genbot wrote:
I think the strategy is flawed.
While fact based learning holds u in good stead for Step 1, u need a lot more than that to do well at Step 2.
The two steps are basically two different types of exams.
Step 1 tests u heavily on factual knowledge and the questions are pretty concise and straightforward. You are not given a lot of misleading clues. Most of the times u either know the answer or u dont.
Step 2 on the other hand in addition to testing ur factual knowledge also concentrates on ur ability to pick out important stuff strewn within a lot of useless junk that makes up most of its huge questions. It demands a lot of intuitive understanding of a lot disease processes and constantly asks u to do a lot of lateral thinking. Infact most questions have at least 3 questions within them. Only when u resolve the apparent vaguesness of the questions can u move forward and use ur factual knowledge to good effect.

Using only Uworld for preparing for step 2 is fraught with danger. Though it may be a great resource of factual information, it does not help a great deal with resolving complex clinical situations presented in Step 2.

I hope this helps u to sort out some of ur problems...

hgheith wrote:
Dirtyplay28, I actually bought these off ebay, I had the old ones on about 14 dvd's but I needed this file format which put all the lectures on only 2 dvd's for only $15.
If you have the condensed version, you can open the equalizer in windows media player and find the speed control, that should work.
but converting files I couldn't help, I wouldn't know where to begin, sorry!
Good luck!