amkochhar
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It took me really long since I graduated in 2001 to muster courage to give my step 1 in Jan 2008.
I have been reading the post in this site ..... and now I have decided to write a journal myself.
I m working in saudi arabia and there is no one around giving MLE to look up to.
So any words of encouragement will be highly appreciated .
At present I am readng Pharma from Katzung combined with Kaplan 04 notes. My goal is to finish antiviral drugs,and NSAID today and to do questions from both the books. Time to get back to study.
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| amkochhar
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Day 2 and I am back.  yesterdays target achived with some questions remaining in inflammatory drugs.
Goal for today is to finish of with anti cancer drugs and do the related questions 
Best of luck to all the USMLE givers.
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| JavMD
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Hi amokochar.
Sometimes there is no one to look up to, or to help you out. Hopefully here you will find some persons that will motivate you.
We are all here to help each other, so take advantage of this community.
Few questions for you
1. List the drugs that make Lupus like syndrome. How will you remember these (mnemonic)??
2. Explain the pathophisiology of aspirin induced asthma.
3. Drug that specifically inhibit the lipooxygenase pathway?
Maybe we should combine ours posts. Just a thought.
Anyway good luck.
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| amkochhar
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hi JavMD
Thanks for the reply and questions ....
I will try to ans these without lookng into the book as I want to see how well I remember.
Only Drugs that I can remember for lupus are procanamide and hydralazine  u really cought me there.
Asprin is a non selective cox inhibitor so beside antiinflammatory effects from cox 1 inhibition the side effects like gastric mucosal damage, platelet inhibition, bronchospasm occur due to the cox 2 inhibition.
This cause disproportionate inc in the products of the Lox pathway hence leukoterens will cause bronnchospasm.
Leukoterens inhibition by zileuton (lox inhibitor) and various Leukasts (receptor -) sud help in asthma
Now I will chk the book
PG analogs are also imp in this discussion ....wud u like to write about them.
I wud be happy to combine the posts just tell me how to do that.
I cud not read anti cancers as the duty was heavy ....
will do it today
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| amkochhar
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hi
I finished off most of the pharma and now I will do it from the first aid
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| amkochhar
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Pharma over .... Did 2 blocks from rapid review score were 86% and 70 %...
I will start Physio today
Took my test dates today ..... 22 jan is now offically been finalised and there cant be any change to that   ....... thats it then my countdown starts 
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| amkochhar
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hi anybody starting physio can join me for the preparation I will start it with kaplan lecture notes and dvd.
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| amkochhar
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Today is the day for endocrinology...... Its a big topic and very high yield as well.
yesterday I did CVS.
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| amkochhar
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yes physio is now toward near completion ....
just need to do some questions
lets hope i cud read well today
good luck to u all
I m waiting for some questions from all of you to discuss
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| amkochhar
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Today is the day must rap up physio its taking to long 
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| amkochhar
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Have to start biochem today some remaining part of physio (renal) will be done later
Any one starting biochem sud join in .... I will start with caplan notes genetics first
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| amkochhar
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genetics done.... will start molecular bio today
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| amkochhar
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biochem allmost finished but have to leave some stuff for later and start behavior since for now
today is stats day
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| amkochhar
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thanks good behavior sci is over (some topics remaining) and I have started anatomy
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| antidepressant
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wow, you are a fast reader, Goodluck amkochhar, you will do great
when are u taking the test?
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| amkochhar
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Thanks Sir
I took my NBME 1 and the score is 71% correct ans.... in usmle cd block 1 correct ans 76%.... I dont know how to interpret this score but I will work a little harder to get near 80% correct ans.
All tis before my exam on 22nd of jan 2008
Plan is to finish first aid as soon as possible I am on 200 pg.
Thanks for the support antidepressant.
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| antidepressant
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wow, amk, 70% is a very good score, you will be in 90ies i think. my exam is around same time, but I havent taken any nbme recently. and i think, if i take, it will be 55-60%, thats not good at all. Anyway, you are doing great. Keep going, mine is on 28th january. GL.
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| amkochhar
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Now less then a mth is left to my exam so I will do questions and test daily and try to revise.
At present I am about to finish first aid and also systemic review of the course. Neuro and RS remaining ......will try to finish by tomorrow.
Good Luck to u as well anitidepressant.
I dont think its a grt idea to predict ur score without giving NBME .
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