If you don’t want to make your own, then you need to make sure you find the best possible cards to use instead. The Online Course has a lot of cards based on vignettes, that can help especially if you are pressed for time and aren’t able to make your own cards.

Do you have any tips or recommended resources for mastering patient presentations as a medical student? I’m finding this to be a challenge in third year.

Thank you,
Colin

Great question – I’d recommend focusing mainly on UW questions, and studying based on the things that you are missing. As you point out, much of Step 2 CK/shelf exams involves question interpretation, even more than Step 1. As such, the key is to use the questions to fill gaps and to improve your question interpretation.

Thanks again for doing a testimonial – how has that been coming?

What do you recommend using as a primary source to generate Anki cards during clinical rotations? Should I mainly just base them on UW questions? Or should I make some based on something like case files or pretest?

Also, how do we know we’ve covered all the relevant topics for the shelf exams? Is going through UW for that rotation enough? I know the questions are more focused on interpretation and reasoning skills, but I know there will also be lots of new things to learn that I won’t know coming into the rotation.

Thanks!