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last day before the exam.
REvise some tables in FA now.
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| ALS
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Robin,
Best of luck tomorrow! Don't study too late tonight. You have been doing great and you will do great on the exam!
I am reading UW notes on respiratory and infection, plan to read kaplan note on these two sections today.
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| robin082006
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Thank ALS
I have to read this notes one more since it is high yield.
Changes related to normal ageing
Vision
1. Impaired vision due to Presbyopia (usually correctable by lens).
2. Overflow of tears due to blockage of drainage ducts.
3. Dry eye
Hearing
• Hearing loss
Sensation
• Blunted touch sensation, especially near the tips of fingers and toes.
• Blunted temperature sensation.
Heart-lung function
• Mild shortness of breath which does not affect normal daily activities.
Digestive system
• Constipation
Urination
• More frequent urination at night.
Memory
• Mild impairment of memory or learning ability.
Muscles and joints
• Joint pain, especially in knees and in the obese.
• Increased forward bending of the spine.
Sexual function
• Reduced sex drive.
• (For men) More time is needed to achieve and sustain erection of penis.
• (For women) Vagina may be painful during intercourse because of reduced secretion.
Symptoms you should not ignore
1. Sudden onset of eye pain, red eye or impaired vision: it may be due to Glaucoma.
2. Visual impairment that cannot be corrected by spectacles------it may be symptom of Cataract.
3. Sudden onset of hearing impairment.
4. Secretion from the ear------this may be due to ottitis media or externa.
5. Sudden loss of sensation or muscle power in one or more limbs------this may be due to stroke.
6. Shortness of breath at low exercise level (such as walking on level ground) and wheezing. These may be due to chronic bronchitis, asthma or heart failure.
7. Sudden change of bowel habit, e.g. alternative diarrhea and constipation.
8. Blood or mucus in stool.
9. Difficulty or pain while passing urine------these may be due to urinary tract infection.
10. (For men) Difficulty in urination, terminal dribbling, feeling of incomplete bladder emptying------these may be due to prostate disease.
11. Impairment in cognitive functions e.g. Difficulty in calculation and logical thinking, or getting lost in familiar environment------this may be due to dementia.
12. Severe or persistent joint pain.
13. Joint deformity.
14. (For women) Abnormal vaginal bleeding after intercourse------this may be due to cervical cancer.
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| snowdrops
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BEST WISH FOR YOUR CK EXAM, ROBIN082006!
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All the best robin.
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May ALLAH bless you
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| robin082006
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Thank you Snowdrops, Ing, Muna.
Good luck to you.
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Robin wish you the very best. I am sure you'll do great and you'll give us a great news soon.
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all the very best..
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good luck Robin !
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| ALS
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Hi Robin, how did it go?
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| Aashi
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Hope your exam went all well robin..
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| robin082006
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Done with the exam
The exam is really hard.
Questions are long like Kaplan qbank, I finished all blocks ontime and did not have time to revise marked qs.
Block 1: I was shocked because It is so hard than I thought, harder than NBME.
Block 2,3,4,5,6 is Ok
Block 7: hardest, lots of polytrauma qs and answer options are very similar, I just picked the answer and not sure, my brain seemed to be bombed by this block.
Block 8: lots of doctor-patient relationship qs and every option seems to be correct.
Only 1 q about statistics and very easy, 1 q about developmental and easy.
IM is heavily tested.
Most difficult: surgery especially trauma q, they are so complicated and answers are confusing.
I am very sad after going out the test center, i am afraid that I would get a low score and this is so baddddddd.
About 10% qs I have no clue to pick the answer.
Other 10% qs I confused between 2 options.
All problems are mentioned in Kaplan notes but they rephrased the option choices and made us confused. I mean They say the problem in different ways.
So sad,
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| snowdrops
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Hi, Robin:
I am glad you are back!
I am sure you did your best for the exam. Don't feel bad. Normally, people feel bad, turn out got good score. It's time to have a good sleep and relax for a while, then move on to next one.
Thank you telling us some information from the exam!
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Robin,thanks for sharing ur experience..I agree with snowdrops, we have seen so many ppl in this forum,who has terrible exam experiences, finally gettin in high 90s and in fact 99..
So Just relax,get some well deserved rest,dont think abt the exam, its all over and so lets just forget abt it..
