A big part of Step 1 preparation involves hours and hours of online practice questions designed to simulate USMLE testing conditions. The largest provider of such materials, Kaplan's notorious Q-Bank, consists of over 2,000 practice exam questions and costs $499.99 for a 3-month subscription. My subscription to Q-Bank begins on Thursday, March 1, and between this time and May 30 (my Step 1 testing day), I will have spent the better part of 150 hours reading, reviewing, and memorizing aspects of every single item. And just think -- that's less than half the study time required to really score well on the exam.
Did I mention your doctor had to pass THREE different USMLE Step Exams simply to become eligible to sit for even more specialized examinations?
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About Me
- Ohio State MD 2009
- Med-3 student at The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Favorite Medical Tomes
- Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 16th ed.
- Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 22nd ed.
- Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease
- Basic & Clinical Pharmacology
- Clinician's Pocket Reference
- First Aid for the Medicine Clerkship
- Netter's Clinical Anatomy
- Clinical Neuroanatomy Made Ridiculously Simple
- The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Medical Specialty
Favorite Non-Medical Books
- A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
- A Separate Peace
- Citizen Soldiers
- Empire Falls
- Pride and Prejudice
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
- The Confessions of St. Augustine
- The Guns of Autumn
- The Imitation of Christ
- The Island at the Center of the World
- The Wars of the Roses
- What It Means To Be A Buckeye
- Yankees Century
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