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With only one rotation left in medical school (my internal medicine sub-internship in January 2013), I have the next few months to attend to my residency interviews and extracurriculars. That being said, I wanted...

Per the USMLE website, Step 2 Clinical Skills (CS) "uses standardized patients to test medical students and graduates on their ability to gather information from patients, perform physical examinations, and communicate their findings to...

The night before the exam, I slept a total of 2-3 hours. After midnight, my mind was racing with everything I learned over the last few weeks. It's like I was consciously consolidating information;...

Tomorrow I'll be taking the most important exam of my life to date - the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) Step 1. I've spent countless hours reading and completed thousands of practice questions,...

Over the last 48 hours, I've completed UWorld's SA #2 and NBME #7, scoring equivalent scores of 265 and 259, respectively. While I'm humbled by these results, the real exam is 75% longer than...

At this point, I've gone through all 2090 USMLE World questions, UWorld's Self Assessment #1 (around 200 questions), over 1000 NBME questions, 300 questions from Kaplan's free Qbank, the 138 questions from the USMLE...

Between getting the house ready for my grandmother to visit and the NBA All Star festivities, today was a lax day in terms of studying. I've reached the point where I'm now browsing the...

This evening was a milestone in my studying - I finished the 2090 questions in USMLE World's Step 1 question bank. Now it's 4am, and I'm struggling to get through endocrinology in First Aid....