If you want to review & memorize and pass USMLE Step I, study KAPLAN.

If you want to learn medicine and pass USMLE Step I, study NAJEEB.

They are 2 different programs, KAPLAN is a review; NAJEEB is thorough medicine; a foundation.

An intelligent student keeps his mind open to all possible ways of knowledge. His students know the difference between memorizing and learning medicine.
If you want good advice call your parents and ask them if they want you to memorize medicine or if they want you to understand medicine completely to become great doctors and as a byproduct pass Step I with a good score.
Most students go to med schools to become good doctors but when they try to memorize complex medical concepts without understanding, it becomes a MENTAL TORTURE. Then they only want a degree to get the f’ outta here.

Dr. Najeeb’s course is not for those who just want a degree!
Dr. Najeeb’s course is not only about passing USMLE Step I.

It’s about learning medicine with proper foundation and being the best doctor you can be. It’s for those who have a big passion to become great doctors. Yes he is still building his course but even if you watch half of his video lectures you learn how to learn medicine. If you watch his 500 videos with time management you will make your foundations strong. This way when you go back to the States you will talk with Harvard and Yale graduates about medicine, not only about the fun time you had in the Caribbean. LOL

**Don’t forget one day you will be facing your patients and you will not be expected to recite your 10,000 MCQ’s to them; you will be expected to manage them with sound knowledge. MCQ’s are just a tool to check your knowledge, they are not knowledge. By tips and tricks you may fool MCQ’s but not your patients. There was a time when USMLE questions were straight forward, and just memorizing "Buzz Words" was enough. Now more and more multi-step MCQ’s are appearing in Step I, which require some thought process and brains. So take the time now and study properly so you are not only prepared for Step I but also for your patients.

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So Dr Najeeb is like Goljan, the pass program in Chicago and like Fiisher all in one packet good for him.
I just do not know any one that have taken his course and have passed the exam, and why doesn't he take the exams himself?

I do not endorse or the opposite to endorse him.
If people are able to learn from him for all means take advantage of it, and passed the exams with good grades, and understand medicine for the future well being of your patients.

Also there is button next to the letter a called CAPS LOCK, if you hit it once it will make the words in CAPITAL or BIG, if you hit it again it will take that effect out.

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Some day I will be the next Goljan/Daugherty/fysher for IMG's all over the world.

For the people that are interested in knowing about Dr. Najeebs pass rate.

I take Dr. Najeeb´s course and before I did I had some of same questions for him.
He informed me that one of his last students passed with a 99. She graduated back in 1988 and had failed twice after taking some review courses. The lady, mother of four children who never thought now that she could come back to the medical field took Dr. Najeebs course and passed. His student test average back in Pakistan was 92-93 depending on the year. Soon some of the students here will be taking the exams within the next six months. He has passed the British system and doesn’t plan to take the USMLE steps because he is not interested applying for a residency in the USA. He is a teacher and has been for the last 20 years. He covers subjects like;
Molecular biology
Genetics
Histology
Embryology
Biochemistry
Physiology
Neuroanatomy
Neurophysiology
Immunology
Pharmacology
Pathology
Systemic Pathology
Microbiology
Behavior Sciences
Hope this info helps some people OK!

IMG Survivor, what you said about Najeeb being like Goljan, *******, and ****** all in one is very interesting because it brings up something that I have been telling some fellow students lately. Dr. Najeeb does what they do and much much more. I know it may be hard for some to believe but he is really THAT good. When he teaches you something, he integrates and correlates by taking you all the way down to the histological level to get his point across and make the concept clear. When he gave his lecture on Macrocytic Megaloblastic Anemia a few days ago, he drew out every single step from the moment B12 and Folic Acid are ingested all the way to the biochemical reactions that lead to the synthesis of dTMP. From there he drew the relationship of that whole process with the process of hematopoesis from stem cells. When the lecture was over, we were able to see why you end up with macrocytes in the blood and megaloblasts in the bone marrow. I tell you that he teaches all of this in a way that allow the students to be able to draw back the whole process. So after watching Najeeb, you can go back to a book or listen to some audios and as you are reading or listening to what is being said, you will be imagining and recreating in your head everything that really goes on.

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Hey GUYZ where is the person who actually started the forum

Hi. I was in a Dr. Najeeb's life lecture and I fuond it quiet interestig, interctive and funny, very easy to undestand, and I really thing that it worth it. belive me, I've seen almost every video from kaplan's, and the difference is too way big, I thing najeeb is better than kaplan when you need to learn rather than review. God bless you all guys.

I want to know why the center is closed on wednesday's instead of sunday's? More people study during the week no?

I think that because of my language barrier, some people missunderstood what I tried to say in the post that I'm quoting. I have received many emails just asking me why I think is a good review, and I never tried to imply that in any moment.

So look for the big black numbers above and the proper response below:

1- That was suppose to be a sarcastic comment
2- He does not have a proven record and I do not know personally anyone that has used his teaching method and pass the exam. Also I do not know his reasons why he has not passed the exams himself.
3-I always have tried to be fair so I can't say it is a good review or a bad one.

The same idea that goes with the books I also said in number 3, if you think that you are learning with a book more than from another book by all means use the book you are able to understand, but remember that you are learning not for a test, but for the well being of your future patients.
I hope this will clear out any confusion from the previous post

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