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afib123
Hey guys,
I am a third year medical student and just wanted to share my experience on a new product for the wards called Amboss. Some of you might have heard of it and some not.
A quick background, I scored 250+ on my STEP 1 and scored high scores on the NBME exams the first 2 years. The first 2 years had good resources in Pathoma, Sketchy, Uworld, etc but I felt third year was pretty lacking in high yield comprehensive resources except for Online Med Ed and Uworld. I thought case files and pre-test really did not help me on my first 2 shelf exams. But what did help was amboss, so wanted to share my opinion on that.
I used this for my neurology and psych shelf and want to say it is the best question bank out there at least for my neurology and psych shelves. I scored 90+ percentiles on both the neuro and psych shelves and have to attribute my high scores to the Amboss Q Bank.
Uworld Qbank was nice but was frankly pretty underwhelming when it came to these shelves. There were lot of questions that I was able to get right on my shelf exams because of Amboss that Uworld did not cover. Amboss qbank was extremely comprehensive for these two shelf exams and somehow was able to better predict the kind of questions that would come up on the shelf exams.
It was also immensely helpful for my OSCE because of the practice cases they had. If someone is struggling on shelves, I think this is a great question bank to check out.
OME and Uworld were helpful in addition to Amboss, but the other resources people talked about like Blueprints, Case Files, Pre-Test was extremely low yield for me.
If you want to try it out, you can get a free 2 week trial with this code:
code: AMBOSS-XWRG-0PQH-KTC9
Can be redeemed here: go.amboss.com/now
Disclaimer: I am working with Amboss but I am not getting paid for this review. I am working with them as an ambassador from my school and getting a couple months of free subscription but that’s about it. I am also not being forced to write this review. I am genuinely writing it because it has helped me immensely on my shelf exam.
I am a third year medical student and just wanted to share my experience on a new product for the wards called Amboss. Some of you might have heard of it and some not.
A quick background, I scored 250+ on my STEP 1 and scored high scores on the NBME exams the first 2 years. The first 2 years had good resources in Pathoma, Sketchy, Uworld, etc but I felt third year was pretty lacking in high yield comprehensive resources except for Online Med Ed and Uworld. I thought case files and pre-test really did not help me on my first 2 shelf exams. But what did help was amboss, so wanted to share my opinion on that.
I used this for my neurology and psych shelf and want to say it is the best question bank out there at least for my neurology and psych shelves. I scored 90+ percentiles on both the neuro and psych shelves and have to attribute my high scores to the Amboss Q Bank.
Uworld Qbank was nice but was frankly pretty underwhelming when it came to these shelves. There were lot of questions that I was able to get right on my shelf exams because of Amboss that Uworld did not cover. Amboss qbank was extremely comprehensive for these two shelf exams and somehow was able to better predict the kind of questions that would come up on the shelf exams.
It was also immensely helpful for my OSCE because of the practice cases they had. If someone is struggling on shelves, I think this is a great question bank to check out.
OME and Uworld were helpful in addition to Amboss, but the other resources people talked about like Blueprints, Case Files, Pre-Test was extremely low yield for me.
If you want to try it out, you can get a free 2 week trial with this code:
code: AMBOSS-XWRG-0PQH-KTC9
Can be redeemed here: go.amboss.com/now
Disclaimer: I am working with Amboss but I am not getting paid for this review. I am working with them as an ambassador from my school and getting a couple months of free subscription but that’s about it. I am also not being forced to write this review. I am genuinely writing it because it has helped me immensely on my shelf exam.