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How to (potentially) find out your USMLE Step 2 CS score early

A quick walkthrough of a method to (potentially) find out your USMLE Step 2 CS score early.

Cracking the NBME Shelf Exam: Neurology

For many, if not most medical students, neurology is perceived as a difficult subject due to the combination of anatomical minutiae regarding the brain and the nervous system and the challenge of localizing lesions. Make no mistake, I headed into the clerkship with this

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Cracking the NBME Shelf Exam: Family Medicine

Medical students across the US often like to rag on Family Medicine as an "easy" specialty, but the NBME shelf exam for FM is anything but. The challenge lies in its breadth, covering mostly ambulatory/outpatient topics from internal medicine, OB/GYN,

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Violence is Violence

By now, the police shooting of fourth-year University of Chicago student Charles Thomas after Thomas charged at a UCPD officer with a metal pipe has been covered extensively in the

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Cracking the NBME Shelf Exam: Internal Medicine

The most challenging aspect of the Internal Medicine shelf is its breadth. From cardiology to nephrology to gastroenterology, the rule of thumb is that if there's a fellowship for it, there's almost certainly going to be a few shelf questions on it. Since most

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Cracking the NBME Shelf Exam: Pediatrics

General Thoughts: The Pediatrics shelf isn't extraordinarily difficult, but it's not a cakewalk either. Because pediatrics is a broad, primary care specialty, you're more than likely to get a few wildcard questions out of left field on things that you might not have encountered

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Stop Feeling Sorry for Unmatched Caribbean MDs

If you get newsletter emails from Doximity, you might have noticed this article from the Skeptical Scalpel blog making the rounds recently. Contained within is a familiar sob story that can be summarized as follows: anon goes to Caribbean medical school, anon graduates from

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Cracking the NBME Shelf Exam: OB/GYN

General Thoughts: The OB/GYN shelf is generally considered to be relatively easier compared to some of the others (e.g. surgery), but don't let that be an excuse for slacking off - OB/GYN contains a lot of domain-specific topics that you might

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Cracking the NBME Shelf Exam: Surgery

The most important thing to realize about the NBME surgery shelf exam is that it's not at all about the technical details of surgery, but rather the medical management of patients who had or need to have a surgical procedure. It could be described

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If you're a medical student using UWorld to study for USMLE Step 1, you've likely been admonished with this message (many times) more than once while a test is running. Well, this is the 21st century, and we have better things to do on