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Robin, finally you have done that. Dont be sad, we cannot do all of the Qs correct, because it is the characteristic of the Exam. We only know that we do our best, and so did you.
I also checked and rewrote the Qs that I had been asked in the night after my exam, and I saw that I made many awful wrong Qs. One sleepless night with over 300 Qs unforgotten!
Good luck to your score
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| ALS
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robin,welcome back! I agree with snowdrops and Aashi about the common terrible feeling after the test. I think the score will be much higher than you are thinking right now
By the way, do you think it is good idea to wrap up by using FA and UW notes in the last a few days?
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| ALS
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Aashi, Good luck tomorrow, wish you the best!
Robin, Good luck with your score. Don't worry, you will be fine, we need to be confident both before and AFTER the test. Have another party planned this weekend?
I have 3 days to go, nervous but excited too, just cannot wait to join you and huyniid!
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| Aashi
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Thanks ALS..
GL to u too..
Robin,dont worry, GL with the results
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| ALS
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yesterday I scanned through the FA section of OB,read some UW notes, and the trauma part of kaplan note of Surgery since Robin mentioned that polytrauma is the most difficult part of his exam, this is one of my weak area as well.
Two more days left, I will go over the GYN, Ped FA today, also plan to go over Renal Kaplan note hopefully today, or tomorrow, . But I will be resting most of day tomorrow and ready to welcome the big day
Finally I am getting there!
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| robin082006
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Aashi wrote:
Thanks ALS..
GL to u too..
Robin,dont worry, GL with the results
Thank Aashi, good luck.
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| robin082006
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ALS wrote:yesterday I scanned through the FA section of OB,read some UW notes, and the trauma part of kaplan note of Surgery since Robin mentioned that polytrauma is the most difficult part of his exam, this is one of my weak area as well. Two more days left, I will go over the GYN, Ped FA today, also plan to go over Renal Kaplan note hopefully today, or tomorrow, . But I will be resting most of day tomorrow and ready to welcome the big day Finally I am getting there!
Thank ALS
Good luck.
trauma and musculosketeltal are tested heavily, revise them.
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Hello robin082006,
1st of all...GOD LUCK FOR YOUR EXAM....u'll do great..we're all prayin for you!!!...i have a question...u mentiond in ur last post that trauma & mukulosk is heavily tested.....are the trauma & muskulosk topics in kaplan notes enough for the exam or do v need to see other sources like crush & 1st aid.
Thanks,
Dr.Luck!
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| Aashi
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Hi guys,
Gave CK yday..Had a good sleep after the exam,so tht i can gather some energy to quote my 'exam experience'..man It was tough..neither NBME or UW are the true representive of this exam..its a very VAGUE exam..Most of the time I was guessing ,or had to choose the best of the lot..Its not that the one of them will be perfectly right answer and all others were never close to the real answer, the fact is that the diff b/w each options will be just a word,not the whole sentence..so u will spend time reading the options again and again..some qs were shorter and some ver really long,and i had all the long qs towards the last blocks and I missed answering one q in my 5 th block coz of lack of time..
Lots of vague psych qs,u will be stuck which one to pick,coz all of the present with the same s/s...horrible..lot of pathophysiology, 2-3 anatomy qs and yes 6 EKGS out which 2-3 was PEDS EKG qs,which i got on a matching set!..say 10-20 out of the whole bunch were direct qs,which we have practised before either in NBME or UW..had 9 epidemiology qs,all ver weird,and I didnt get any BIO stats qs..urinary retentions qs,lots of neonatology s/s and pics..the EKG werent that clear,in the sense that they dont paste it as a strip( or as whole picture).. they paste it in 20 bits and pieces,and ur eyes has to paste them all together and imagine how it will look like on a running strip..teriible!..
Robin I totally can now understand how u might have felt after this exam..right now I just hope to pass,coz I cant imagine attempting this exam again..No matter how much we study,we will still end up feeling horrible at the end of the day..
GL for all the future step2 ck takers....pray for us..
Edited by Aashi on 03/30/07 - 06:31 AM
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Aashi,
Thanks for sharing your experience with us. From Robin and your experience, I am prepared to be "beaten up" tomorrow
Good luck with your score!
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