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Tips to Success on USMLE Step 1

Tips to Success on USMLE Step 1. Ben Weinberg January 5, 2010. Outline. Quick Tips to Success Sample Study Schedule Must-have Books Other Books What Not to Do. Quick Tips to Success. Don’t freak out Study at least a little every day but take one day off per week

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Tips to Success on USMLE Step 1

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  1. Tips to Success on USMLE Step 1 Ben Weinberg January 5, 2010

  2. Outline • Quick Tips to Success • Sample Study Schedule • Must-have Books • Other Books • What Not to Do

  3. Quick Tips to Success • Don’t freak out • Study at least a little every day but take one day off per week • Make a schedule (if you want) to cover all organ systems/topics • Review high yield books/materials for each topic • Do lots of practice questions (and read the answers) • Listen to Goljan as much as possible • Do some practice tests and simulate full-length tests after the comprehensive exam

  4. Sample Study Schedule

  5. What to Review for Each System • Gross Anatomy (basic) • Microanatomy (basic) • Physiology • Pathology • Pharmacology

  6. First Aid Rapid Review Pathology (Goljan) BRS Physiology(Costanzo) What Books MUST I have? Q-banks: Kaplan and USMLE World

  7. High-YieldBehavioral Science Step-Up to Medicine Other Books + Other BRS Series Books (e.g. Physiology) + Other High-Yield Series Books (e.g. Neuroanatomy, Gross Anatomy, Embryology)

  8. What Not To Do • Do not postpone your test date for no reason • Have a general schedule but don’t obsess about planning out each individual day • Don’t worry about what other students are doing • Don’t start studying before ICS • Don’t start studying too late • Don’t forget to study ICS material too • Don’t study all the time, pace yourself!

  9. Questions? Ben Weinberg bweinber@usc.edu www.benweinberg.com

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