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@dr mle24

U asked me such a hard question. This, my friend, I don't know when to take the exam

But since u asked , it got me thinking . I guess by feb I should complete my first read of kaplans and uw. Then I will let seniors here guide me I personally aspire to have results in my hand before June by God's grace

Which Yr kaplan r you doing @remni?

@rosemary

my notes r photostat from a friend who had 2013 kaplans notes.

Sent!

thanks remni

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Two years flew by. School's out. Now its time for you to sit through an 8 hour exam -- Step 1 of the USMLE. It doesn't matter what you think you know. All you really know is that you don't know enough. My name is Veronica and I'm a Step-1 tutor. I've been there, done that and gotten the t-shirt. I've been tutoring for the past 5 years and I'm very passionate about my job. You know I can help you because I used to BE you. I know what you're feeling. I understand your doubts and apprehensions. I will give you the knowledge, strategy and above all, the confidence to sit for the Step-1 examination. I use online meetings (Becker/Kaplan style) to offer both written and live instruction, guiding you through your preparation at your personal pace. Included are my personal notes and anytime help via email. My rates are $55/hr with the first lesson at $25 flat. Contact me with further questions and to setup a schedule. Spaces limited.

veronicamedtutor

Hey, just a question abt Embryo... did you study it separately or with Gross Anatomy?? Did you listen to all the lecs of embryo separately first and then moved on to Gross or did you do it system wise like do embryo for thorax and then gross of thorax then embryo of abdomen and then gross of abdomen and so on.

Thanks

When I took up anatomy , First thing I did was to decide "what to do" in anatomy .

I took one day just to flip pages of the entire book and look what all is there in the kaplans book .
Then I did head and neck from gross anatomy followed by all 11 chapters of neuroscience, Word to word ,page to page from kaplans. I didn't see any videos of neuroanat .

In the gross anatomy of head and neck , I came across the embryology of fetal pharyngeal pouches.
Then in the first chapter of neuroscience, one page is dedicated to the development of cns.

So after completing head and neck, I decided to read general embryology first coz I realised I should know the base before jumping onto systems. So I read general embryology ( self reading first , then watching its lectures (lectures helped me to made sense of a lot of things. I never made any attempt to understand embryology in med school...I studied just enough to pass exams that time) .

After that general embryology , I started gross anatomy ...I read word to word, page to page of first 2 chapters of gross anatomy. So I read embryology portion only when I reached that page on which it is given and I watched all lectures in sequence as they are given. For me everything is an eye opener , I didn't even know that such a great understanding of mediastinum is required to figure out chest ct scans. I never knew why a certain ct scan has venous layer anteriorly and why others have arterial layer anteriorly .

Actually I'm a below average student, I find it all hard . So I make sure to read word to word. So that no information skips by. I'm going in sequence only.

I was supposed to start abdomen or limbs today but I decided I wanna see first 2 chapters of gross again (in one long sitting )rather than starting a new topic today. Last time when I did micro uworld , it knocked wind out of me it was so hard and even after reading all chapters of kaplans , I couldn't decode a whole lot of ques ... So I learnt my lesson that before jumping to uworld, my base has to be strong ..infact "very strong" to grasp concepts which uw wants to tell us.

So in anatomy , I am trying to lay foundation of a solid base, so that when I do uw, i can see what extra information uw wants To tell us. Sorry for the long boring post

Good luck!

@dragonslayer

In addition to the boring reply above , I wNna add one more point ..
I look at the page of germ layer derivatives ...again and again when I come across embryology of any system ...so that I remember the derivatives of endoderm, mesoderm etc