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    My Step 3 228 Experience:: Materials Used

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    The document summarizes a student's experience taking the USMLE Step 3 exam. They studied for 1.5 months using UWorld question bank and clinical case simulations once each. On test day, they found the pathophysiology and basic science questions to be straightforward. Biostatistics preparation is important as there is a large biostatistics component on day one. The clinical case simulations assess if examinees can safely manage patients. Taking a one day break between the two exam days was sufficient for this student to rest and prepare for day two, which contained mostly management questions similar to UWorld. Proper rest, hydration, and eating during breaks is important to perform well over the two days.

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    The document summarizes a student's experience taking the USMLE Step 3 exam. They studied for 1.5 months using UWorld question bank and clinical case simulations once each. On test day, they found the pathophysiology and basic science questions to be straightforward. Biostatistics preparation is important as there is a large biostatistics component on day one. The clinical case simulations assess if examinees can safely manage patients. Taking a one day break between the two exam days was sufficient for this student to rest and prepare for day two, which contained mostly management questions similar to UWorld. Proper rest, hydration, and eating during breaks is important to perform well over the two days.

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    The document summarizes a student's experience taking the USMLE Step 3 exam. They studied for 1.5 months using UWorld question bank and clinical case simulations once each. On test day, they found the pathophysiology and basic science questions to be straightforward. Biostatistics preparation is important as there is a large biostatistics component on day one. The clinical case simulations assess if examinees can safely manage patients. Taking a one day break between the two exam days was sufficient for this student to rest and prepare for day two, which contained mostly management questions similar to UWorld. Proper rest, hydration, and eating during breaks is important to perform well over the two days.

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    My step 3 228 experience:

    Materials used:
    Uworld step 3 qbank once
    Uworld CCS once

    Prep time- around 1.5 months

    What I did:
    On June 24th my step 2 Cs result came, at that point I was about 20% done
    with uworld. I picked up my pace after my result, applied for step 3 permit,
    went over uworld once leaving tables and algorithms out since they were taking
    time but took pictures of them and kept them. On 15th July my permit came
    and took the earliest available date of 4th and 5th august. Around 25th
    July started doing uworld CCS and with it did the tables and algorithms that I
    had saved for later.

    Bits and pieces of my whole experience:


    1. Studying for step 3 is probably the hardest of all the steps especially
    because most people like me don’t have the comfort of home to prepare
    for it and also because by the point you reach step 3 you’re almost fed up,
    so stay strong and tell yourself “you’re almost there”.
    2. MTB doesn’t represent the real exam even the new edition and too
    superficial in a lot of areas so it’s better to do uworld twice than do MTB
    3 and Uworld; but that’s my experience others may differ. So only do it if
    it’s been a while since your step 2 ck and your clinical knowledge is too
    rusty that uworld is not going to make sense to you unless you do MTB
    first.
    3. The pathophysiology and basic sciences component in step 3 is overrated,
    the questions in the real exam from basic sciences are too straight
    forward and simple that you can do them on your previous knowledge
    built by all the steps till step 3. Doing 1st aid might help a little but it’s too
    much work for too little change in outcome.
    4. Biostats has a big component in your 1st days MCQs so prepare for
    biostats better esp. if it’s your weak subject. Don’t go for the exam
    without having a grip on biostats.
    5. CCS is pretty straightforward use uworld software and official software
    on USMLE website to get to know the software better. Rest is just
    straight forward approach. In fact the whole gist of step 3 is that they
    want to know if you know how to navigate a patient if you’re left alone in a
    setting where you’re the only doctor. If you’re a safe doctor and if you
    know when to order a test or a treatment. They want us to treat the
    patient not the disease. So you should have a holistic approach towards a
    disease, take care of every aspect from drug side effects to preventive
    medicine to counseling.
    6. About the whole debate of how much a gap to take between day 1 and 2.
    In my point of view one day’s gap is enough to rest after the 1st day to
    refresh and then go for day 2. Most people who had a week’s gap or more
    complained about not getting themselves to study because of the stress
    they had after 1st day.
    7. 2nd day is mostly management questions straight out of uworld and in a
    major chunk of them you will be stuck in the two choices just pick one
    that you think is best and move forward. You don’t have the luxury of
    time in real exam to ponder over it for a while.
    8. Last but not the least, sleep well, keep yourself hydrated and eat/drink
    something in every break. On 2nd day you can take all the break in MCQs
    because CCS cases will finish early and the time left will keep on adding
    to your break.

    Let me know if I can be of any help. Remember me in your prayers.

    M. Anwar ul haq. M.D.

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