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stardust (水晶) 于 (Wed Aug 18 09:38:53 2010, 美东) 提到:
Test Center:
Houston - very nice center, all the SPs are very nice, no accent! Highly recommend!
Study materials:
FA - practiced all the cases 2-3 times. I tried to follow FA for history taking, but I never pushed myself to cover all the questions because it is impossible and it is too much time consuming. I classified the questions to the following categories:
ing questions which will be asked for all the cases, questions associated with chief complain, questions associated with each different differential diagnosis. After doing that, I found it was very easy to remember the questions. I always forgave mys
or forgetting 2-5 questions in each case because I don't think it is necessary, and surprisingly, I got a star for information gathering and my questioning skills was rated high.
UW - can help you find the best way to ask questions because there are sample questions available, their physical exam videos are good too. There are something inappropriate in the videos, foe example, they always say GOOD, EXCELLENT during PE, but
re not supposed to say anything judgmental during history taking and PE.
Kaplan complex case book - I bought the Kindle version and read a few cases in it.
Neeraj's note is very good - some cases in it are very important.
the following links are good too:
http://www.prep4usmle.com/forum/thread/71110/
http://csprotocol.blogspot.com/2007/12/usmle-step-2-cs-study-plan-for.html
Study partners:
3 partners, from Iran, Japan and China each. They are very nice, smart and well prepared exam taker. Very very helpful. I found 2 of them from Kaplan 5 day training class, one from USMLE forum. I practiced with them in English so much that I even s
in English in my dreams during that time.
I feel that if you do your best to treat the SPs nicely, you will have more chance to pass. At knowledge side, I don't think I was ready, but I did my best to making SPs comfortable and relax, and to show my respect and care. another thing is that
n't have to take the PE too seriously, but shouldn't let SPs feel you are faking the PE. Why am I thinking about this? Because one of my study partner, she managed to covered almost all the questions and PE in FA on time during our practicing and her
ish is better than mine, but she failed. I guess she spoked too fast which gave SPs pressure, she did PE obviously not real, and she was too serious and forgot smile. Another study partner, she is super nice, charming and knowledgeable (got 99 for CK
ady), and she passed easily.
The following links can help you find CS live partners:
http://www.usmleforum.com/forum/index.php?forum=3&Page=2
http://www.usmlebuddies.com/
Preparation time:
About 1 month (full-time). I feel if we can get familiar with CK, then, go for CS, the necessary preparation time will be much shorter.
Training class:
Very helpful. Helped me avoid basic but fatal mistakes.
Mistakes I made:
Jumped into the CS preparation right after my step 1 exam, did not get refreshed, so that most of the time I was just sleepy and stupid.
Still trying to remember the differential diagnosis the night before the exam until very late, which made me very tired next day and made lots of mistakes. Really bad feeling!
I forgot consulting the pt about her heavy drinking, forgot pulling out the foot extensor of the examming table a lot times, forgot filling out the differential workups of one case, did not close one case on time, I forgot what was the chief compla
the SP after history taking (actually his CC was atypical, maybe, that is why I forgot is), I forgot which side was positive Babinski sign ...(You can tell that I should be a patient instead of a doctor at that time!)
The mistakes I made really scared me during last month and the PASS make me so relieved now!
About how long we have to wait to get the CS results:
It is different from the step 1 and step 2 CK for which usually we will get results in a few weeks or something. For CS, they report the results periodically, so that you can see that some persons waited 3 months and others just waited 1 month to g
eir result. For detail, please see the following link:
http://www.usmle.org/examinations/step2/step2cs_reporting.html
I have to thank all the friends I made from the group study. Thank you for your excellent suggestions and your support! I also have to thank the exam takers I met in the hotel in Houston, thank you so much for you suggestions to a stranger -me! Wit
your help, I could not have passed it.
Good luck to you all! Hopefully, we all will reach our goals, sooner or later!
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goodgene (pokemon) 于 (Wed Aug 18 09:44:33 2010, 美东) 提到:
me too, so happy.
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daisyy (Daisy) 于 (Wed Aug 18 09:49:52 2010, 美东) 提到:
恭喜恭喜
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MD11 (天道酬勤) 于 (Wed Aug 18 10:00:32 2010, 美东) 提到:
Congratulations!
