Every single card is made from me. I’d use it to study your weakest subjects first, so if you’re weakest in cardio, study the cardio questions first, then move on to your next weakest subject. The cards are divided by subject so you can easily do this!

Alec

The cards are organized by system (e.g. cardio, pulm, biochem, genetics micro, etc.). The best way to approach them given your NBME scores would be to go subject-specific, since you need to hit your weakest topics first, since that is where the most points will be. 12 weeks to improve by 50-60 points is a pretty steep task – the key will be to optimize your learning and how you are spending your time!

I am an IMG and took an NBME 15 over 2 weeks ago, scored a 180 in step 1 score scale. I got anki but did make a lot of the mistakes you mentioned in one of your posts. I was thinking of getting your cards due to the fact that i dont want to waste so much time making cards of my own. I was wondering if in your deck do you have a deck with random cards (not only of organ systems and general principles)? which way do you think is the most effective to review anki cards, organ system specific or random? Also does your deck contain images and diagrams, i do find that that helps me learn things better and they stick better. I plan in take the exam in a little over 12 weeks and ideally would like to score high 230s- 240. i believe i have enough time if i properly strategize myself, although i was told otherwise. what do you suggest me to do?? PLEASE HELP im finsihing up biochem in kaplan this week and have left covering neuroanatomy and as well as biostats

Thanks for the suggestion! Will look at that for a future post!

It’s been all over the news – I’d just keep my eyes open for medical things that are showing up.

I read up on Zika just now on the CDC. Before you mentioned it I’d never heard of it. It seems like it produces not too serious of a condition. But apparently and PAHO and the WHO have Declared it to be some something serious. I guess that’s where it gets its USMLE relevance.
I can see on the CDC website there are parts that discuss relevant emergent infectious diseases. But what kind of resources do you use to keep up to date when it comes to these kind of things?

Anything really is fair game, but that probably doesn’t help you a ton to say. No one knows for sure, but my guess is that things showing up in the news like Zika have a fair chance of showing up on the test in the next couple years, as I remember when West Nile started to be a thing on the news it showed up on the exam over the next couple years.