Ki67
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Preparation time: 3 weeks with full time job( 4-6 hours/day weekdays, 8-10h/day weekends)
Studied Crush 2X and UW all once and the wrong ones again
USMLE CD: 75-80%
NBME 1 week before: 310,I was not very careful though so I took it anyway
UW ~55% first time, ~70% second
Took the exam: May 19 and 20, I thought it was not very hard, cases easy but MQCs vague, always had to guess between 2 possible answers. You need common sense and clinical experience more than actual studying. I made dozens of stupid mistakes...
Actual score reported June 4th: 206/85 
I took step1 in December 26th , step2 March 31st and I have done my IM residency in Europe in 2003 so I guess these both helped.
I am so happy!
Thanks to everybody!
Bye Bye USMLE
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| hottie99
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hey congrats!!!! ur all done now!! that's sooo great, did u use ur ck notes, i plan to take it by few months, i dont want to drag it out either!! just got my stp 1 score, so now am 'certified' and can apply to step 3 exam, and hopefully i finish that as well by this summer, but i think u have done really well!!!
any advice for a future test taker on the ccs cases, since i haven't done residency here yet n the states?? 
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| damian33
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Very impressive great job Congrats thanks for sharing
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| damian33
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Very impressive great job Congrats thanks for sharing
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| Ki67
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Thanks guys!!
My advise for the ccs.... I did the uw cases and the cd for the last 4 days, but only on the evenings as I was working full time.
I think these are more than enough as I scored ccs very high. I would recommend to do a couple of basic stuff to all the patients, like focused clinical examination, glucose and ecg etc and then start treatment. My guess is that no one is gonna die in 2 mins that takes to do them, but if you do something wrong because you have the wrong diagnosis-->you killed him.
I had a case of a 50 y.o that had a chest pain after eating peanuts: first thought would be to do pulmonary consultation/rigid bronchoscopy to take the peanut out, right? I was surprised to see that my ecg showed anterior MI!!!!!  so stick with a basic plan of examination that applies to almost all the patients and start treatment when you are sure.
Good luck!!!
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| xthine
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^^ Does the software actually tell you your patient died? Or that the patient is just not getting better?
I'm really stressing out over my CCS, all my patients got better but i feel I could have managed them more efficiently.
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