I'm an M2 at US MD school. I've been working my ass off in classes, but also planing ahead for Step 1. Using a new account to hide my identity, so I can be completely honest.
M1 grades: all honors. M2 grade goals: as close to all honors as I can get (currently all H). Step 1 goal: highest I can get.
Here's my plan:
1) Finish Pathoma with classes (multiple passes spread throughout the year).
2) Read FA14/15 once before exams. Not annotating because, according to a 3rd year friend, people who generally do well during the year don't need to annotate much. It's a waste of time because most of the information annotated either comes back rapidly or is retained throughout the year.
3) 90%+ completion of M2 material in RX and UW. I haven't done any M1 questions in the qbanks, and don't plan to until dedicated.
4) During dedicated studying, I plan study for roughly 6-7 weeks. I will do 2 detailed passes through FA and 1 quick one in the final week. I will start dedicated with a pass through RX then switch to UW until the last week or so when I will just focus on incorrects, personal notes, FA, and free 150s the day before. I also plan on doing ~1.5 passes through Pathoma along with some time spent looking through Microcards, Pharmcards, Anki cards I made, and maybe RR Path.
5) To build endurance and track progress, I will be doing double NBMEs/UWSA once per week.
6) Doing qbanks so far, I noticed I can generally do a block of UW/RX in under 30 minutes excluding review. Based on that, I plan on putting an additional time restriction on NBMEs. I'll start with only 50 minutes per block and slowly build to 25 minutes per block, or more, to emulate the time crunch everyone reports experiencing on the real thing. It will probably lower the accuracy of NBMEs in predicting my real Step 1, but as long as the prediction is in the negative direction compared to reality, I'm okay with it.
Yes, I sound like a cut throat psycho or a troll. That's why I made a new account for this. I'm completely serious.
When I was in college, I was cocky as hell about getting into med school, and it screwed me over badly. I learned the hard way that the only way I could get where I wanted to go was by working my ass off all the time. I don't know what I want to specialize in, but I want absolutely nothing to hold me back. I plan on rocking Step 1/2 and third year as hard as possible to ensure that.
I'd love to hear what you guys think.
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