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03:20
Alright guys,
thank you for that kind introduction.
03:23
Alright, so today oh,
I guess a little bit about me.
03:25
Alright, so I'm DocOssareh.
03:27
I'm a Neurologist.
03:29
I'm Vascular
Subspecialty trained.
03:31
And now I am officially two months
working as a full attending.
03:35
And let me tell
you it is heaven.
03:37
Just as a quick side note before
we start talking about USMLE today,
the last time we did this,
I was like the last
two days of fellowship.
03:45
Now I'm you know, been doing for two
and a half months as an attending.
03:48
And let me tell you,
the light at the end of the tunnel
is as bright as my current room.
03:53
It's just heaven.
03:54
You have a better schedule,
no one tells you what to do,
patients are thankful,
you have all this free time.
04:00
I've never had my whole life.
04:01
I don't even know what to do
with my free time right now.
04:04
I mean, I have a baby.
She fills it up.
04:05
But I mean, I'm just gonna tell you, the
light at the end of the tunnel is heaven.
04:09
So yeah, so me DocOssareh been
doing a lot of USMLE work.
04:14
Actually, I'm currently studying
for vascular neurology boards.
04:17
I'm already a board certified neurologist,
but let me tell you, Qbank never ends.
04:22
And that's pretty wild,
you know, like I'm,
you know, subspecialty
trained, working,
I've already lost all my hair
so young with all this stress.
04:29
And, you know,
I'm still studying.
04:31
And this just goes to say,
"Hey, this is so valuable."
That you know, Qbanking is life.
04:38
It's important as a, you know,
three USMLE step 1, 2, 3,
your specialty boards or general
boards, whatever you have,
and then even subspecialty
boards, Qbanking doesn't go away.
04:48
So this is kind of like the
roadmap to how to do a Qbank.
04:52
And I kind of liked the
analogy of the Qbank,
being like a roadmap,
because it's not that easy.
04:59
Until someone tells you
that it's so obvious.
05:02
I remember painfully during first
year and second year of med school
being so anxious and
nervous about USMLE step 1.
05:12
It was miserable.
05:14
And I say that like very
openly so you guys can,
you know, realize like
everyone's nervous and anxious.
05:18
No one's like walking around all
proud and sure of what they're doing.
05:22
I remember even the summer
before starting med school,
I thought first aid for
USMLE step one off Amazon,
because at the time, I was like, on
forums, forums were popular back then.
05:33
And I was just trying to figure out
like, how do you do med school
like, I didn't want to mess up.
05:37
And everyone talked about
first aid and USMLE step 1
and then I realized like,
oh, this thing is important.
05:42
Now it's pass fail,
things changed.
05:45
But back then it was like,
so paramount to get a good 3-digit score.
05:50
And even then I ordered the
book early up in Amazon,
I had no idea what it was, I mean,
I physically bought it and it caught us.
05:56
I never knew how to read,
I didn't know what I was doing.
05:58
But in the back of my head
was this persistent anxiety
of I have to do
well on this exam.
06:03
And I did not get much good
mentorship, unfortunately,
or like guidance on how to
study or how to use a Qbank.
06:10
And I even remember to this
day, it's like PTSD,
I was setting for step
1 and towards like,
the last week or two before the
exam, I opened up the Qbank,
because I did not know that early
that I needed to be doing Qbank.
06:24
The more questions you do
correlates with a better end result.
06:27
All these things you know,
I'm sharing with you,
so you realize wherever you are
in the path and you're training,
you can be like, "Hey, whenever I
can catch on to this, the better."
And hopefully,
everyone who's on it today
can catch on to
how to do a Qbank,
and you can drastically improve your
life if it's not already fantastic.
06:43
So I wanted to kind of
share that with you to know,
"Hey, I'm not special.
I'm not gifted.
06:48
I'm a normal person,
I had a hard time on step 1,
until I finally figured out Qbanking
just a week or two before the exam date.
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And boy, once I figured it
out, it was heaven."
Yeah, quick side question.
07:01
You know, it is step past
step 1 is not pass fail.
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And it is, I would argue,
as important as ever.
07:08
And this is the pain of it,
the content on step
1 never goes away.
07:14
When you take step
2, it's there.
07:16
When you take step
3, it's there.
07:17
I took general neurology boards,
it was there. It's insane.
07:22
So if you do not really master
the content from step 1 early,
you're kind of self-sabotaging.
07:30
This is one of my biggest fears
when the exam became pass fail.
07:33
I was hoping that would be announced
globally, it never really was.
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But if you do not put
in the effort on step 1,
step 2 or 3 and on are
just going to be painful,
because you're going to keep
missing points for no reason.
07:45
It's just carryover
content from step 1.
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So you know,
it does put more pressure on step 2
to comment on the
residency question,
but I'm going to tell you do your
best to just dominate the content.
07:56
It makes every other
subsequent step easier.
07:59
Okay.
08:03
Let's see it like this. Okay.
08:04
So question today, you know, the topic
is how do we effectively use a Qbank?
And you should really get used to
this format you see on the screen,
when I was making these slides,
and I saw this, I got PTSD.
08:16
It is so stressful when
I see a blue screen now.
