Title. Are there typically still large cuts to cohort size once students make it past the preclinical years into the clinical years at Caribbean med schools (talking about the big 4 here)? Does the structure of grading, placements, etc, mirror USMD schools in the clinical years? How about things like CBSE before step 2 at Caribbean schools in the clinical years?
Do American med schools typically use OSCE's? If your did, were they strict with marking or did it count for much (for example could they hold you back a year if you failed the schools osce's)?
Title - im talking more about sit-down and studying similar to in med school.
I’m using Bootcamp for Step 1 prep with the tagged AnKing cards, and I’m noticing that some videos are literally 1.5-2 hours long, but after finishing the tagged cards, huge amounts of the content discussed in the videos are nowhere in AnKing at all.
And I don’t just mean tiny irrelevant details. Sometimes Bootcamp spends a decent amount of time on pathology descriptions, mechanisms, associations, histology findings, etc., and then the AnKing cards only test like 10-20% of it.
Example:
Bootcamp spends a while discussing Warthin tumor:
Meanwhile the AnKing card is basically:
“Is Warthin tumor benign or malignant?” → benign
My concern is:
I’m taking Step 1 many months from now, so I won’t remember the videos themselves long-term. I’m mainly relying on Anki to preserve what I learned from the videos.
So now I’m wondering:
I know Step 1 is pass/fail now, but I still don’t want to get blindsided by stuff that Bootcamp emphasized but AnKing barely covered.