This should be treated as the most important month of your life. Make sure you schedule a month off before the exam.
It is probably best to take the exam within 3-6 months of finishing your core clinical rotations. Third, make the USMLE® Step 2 CK or COMLEX® Step 2 a priority. When you finally get a day off, devote a portion of your free time to review your notes. In other words, keep going over what you have learned previously, particularly the questions you missed. Second, every night before you go to bed, or when you are waiting for the attending to round, spend a minimum of 30 minutes doing random practice questions on the prior rotations you have completed and missed. By the end of your 3rd year of training, you should have several hundred pages of facts that need to be reviewed before the USMLE® Step 2 CK or COMLEX® Step 2. I also recommend completing the NBME®️ or NBOME®️ Self-Assessment towards the end of the rotation. I mentor my students in a three-fold study approach.įirst, during each of the big five (medicine, pediatrics, surgery, psychiatry, and obstetrics/gynecology), I recommend spending a minimum of one hour a day doing practice questions every single day of the rotation, always marking any question you missed. I believe the best students start preparing on day 1 of their first clinical rotation. It is unnecessary how much time you devote, but how you devote the limited time you have to prepare. The simple reality is you are really at the beginning of a long journey, and how you prepare for USMLE® Step 2 CK or COMLEX® Step 2 and USMLE® 3 or COMLEX® Step 3 may very well set the stage for selecting your residency training specialty of choice, getting into the best training program, and most importantly successfully becoming an outstanding clinician.Īfter mentoring a little over 500 medical students, plus making a lot of mistakes along the way myself, I think over time and experience, I have learned what it takes to achieve the top score on USMLE® or COMLEX® exams, and in particular, USMLE® Step 2 CK or COMLEX® Step 2. So you just finished the first two years of medical school and aced the USMLE® or COMLEX® Step 1. Sarosh Vaqar, MD Hospitalist, Clinical Volunteer Teaching Faculty, and Medical Student Mentor
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