Physiology: Kaplan lecture notes with the Kaplan videos. After completing the subject I revised it in
3 days and after that did the mcqs from Kaplan Q bank. I annotated the Kaplan with any important
points from the videos and Kaplan q bank (especially all those questions which I got wrong). Pleas...
GUIDE TO USMLE STEP 1 PREPARATION: FAISAL SHAH JEHAN (268 on USMLE Step 1)
This experience and guidance manual has been written by Dr. Faisal Shah Jehan (Khyber Medical College Peshawar, Pakistan). We congratulate him for his great success and hope gets even greater success in future. It is must read end-to-end !
QUICK SUMMARY: Duration: 9 months 17 days. (June 1, 2015- March17, 2016) Total break days: about 35 days. I used to take a day off every now and then just to refresh the mind. Study Hours: 8am-8pm (but in last month: 8am-11pm) Material Used: •All Kaplan 2014 Videos with Kaplan Lecture notes(LN) •Pathoma (Most important) & Goljan for Pathology •First Aid 2015 and 2016 Question banks: •Kaplan Q bank (offline): during first read of Kaplan LN •USMLE world Q bank (online): most imp source •USMLE Rx Q bank (Only for Basic sciences not the systemic) NBMEs: NBME 1(offline): Score 200 Before starting preparation on June 1st, 2015 NBME 13(offline): Score 235 On September 1st, 2015 NBME 15(offline):Score 249 1st January, 2016 NBME 16(online):Score 262 10th February, 2016 (One month before exam) NBME 17(offline):Score 270 1st March, 2016 (Two week before exam) NBME 18(online):Score 269 10th March, 2016 (One week before exam) EXAM DAY: 17th March, 2016 PREPARATION
After taking my final year examinations at my medical college before starting the preparation I took
NBME 1 on 1st June, 2015 in which my score was 200. I set it as a baseline score. I started from Biochemistry. PREPARATION PHASE 1:
Biochemistry: Kaplan lecture notes with the Kaplan videos. After completing the subject I revised it
in 3 days and after that did the mcqs from Kaplan Q bank. I annotated the Kaplan with any important points from the videos and Kaplan q bank (especially all those questions which I got wrong). Try to learn as much from them as possible, especially genetics because on actual board exam there is a lot of genetic questions and most of them are quite difficult actually. But if you have
clear concepts then you can do it. Physiology: Kaplan lecture notes with the Kaplan videos. After completing the subject I revised it in
3 days and after that did the mcqs from Kaplan Q bank. I annotated the Kaplan with any important points from the videos and Kaplan q bank (especially all those questions which I got wrong). Please
focus on CVS and pulmonary physiology. First Aid hasn’t covered them adequately and there are a lot of questions from CVS and pulmonary physiology. Try to clear your concepts and learn with arrows, graphs and charts. Pharmacology: Kaplan lecture notes with the Kaplan videos. After completing the subject I revised it in 3 days and after that did the mcqs from Kaplan Q bank. I annotated the Kaplan with any important points from the videos and Kaplan q bank (especially all those questions which I got wrong). For pharmacology the choice is yours you can either choose to do it from Kaplan or if you don’t want to do it from Kaplan, then First Aid and Uworld are also enough for pharmacology. Microbiology and immunology: Kaplan lecture notes with the Kaplan videos. After completing the subject I revised it in 3 days and after that did the mcqs from Kaplan Q bank. I annotated the Kaplan with any important points from the videos and Kaplan q bank (especially all those questionsThis study source was downloaded by 100000840275362 from CourseHero.com on 03-31-2022 18:10:31 GMT -05:00
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