm labor, first, third trimester bleeding, management and diagnosis
Psych: do adjustment disorder really well. psych q's are challenging as the sympoms overlap a lot so know the diagnostic criteria. child psych is very imp, drugs adn side effects
surgery: a lot of ortho... asked literally everything in ortho... childhood, to tumors to trauma and fractures, bone and joint infections. few trauma q's, a lot of general surgery
med: MAIN bulk of exam. lytes and acid base tested inside out. endo is very imp, HTN secondary causes, cardio... do systolic and diastolic dysfx well, ID is vErY imp. derma again is heavily tested, eczemas, infections, cancers, Respo lots of q's on PE and acid base
you have to know most common org for each dz, best Abx to treat, and the features of dz
ECG: only 1! WPW, quite a few derma pics, few CxR, CT brain, coronal section... should be able to identify main structures
Preventive med: do risk factors of diseases and associations well.
biostats: easy questions, bioethics very few cf to step 1, UW type questions
I'm so scared! I just hope my exam went well!!! some of the q's were confusin... like what is better to prevent kidney stones... hydration or decrease protein and oxalate!
pray for me!! thanks guys
And wishing you all the best of luck! 
if you have any q's i'll be happy to answer!
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| alenka
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congratulations,merrk!
you did it!
and as you know from this forum-it's ok to be scared and unsure about your performance.but you did your best to prepare for this test,to take it.and i'm absolutely positive-your score will be high.
but for now-don't worry.relax and enjoy your life-you deserved it!
good luck
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| nisha
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Congrats Merrk! Could u comment a littler further about preventive medicine? Also what did u use for ur prep, and any correlations u'd wanna post would be appreciated.
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| phuluong2k
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hi, you will got good score
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