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It’s Over

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That's all I can say about my USMLE Step I exam experience: It's Over. I knew some without looking at the question, I knew I should have known some, and I had no idea what they were talking about on some of them. Of the latter, I just hope they were among the 50 "experimental questions" and not among the 300 questions that were scored.

I took the exam on July 20th, and there is nothing to do now but wait a nebulous "4 to 6 weeks" for my score report to see if I was able to cram enough useless information in my brain over the last two years to satisfy the National Board of Medical Examiners. I call a lot of the information useless because no practicing physician knows half of it (I know, I asked!). They say you really learn medicine in the clinical years by doing. I'm definitely looking forward to this, provided I passed that minor roadblock on the way.

Posting should pick up again soon. I spent the last week on Lake George camping without internet access (hence the delay in posting), but I have a few shifts scheduled in the hospital ED and on the ambulance over the next few weeks to provide me with at least some fodder for this blog.

posted by Carsten
July 27, 2006 @ 4:44 pm

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