If you do your best to prepare for every single shelf exam during third year, by the time you get to Step 2 CK studying, you’ll be way ahead. I also did every exam in the NBME Clinical Mastery series prior to the relevant shelf, cross-referencing UWorld and OME as necessary, to fully understand each question that I had gotten wrong. To do well on these exams, you need a comprehensive foundation, which in my case was built using UWorld and OnlineMedEd videos. Now, many of you might say, you remember better by writing. You wouldn’t be able to write everything down, which is why I prefer typing the notes. Remember, in Step 2 CK the volume of information is huge. I will post some of my pediatrics notes from USMLE World. When you get a tricky question right on a shelf exam, you often find yourself saying, “I’m lucky I saw that one time!” But you won’t excel if you leave content mastery, a key component of test prep, to luck. So today, I will show you how I took notes from USMLE World. If you think about it, what you see and are taught on the wards is essentially random. It may seem obvious, but it’s important to recognize that test-taking requires a fundamentally different skillset than actually practicing medicine. This can be challenging because what you learn on the wards may not have any relevance to how you are assessed on the shelf. Proper preparation for shelf exams during rotations is key to establish a solid foundation for Step 2 CK.
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