Comments on: From 136 to Step 1 247: Conquer Memorization for Impressive Boards Scores https://www.yousmle.com/overcome-low-nbme-step-1/ Mastery - Not Memorization - For Impressive USMLEs Fri, 24 Jul 2020 18:15:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 By: Alec Palmerton, MD https://www.yousmle.com/overcome-low-nbme-step-1/#comment-2217 Fri, 24 Jul 2020 18:15:28 +0000 https://www.yousmle.com/?p=5564#comment-2217 In reply to Jay.

Hi Jay,

Thanks for your honest sharing of your experiences. You are very frustrated by feeling like the US has designed a system to keep it at the top, despite US med schools churning out doctors that aren’t providing optimal care to your family. You lack any faith in the healthcare system here. I can only imagine how hard that must be – I’m sorry to hear that.

Alec

]]> By: Jay https://www.yousmle.com/overcome-low-nbme-step-1/#comment-2215 Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:06:23 +0000 https://www.yousmle.com/?p=5564#comment-2215 If you look at Uworld questions today, you will notice that you rarely get a block where over 50% of the exam takers got over 70% of the questions right. The average correct per question is around 55%. These exams were never about a knowledge. They are trying to confuse you in order to infulence a scale that keeps the US superior regardless of US medical school performance. Years later, I am still toe to toe with current medical students in prep for their steps. I haven’t even started studying. I wasted the final 3 years of my mothers life studying over 12 hours a day, trying to pass a stupid NBME. My score never went up more than a point no matter how well I did in practice. All the while, my family is getting ill and I am watching residents make horrible USMLE tested mistakes with both my mother’s and my brothers care. I do not regret my international education but I have absolutely no faith in the American healthcare.

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