
It's way easier to learn something like RTA when you're learning Everything else about renal than if you learn it a year later during dedicated study period. There are lots of topics that we never learn in class but that we have to know for boards (i.e., RTAs, amyloidosis).

Try to just gauge your own progress and not listen to others and what they are doing. Many people will talk about pushing back the exam quite a bit.This worked for me, but I would caution that is stressful and potentially too much for a relationship to handle (please keep this answer especially anonymous!) Be careful about studying with significant others.This would not have worked for me because I was simultaneously completing my research at the same time as pre-dedicated studying. Kaplan), depending on how stressed I was/how much time I had. I would consider doing a QBank before I started UWorld (e.g.In general, wind down on all existing responsibilities BEFORE February of pre-dedicated studying. I went to a research conference during dedicated to present my research.This way, I would have read FA twice before dedicated Read FA regularly as you go through the Feinberg curriculum.I started in dedicated, but I would have started to chip away starting in March

Start UWorld a little before dedicated so as to not have to study as many hours each day as I did.If you see yourself continually getting questions wrong, or not knowing why they're right, take extra time to utilize a different resource for those subjects. For me there were always certain subjects (like Nephritic & Nephrotic syndromes, biochemical pathways.) that I just struggled with. I would attempt to identify my weak spots early and drill them down.

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine students who scored more than one standard deviation above the national mean on the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 were asked what they would do differently if they had the opportunity to take Step 1 again.
