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Anyone have any tips for the OB shelf? How are the questions compared to those in Blueprints and the Pretest? How many questions are on the exam? Anything else I should know about?
JulianCrane said:I have the Pretest. Any thoughts on those that took it? What's passing on this exam anyway?
JulianCrane said:I have the Pretest. Any thoughts on those that took it? What's passing on this exam anyway?
JulianCrane said:I have the Pretest. Any thoughts on those that took it? What's passing on this exam anyway?
katrinadams9 said:At our school we were told a 58% is passing and a 78% is honors for the test.
People who honored the shelf: was this your first rotation? It is my first and I'm just wondering what the likelihood of honoring it is considering I have no idea what to expect from this exam.
sleepymed said:I started my Ob rotation about a week ago, and unlike most people, I'm enjoying it. It's def. not what I want to do with my life, but I'm liking it much much more than I expected to.
I was wondering how much detail the shelf went into drugs and dosage, etc.
thanks
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sleepymed said:I started my Ob rotation about a week ago, and unlike most people, I'm enjoying it. It's def. not what I want to do with my life, but I'm liking it much much more than I expected to.
I was wondering how much detail the shelf went into drugs and dosage, etc.
thanks
sm
So, I took the shelf today and yup, it was NOT cool. . . what's passing on this thing anyway?
Pretest is off the mark for OB/Gyn. There are chapters that are flat out useless in terms of the shelf (ie the one on ultrasound). I'd recommend the questions at the end of blueprints, or if your institution has access to the ACOG practice questions as mine does, those questions are dead on.
Are you guys reading CASE FILES??? ALL THE QUESTIONS IN CASE FILES ARE "next step", "diagnosis", "treatment", and every case in case files pops up on the test in some fashion. Am I wrong here?
OB/GYN was my first rotation. I just took the shelf about 2 months ago. Coming out of the shelf, just as many people have said... CASE FILES is the way to go. I started reading blueprints, but pressed for time, i switched to Case Files and got thru it twice. For me, blueprints is just too dense and wordy that by the time i finish the chapter, go onto the next one, i forgot what i read in the first. I just found it too hard to remember the management from there while Case Files does an excellent job of that.
Digging up an old thread instead of starting a new one...
Has anyone used the uWise questions on the APGO website?
How do those hold up the shelf?
As well, do those that recently took still it feel that blueprints was good? If not what else?
Has anyone used the uWise questions on the APGO website?
How do those hold up the shelf?
As well, do those that recently took still it feel that blueprints was good? If not what else?
I thought the uWise questions were alright at the time, but now that I have taken the shelf I realize they are garbage. I liken them to QBank for the Step 1: they test way too much detail, and are not at all like the actual shelf. I relied way too much on them and I am pretty sure it burned me in the end. Beware.
So are you saying the shelf has easier questions? I'm not quite sure I'm pickin' up what your layin' down.
This was an Evil EVIL shelf... I took it about a week ago, and neither USMLEWorld, nor CaseFiles, nor Qbook really helped me much. Maybe its just me, but I went into there feeling I at least somewhat knew the material, and still ended up second guessing myself alot. I have yet to receive my score so I really cant say how well I actually did, but by the look of things, Im not feeling too good...