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 Internet looking for insightful information regarding USMLE Step 1, but it seems that the consensus is to just…
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. Most of my colleagues have already finished Step 1 or will be taking it in the…
The last two days of studying have been very productive but awfully frustrating. Biochemistry and microbiology are two courses which we covered in medical school (four months of microbio, at that), but it’s so much wrought memorization that it’s easy to often mix things up… especially when terms like rubella,…
It’s time to prep for the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) Step I! Baylor Med students tend to take Step I in the spring-time of their third year. Because we start clinical rotations 18 months into medical school, we have a year of rotations under our belts before embarking…