elmerphud
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alright people.... i took my exam last week and then promptly got sick on friday .... got to thank a fellow step 1 student who reminded me to do this... so i'm going to answer his/her questions....
let's see now...
i started seriously studying third week of january. i studied before then but only for a few hours per day.
books: behavioural science - kaplan
epi - kaplan and other online sources
anatomy - kaplan and online (brs in the beginning and then stopped)
neuroanatomy - kaplan and online
molecular biology, cellular biology, histo - kaplan and online sources
genetics - kaplan
biochemistry - kaplan and brs
physiology - kaplan
microbiology - brs
pharmacology - lippincott's and kaplan
pathology - goljan audio, review book and online sources (webpath, pathguy, etc)
I studied at borders for a few weeks so that i knew i could exist with other humans, otherwise i was going crazy by myself...
there is a pathophysiology book by lippincott that was really good for me to read through... it put the signs and symptoms together ... i felt that was the best.
Kaplan Qbank for a month. i studied first and then went through the questions.
NBME exam 1(beg march- 570-- got to say that i had taken this exam once before several months ago so ... got to factor that in..) and 2 (beg april- 460)
I'm not really sure about kaplan dvd's.... i don't have them myself... and i think they have some updated/new ones...
Kaplan Q book, and I bought the 2006 First Aid as well.
I had blackwell clinical vignettes as well.
My scores were between 65% and 72% on most exams... some were really tought some were easy. very different from nbme exams
a lot of people say nbme scores are predictable of your actual exam. we'll see.
i also went through the cd that they send us when we sign up.. i had atleast 3-4 questions directly from the cd!!
The type of questions...: they weren't like nbme ... they were a bit more clinical than i was used to but i was glad that i read through the system based 2006 first aid!!
I'm not really sure.... how else to explain it... one of the questions asked about a pt who had x disease and was treated by a drug. now he is given
drug b to treat y symptom and they ask what electrolytes should be monitored??... i had to think about this one a lot before i figured it out. for those of you who already think clinically this way, it won't be bad... for me though it was a struggle.
there were a few drug interactions ... a few micro questions : straightforward.
very few behavioural science or epi... i am good with molecular biology, etc but i had only a 3-4 questions in that area.
... i'll continue....
Edited by elmerphud on 05/02/06 - 01:18 PM
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| elmerphud
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 i wish i would have studied the way i did in feb and march from the beginning...
anyway, i was studying at night times and getting up later in the day and then the last few days i tried to change back to sleeping at night.. didn't work too well. i was sooo tired ... and i was sooo nervous that i didn't sleep at all..... so i as tired on the day of the exam.. i definitely recommend that you get a good night's rest... please don't make the mistake that i made!! 
i mostly had path/physio/ micro combo... with pharm thrown in... the questions were more like the kaplan Q bank...
I recommend that you do the CD that they send us... had 3-4 questions from there...
I had a lot of images... drawn and CTs... the drawn ones were had to understand... CTs were mostly abdominal sections.. so make sure how these look like especially in diseased conditions...
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| ing
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Thanks! Good luck to you!
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| spitmetal
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good luck
i have a question what does drawn mean im an img so i dont understand that word...
i searched it in a dictionary but it have like a million meanings so could you tell me what do u mean?
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| samdoc
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hi , spitmetal,
WHat elmerphud meant by 'drawn' was --actually 'drawings' of images and CT scans
not the actual CT scan itself but a drawing of it, and maybe drawings of other images as well.
Hope you got it
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| samdoc
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Hey , thanks alot elmerphud
waiting for more of the questions to be answered.
Could you post up , the online sources you used for epidemiology and Anatomy?
thanks in advance
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| spitmetal
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yeah i got it thanks samdoc
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| elmerphud
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http://medstat.med.utah.edu/neurologicexam/html/c...
http://www.boardsandwards.com/questions_step1.php
these two are like a summary for path but i glanced at it and one of my friends liked it.. so hm... take a look..
http://www.pathguy.com/meltdown.txt
http://www.pathguy.com/boildown.txt
http://depts.washington.edu/bioethx/topics/
http://www.kumc.edu/research/medicine/biochemistr...
http://www.gwu.edu/~mpb/
http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/webpath.ht...
here's the place where someone listed a whole bunch of the useful sites:
http://www.valuemd.com/usmle-step-1-forum/44221-u...
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| elmerphud
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here's another site which has a lot of links.. didn't use it much though..
http://www.medicalstudent.com/
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| raves
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thanks elmerphud for sharing with us ur valuable resources.though i dont have enough time left but still will try doing some qustions.thanks a bunch
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| kuku
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thanks elmerphud for ur great resources
especially mneemonics link was wonderful
i got a great help from that
i really appriciate your sharing nature
i also request to other to share their resource
i will also try if i get
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| elmerphud
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 thanks guys and good luck to you all as well...
i haven't heard from them yet so i'm waiting... and trying not to screamm!!
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