Step 1 Step 1 Step 2 - CK (clinical knowledge)
- CS (clinical skills)
Step 3
Subjects Subjects - Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Pharmacology, Behavioral sciences, Pathology, Microbiology.
Avg. time required to prepare - 8- 12H/day, 6 days a week for 5-12M, try to be consistent
Fee - 740$+140$ (International Test Delivery surcharges) =880$
Test centers
Date of exam - Every Wednesday, Thursday throughout the year
Exam format - Computer based exam
- Total exam time
- Tutorial
- Total no. of MCQs
- Total no of blocks
- 7 (each block contains 48 MCQs and lasts 1H. Beginning May 15, 2010 total no of questions in each block will be reduced to 46)
- Time for break
- 45 min, you can take breaks between any 2 blocks but not within a block.
Subjects Subjects - Medicine, Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Psychiatry
Avg. time required to prepare - 8-12H/day, 6 days a week for 4-8M
Fee Test centers - Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi
Date of exam Date of exam - Every Wednesday, Thursday throughout the year
Exam format - Computer based exam
- Total exam time
- Total no of MCQs
- Total no of blocks
- 8 (each lasts 1H and contains 44 MCQs)
Subjects tested Subjects tested Avg. time required to prepare - 6-8H/day for about 1 Month
Fee Test centers - Philadelphia, PA. Houston, TX. Chicago, IL. Atlanta, GA. Los Angeles, CA.
Date of exam Date of exam - Every day except Saturday and Sunday throughout the year
Exam Format - Involves direct patient encounters
- Total exam time
- Total no of stations
- Time available at each station
- 25 min, you are required to take history, do physical examination, determine differential diagnosis and then write down notes of 12 Simulated patients (SPs)
Subjects Subjects Avg. time required to prepare Total exam time Fee Test centers - all over USA and only in USA
Date of exam - Everyday including Saturday and Sunday
Take decision before graduation Take decision before graduation Buy books - Dictionaries
- Kaplan Lecture notes
- MCQs books like “USMLE World for step 1” and “Q bank for step 1”
- First Aid for step 1
First reading; First reading; - Just read and try to understand Kaplan Lecture notes, don’t try to memorize
- Use dictionaries aggressively
- Start with physiology
- Listen to Kaplan lecture notes DVDs specially Genetics and Behavioral sciences.
Second reading; - Try to memorize Kaplan lecture notes now
- Add MCQs books like USMLE WORLD (UW) series and Q BANK series (Boosters).
- Read pathology immediately after physiology
Third reading; Third reading; - Read Kaplan lecture notes again and add First Aid (you would start making your own questions).
- Kaplan test (available on CD)
- excellent test to check your speed
- NBME practice test (Buy on the internet)
- correlates very strongly with USMLE score
It’s time to go for exam….
Before graduation or after graduation! Before graduation or after graduation! Before house job, after house job or along With house job! - I want to get experience certificate
- The Knowledge I gain will help me in USMLE
- I am not that strong financially
Use multiple ways to learn knowledge (read books, use dictionaries, listen to class lectures, write down notes, listen to Kaplan DVDs, put notes on the walls) Use multiple ways to learn knowledge (read books, use dictionaries, listen to class lectures, write down notes, listen to Kaplan DVDs, put notes on the walls)
Duration from graduation (less than 5 years) Duration from graduation (less than 5 years) US Clinical Experience (electives, research and observer ship) Letter of Recommendations (LORs) preferably from American teachers Others (how did you utilize your time between graduation and application, performance at the day of interview)
We all have brains; we just need to use our brains in the right way. We all have brains; we just need to use our brains in the right way.
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