USMLE Step 1 ... WOW

[aychamo]

Hello hello!

I was at the book store yesterday and picked up a review book for the USMLE step 1. I'm still in college, but I've taken a good handful of biology classes. I was able to answer maybe 1 out of every 40 or so questions in the practice tests for Step 1.

The questions are a lot of "This xx year old hootchie comes in with xx and xx and has done xx and xx." We learn this much stuff in the basic sciences? Are the basic sciences in med school nearly totally clinically oriented? That's some amazing shit!

[dish]

HI

I know, the practice questions on the USMLE do look pretty daunting right now. But I'm sure that we will learn how to do them or else Saba wouldn't have such a high pass rate on the examination (around 93-95%). I also think that we get special training (Kaplan maybe) for the exam in one of our senior semesters.

Don't worry about that now....didn't you think the MCAT was pretty scary before you took that?

take care
dish