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add789 (*-*) 于 (Wed Aug 18 10:28:40 2010, 美东) 提到:
Big big cong! :)
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stardust (水晶) 于 (Wed Aug 18 10:32:08 2010, 美东) 提到:
shake hands and hug!
How will you cerebrate it?
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dengluka (hello) 于 (Wed Aug 18 10:35:05 2010, 美东) 提到:
Me too. Unbelievable! I almost wanted to kill myself right after the exam b/
c I thought I would fail ICE. It turned out that ICE and CIS are even high
performance. Unbelievable!
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stardust (水晶) 于 (Wed Aug 18 10:36:56 2010, 美东) 提到:
Thank daisy, MD11 & add789!
thank add789 for your suggestions and good luck to your observership
searching! I am having the same problem here, I think if we have faith in
ourselves, we can finially reach our goals!
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stardust (水晶) 于 (Wed Aug 18 10:40:44 2010, 美东) 提到:
My patient note part reached the boarderline, I guess my handwriting was
just terrible.
anyway, we passed! Big con to you!
b/
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goodgene (pokemon) 于 (Wed Aug 18 10:49:07 2010, 美东) 提到:
hughug! good question. gift? will discuss with my hubby after he wakes up. :
) how about you?
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nn928 (baoma) 于 (Wed Aug 18 10:49:59 2010, 美东) 提到:
Here passed.
Cheers!
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daisyy (Daisy) 于 (Wed Aug 18 10:53:26 2010, 美东) 提到:
谢谢分享经验。记得找学历翻译也是看的stardust的帖子后找的最佳翻译，很不错，便
宜又快。
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stardust (水晶) 于 (Wed Aug 18 10:55:45 2010, 美东) 提到:
I will go to watch a 3D IMAX movie with my baby girl and visit one of my CS
study partner this week.
The whole study thing make me don't know how to have fun! I need some ideas
from you and anybody else!
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stardust (水晶) 于 (Wed Aug 18 10:57:17 2010, 美东) 提到:
Wow! cong! Cheers!
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goodgene (pokemon) 于 (Wed Aug 18 11:01:15 2010, 美东) 提到:
hughug, baoma! congratulations!!
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xlvivian (Match2011) 于 (Wed Aug 18 11:02:53 2010, 美东) 提到:
Congratulations!
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goodgene (pokemon) 于 (Wed Aug 18 11:03:26 2010, 美东) 提到:
that's great!! i watched 3D toy story on my daughter's 5th birthday. will
see what to do next. :)
congratulations for your great achievement!!
best of luck to the next!!
CS
ideas
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youjumpijump (麦地跳跳) 于 (Wed Aug 18 11:17:00 2010, 美东) 提到:
天道酬勤, 能这么短时间解决战斗真不容易, 预祝CK再打一个大胜仗
So happy for you.
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tele9999 (tele) 于 (Wed Aug 18 11:21:25 2010, 美东) 提到:
Congradulations dear!
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daisyy (Daisy) 于 (Wed Aug 18 11:27:45 2010, 美东) 提到:
Go to beach, stay 2-3 nights, and relax.
CS
ideas
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stardust (水晶) 于 (Wed Aug 18 11:33:29 2010, 美东) 提到:
Thank you daisy, xlvivian, youjumpijump and tele9999! You are so sweet!
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rbrlsr (lao zhang) 于 (Wed Aug 18 17:30:30 2010, 美东) 提到:
thank you for all your help. CONGRATULATIONS!! i will try it soon.
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rbrlsr (lao zhang) 于 (Wed Aug 18 17:33:10 2010, 美东) 提到:
Thank you for all your previous help. CONGRATULATIONS!!
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stardust (水晶) 于 (Wed Aug 18 18:05:03 2010, 美东) 提到:
Thank you and good luck!
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SUMO2009 (SUMO) 于 (Wed Aug 18 18:38:28 2010, 美东) 提到:
收藏了，感谢分享
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lovelypony (lovelypony) 于 (Wed Aug 18 18:54:49 2010, 美东) 提到:
congrats!!!!!!!!
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pqq (pqq) 于 (Wed Aug 18 20:55:40 2010, 美东) 提到:
Hi Stardust. Congratulations! I'm preparing CS now. Where and how can I get
UW and Neeraj's note for CS? Do you have hardcopies or download links of
them? Could you please send them to me? Thanks!
