Step 1 Step 1 Step 2 ck (clinical knowledge)

Step 1

• Step 1

• Step 2

• CK (clinical knowledge)
• CS (clinical skills)

• Step 3

Subjects

• Subjects

• Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Pharmacology, Behavioral sciences, Pathology, Microbiology.

• Avg. time required to prepare

• 8- 12H/day, 6 days a week for 5-12M, try to be consistent

• Fee

• 740$+140$ (International Test Delivery surcharges) =880$

• Test centers

• Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi

Date of exam

• Date of exam

• Every Wednesday, Thursday throughout the year

• Exam format

• Computer based exam
• Total exam time
• 8H (1 day exam)
• Tutorial
• 15 min
• Total no. of MCQs
• 336

Total no of blocks

• Total no of blocks
• 7 (each block contains 48 MCQs and lasts 1H. Beginning May 15, 2010 total no of questions in each block will be reduced to 46)
• Time for break
• 45 min, you can take breaks between any 2 blocks but not within a block.

Subjects

• Subjects

• Medicine, Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Psychiatry

• Avg. time required to prepare

• 8-12H/day, 6 days a week for 4-8M

• Fee

• 740$+155$=895$

• Test centers

• Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi

Date of exam

• Date of exam

• Every Wednesday, Thursday throughout the year

• Exam format

• Computer based exam
• Total exam time
• 9H (1 day exam)
• Total no of MCQs
• 352
• Total no of blocks
• 8 (each lasts 1H and contains 44 MCQs)

Subjects tested

• Subjects tested

• Same as step 2 CK

• Avg. time required to prepare

• 6-8H/day for about 1 Month

• Fee

• 1295$

• Test centers

• Philadelphia, PA. Houston, TX. Chicago, IL. Atlanta, GA. Los Angeles, CA.

Date of exam

• Date of exam

• Every day except Saturday and Sunday throughout the year

• Exam Format

• Involves direct patient encounters
• Total exam time
• 8H (1 day exam)
• Total no of stations
• 12
• Time available at each station
• 25 min, you are required to take history, do physical examination, determine differential diagnosis and then write down notes of 12 Simulated patients (SPs)

Subjects

• Subjects

• Same to Step 2 CK

• Avg. time required to prepare

• 6-8 H/day for 1-2M

• Total exam time

• 16 H (2 day exam)

• Fee

• 705$

• Test centers

• all over USA and only in USA

• Date of exam

• Everyday including Saturday and Sunday

Take decision before graduation

• Take decision before graduation

• Start preparation after the result of final professional

• Buy books

• Dictionaries
• Kaplan Lecture notes
• MCQs books like “USMLE World for step 1” and “Q bank for step 1”
• First Aid for step 1

First reading;

• First reading;

• Just read and try to understand Kaplan Lecture notes, don’t try to memorize
• Use dictionaries aggressively
• Start with physiology
• Listen to Kaplan lecture notes DVDs specially Genetics and Behavioral sciences.

• Second reading;

• Try to memorize Kaplan lecture notes now
• Add MCQs books like USMLE WORLD (UW) series and Q BANK series (Boosters).
• Read pathology immediately after physiology

Third reading;

• Third reading;

• Read Kaplan lecture notes again and add First Aid (you would start making your own questions).

• Take practice tests

• Kaplan test (available on CD)
• excellent test to check your speed
• NBME practice test (Buy on the internet)
• correlates very strongly with USMLE score

• It’s time to go for exam….

Before graduation or after graduation!

• Before graduation or after graduation!

• Before house job, after house job or along With house job!

• I want to get experience certificate
• The Knowledge I gain will help me in USMLE
• I am not that strong financially

Use multiple ways to learn knowledge (read books, use dictionaries, listen to class lectures, write down notes, listen to Kaplan DVDs, put notes on the walls)

• Use multiple ways to learn knowledge (read books, use dictionaries, listen to class lectures, write down notes, listen to Kaplan DVDs, put notes on the walls)

Duration from graduation (less than 5 years)

• Duration from graduation (less than 5 years)

• US Clinical Experience (electives, research and observer ship)

• Letter of Recommendations (LORs) preferably from American teachers

• Time of USMLE certification

• Others (how did you utilize your time between graduation and application, performance at the day of interview)

We all have brains; we just need to use our brains in the right way.

• We all have brains; we just need to use our brains in the right way.

http://ecfmg.org/

• http://ecfmg.org/

• http://www.usmle.org/