Hi.
Do you think that it's possible to match nowadays with a 6 weeks USCE and a single LOR from a community hospital? What stuff on CV should I work on more apart from publications and step 2 score?
Hey.
So I've graduated med school in the last year (non-US IMG), the only basic medical science that remained with me was the least enough to understand clinical medicine. I hate reading books, so I started my prep in June 2025 by directly going to UWorld and solving questions \ reading explanations. I love SketchyMedical a lot, I heavily used it next to pixorize, they both helped me retain a lot of concepts. Then I used Anking just to go over FA in a cards fashion rather than reading a book, didn't commit to revise cards, just wanted to view them once and that's it. Later, I continued uworld until i finished 80% , finished all ethics and biostats and some systems remained behind. I didn't revise the last 10 blocks because I got super bored, just solved them quickly.
Didn't read pathoma (Don't recommend to skip it tho), last time i watched Bnb was 3 years ago, didn't watch or use bootcamp.
The gem that I had better than all of these IMO was AI (Gemini Pro), I would ask it anything I had in mind and it'd amazingly explain it.
Started doing NBMEs 4 weeks before the exam
NBME 29: 77%, 30: 85.5%, 31: 84.5%, 32: 81%
Didn't do 33 for tight time
Free 120 was 81%
Last 3 days I revised some sketches and concepts that I felt I was weak in from FA (This was very helpful for me)
Tried to sleep at 12 AM but my brain anxiety went supernova and I didn't sleep except ~30 minutes. Went to the exam with a jackass headache. I made sure to compensate for that with snacks and water, didn't drink coffee at all.
The exam was good in general, experimental questions were kinda obvious, the average length of questions was shorter than expected. Flagged about 17-23 questions per block and finished each block before the time by 5 minutes.
I was apathetic after the exam until the few hours before the results came out because of the huge amount of burnout I put myself in for no justified reason.