I finished up MS1 year last week. Right now I'm doing a research project but there is a gap as we are submitting so I'm really just hanging out at home doing nothing. During the year I was consistently an above average student sitting mostly in the top 30%-40% of my class and occasionally breaking into the top 20%. obviously I would have liked to be top 20% all the time but my grades reflect my effort for the most part.
Except for one unit. we are on a organ block schedule and I bombed GI. borderline failing exam grade and well below average for the unit overall (helped by a strong anatomy grade). I felt I worked hard enough on this unit but my studying was obviously not efficient or high yield. I thought my grade may have been low because I only used outside resources for the first time so I could have missed a lot of school specific q's. However, we had an end of the year NBME exam and once again GI was below the overall average and well below my other subjects.
I know studying for step 1 over summer is low yield and burnout risk is high but I don't want to start MS2 and step 1 prep with a clearly deficient subject. what are somethings i could do now to fix my knowledge gap? zanki/bros GI section? FA + USLME-Rx? class notes?
Thanks in advance for any advice
Except for one unit. we are on a organ block schedule and I bombed GI. borderline failing exam grade and well below average for the unit overall (helped by a strong anatomy grade). I felt I worked hard enough on this unit but my studying was obviously not efficient or high yield. I thought my grade may have been low because I only used outside resources for the first time so I could have missed a lot of school specific q's. However, we had an end of the year NBME exam and once again GI was below the overall average and well below my other subjects.
I know studying for step 1 over summer is low yield and burnout risk is high but I don't want to start MS2 and step 1 prep with a clearly deficient subject. what are somethings i could do now to fix my knowledge gap? zanki/bros GI section? FA + USLME-Rx? class notes?
Thanks in advance for any advice