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For anyone who did very well on this shelf, in addition to uworld and nbme exams, which question bank should I do if I wanted to do more questions?
MD Honoring OBGYN shelf :Uwise vs amboss
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Personally, i did well on this shelf with only NBME and UW. I'm not sure how long your rotation is but mine was only 4wks and I felt that those resources were adequate.
from my classmates, some really felt the APGO/Uwise stuff was decent as well for this shelf.
My experience with amboss, is their questions are unreasonably difficult and reflective of the actual shelf. I literally only do those if I REALLY want some extra Qs to go over.
from my classmates, some really felt the APGO/Uwise stuff was decent as well for this shelf.
My experience with amboss, is their questions are unreasonably difficult and reflective of the actual shelf. I literally only do those if I REALLY want some extra Qs to go over.
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The OBGYN shelf is pretty doable. Along with psych and maybe neuro, it's one of the few specialties where you can actually have a pretty decent handle on all the material tested on the shelf by the end of a clerkship. On medicine, surgery, peds, FM, and EM, you rely pretty heavily on connecting the dots based on basic principles and getting questions based on randomly remembering some detail from either the wards or a single question you did (maybe even as far back as M2/step 1 stuff). On OBGYN you can legitimately go through all major concepts 2-3 times prior to the shelf.
IMO, UWise was worthwhile. I didn't do the whole thing, but being split into topics was super helpful as that's just far more effective teaching for building a framework of understanding compared to randomly doing UWorld blocks. It's also fast. The explanations are concise and you can easily burn through 100+ questions on a day off. I did UWorld and about 1/2 of UWise and make ankis from incorrects or from concepts I didn't know as I was reading the question. I also did the Emma Holiday and Divine reviews the day before, which definitely got me 3-4 questions I otherwise wouldn't have on test day. Scored ~95th percentile.
IMO, UWise was worthwhile. I didn't do the whole thing, but being split into topics was super helpful as that's just far more effective teaching for building a framework of understanding compared to randomly doing UWorld blocks. It's also fast. The explanations are concise and you can easily burn through 100+ questions on a day off. I did UWorld and about 1/2 of UWise and make ankis from incorrects or from concepts I didn't know as I was reading the question. I also did the Emma Holiday and Divine reviews the day before, which definitely got me 3-4 questions I otherwise wouldn't have on test day. Scored ~95th percentile.