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lvboard2010 (sillymd) 于 (Wed Aug 18 21:04:26 2010, 美东) 提到:
Big Congratulation!
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stardust (水晶) 于 (Wed Aug 18 21:08:10 2010, 美东) 提到:
thank you pqq. About the study materials, I don't think I need to send the
Neeraj's note to you because you can easily google and find it. I paied for
all the other materials, but I think you can try to find and download them
online!
Good luck!
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stardust (水晶) 于 (Wed Aug 18 21:09:48 2010, 美东) 提到:
Thank you lovelypony and sillymd.
Big congratulations to pony too! You always stay really cool!
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lovelypony (lovelypony) 于 (Wed Aug 18 21:21:47 2010, 美东) 提到:
多谢啦。本来琢磨着要不要写考经呢，一看你都代劳了，就偷懒了，呵呵。
congrats again!!
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stardust (水晶) 于 (Wed Aug 18 21:30:59 2010, 美东) 提到:
别介, 我这不是抛砖引玉吗?
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nn928 (baoma) 于 (Thu Aug 19 17:36:07 2010, 美东) 提到:
昨天也庆祝了一下， 在外面措了一顿。
老公可是够狠的， 说了句， 这下你能考STEP 3 了， 真把人当“孺子牛”使啊。
我的报稿， ICE 和SEP 都没TOUCH 到 BORDERLINE 。
但CIS 有一项挺差的， 是INFORMATION SHARING SKILL, 这是说哪方面得罪了病人？
请明白人指点。
我也是在HOUSTON 考的， 病人的话有些没懂， 但不敢问那， 都装听懂了， 有个
DIARREA 的， 我问有没有TRAVEL, 他说了个国家， 我没听出来，然后问在那里是不是
有人也得DIARRHEA, 他说'OF COURSE, THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE SICK IN XXX" ,
我就 在NOTE 上就写了个 “ACKNOWLEDGE OF ILL CONTACT".
还有个病人回答我一天吸几包烟， 我也没听懂， 在NOTE 上胡乱写了个1包每天。
我在考试时， 连CERVICAL 都望了， 写的DIAGNOSIS 都是NECK XXX 的， 当时写NECK
时就觉得很便扭， 但硬是没想起来"CERVICAL" , 结果 PATIENT NOTE 分还挺高。
我觉得主要还是对病人的态度太重要了。 说话要清楚。 有些问题不知道咋问， 问问
美国人， 千万不要为了刨根问底的PUSH, 或OFFEND 病人。
病人对你的印像起决定性作用， PHYSICIAN 打分， 我感觉挺松的， 像我这种”NECK
XXX " 都能接受。
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pqq (pqq) 于 (Thu Aug 19 20:06:59 2010, 美东) 提到:
Hi Stardust, thanks for your response. How many pages do Neeraj's note have?
I found one but only had ~ 20pages. It is right?
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tommyding (Tommy) 于 (Thu Aug 19 20:21:57 2010, 美东) 提到:
http://www.mitbbs.com/bbsann2/scitech.faq/MedicalCareer/USMLE/23/20/M.1214269918.10/Njeer+Notes+for+Step2+CS
have?
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stardust (水晶) 于 (Thu Aug 19 20:38:22 2010, 美东) 提到:
Thank you so much Tommy!
Actually, I did not know where was the note from because my husband found it for me. Yes, my version was 44 page long and it should be the same one provided by the link. It is a little long, but I think the cases in it are very
important.
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pqq (pqq) 于 (Sat Aug 21 09:27:01 2010, 美东) 提到:
Thanks so much Tommy and Stardust!
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usmle123456 (Judy) 于 (Sat Aug 21 12:26:22 2010, 美东) 提到:
Big cong!
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stardust (水晶) 于 (Sat Aug 21 13:59:40 2010, 美东) 提到:
Thanks!
by the way, i updated the priginal post a little and I really want to help.
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md2008 (md) 于 (Sat Aug 21 22:01:16 2010, 美东) 提到:
congratulations
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aemon (麦地小核桃) 于 (Sat Aug 21 23:34:30 2010, 美东) 提到:
congratulations!! |
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