08:19
Again, not stressed, like negative,
it's just you're so excited.
08:22
You spend so many months preparing, and you
know, game day comes up for several hours,
and you know, a screen well.
08:28
So when you see things like
this, I mean,
it just brings back so
many emotions for me
because it keeps reminding
me this has become
such a paramount part
of medical education.
08:38
So it's in our favor to
really dominate this,
because it's not going away.
08:42
And people love it.
It's an easy way to score people.
08:45
So you can't beat them,
learn the game so that you do win.
08:49
Alright, so when it comes to actual
USMLE question design step 1 exam.
08:55
So do the rest all use clinical vignettes
to assess your basic science knowledge.
09:00
And each question has
a very unique format.
09:03
So but the fun part is it's
largely clinical vignettes,
every now and then they'll
ask you a simple, you know,
biochem question
but those are rare.
09:09
The majority of the time they're
trying to make this physician like
and place it in the essence
of the clinical scenario.
09:17
So this is the format,
each question is going to have a
single patient centred vignette,
that means that I can be talking
about three patients at once,
just one patient at a time.
Easy.
09:28
And with every single question,
there is about 4 or more answer
choices that you can pick from.
09:33
So it's multiple choice.
09:35
There's no free typing nothing,
you just click a button.
09:38
And what you have
to do is important,
you have to be able to assess
the patient and the question,
and you have to maybe
interpret late lab data.
09:47
And you may not be I mean, you're not going
to be comfortable interpreting lab data.
09:51
I'm just going to say that so if you don't
feel comfortable, you don't feel weird,
but like they were showing you sodium
values and creatinine clearance
and I was like I'm just you know, I took
benzene rings and -- o Chem scuffle,
you know, semesters ago, it's
this, they show you a chest X ray,
but you don't know how
to read a chest X ray.
10:05
They're doing it on purpose,
to mess with you to put content
that's above your grade level
to push you and kind of
scare you and rattle you.
10:11
So you make an error.
10:13
But as you do more questions, you become
familiar with the tricks they're doing.
10:17
And then you don't get
distracted by that.
10:19
And they're going to show you
charts because for some reason,
USMLE test creators think the
more complex charts they put
then will only the smart kids
are going to figure it out.
10:28
It's ridiculous.
10:29
But you have to use again,
do more questions and start to realize
that the charts are
not hard to understand.
10:35
They just purposely make them
confusing to throw you off.
10:38
And only the people who
put in more questions
are going to go with
to figure it out.
10:42
And this is the key.
10:44
Each question for each clinical vignette
will have a single question being asked,
when I was an undergrad,
my general chemistry teacher told me
stop answering the question
that you want to answer,
answer the question being
asked by the question.
10:57
And that subtle comment, but what
she meant is sometimes answer choices
are going to be right
at first glance,
but when you go back to the question
stem and see what were they asking.
11:08
You realize it wasn't.
11:09
So you really have to pay attention
and see what is that question
that they're asking
so you answered.
11:14
And it's very common for
us to make that error.
11:16
So again, this is a key point.
11:19
People get burned on
this all the time.
11:21
When I do like private
coaching for step 1,
this always is in problem that the
test is trying to make use of like
the single best
answer to a question,
and why do we highlight best?
Because they do it on
purpose to mess with you.
11:34
More often than not what
more than one answer
will be correct or
partially correct.
11:39
And you're going to be tempted
to just click it and go.
11:42
But they do that on purpose again, because
if they don't make this challenging,
almost every point is
going to get a great score.
11:48
So they have to put in as
many tricks as they can.
11:51
Because the people taking
this test are pretty smart.
11:53
I mean, you guys are like pretty
brilliant to be at this level.
11:57
And so they do it to trick you.
11:58
So it's your job to always ask
yourself on every single question.
12:02
This is why I have PTSD when I
saw the blue screen on Qbank.
12:05
It's so much pressure
to keep asking yourself,
Is this the best answer?
Can I find anything else?
But oh, well,
you kind of get around that.
12:12
So push it and then
kind of go from there.
12:15
So that's a key thing memorize
the single best answer,
not the one you want to answer
what they're asking about.
12:22
So when it comes to into
attacking a question,
I have a non trademark
method that's completely
an acronym I wanted to just make for myself
called the DocOssareh Method, why not?
So it's just something
I came up with.
12:33
So everyone's gonna
have their own strategy.
12:35
And this one,
I kind of developed myself
with a little bit of
guidance from senior people.
12:39
When I was actually
taking step 2.
12:41
Step 1, I was on my own,
just scrapping it together.
12:44
Step 2, I started to realize, "Hey,
there's something going on here,
there's got to be an
algorithm I can follow."
So I kept asking around, and I took
little pieces of data, switch it together
with what I came up with,
and I developed this strategy.
12:56
So everyone's gonna have
a different strategy.
12:58
I want to share mine
and the logic behind it.
13:00
And maybe again,
you can do what I did
take some pieces of mine and
put it with what you like,
and have something that works.
13:06
So here's what I recommend,
as a simple strategy.
13:10
Look is a roadmap.
13:12
Number 1. Start by reading the last
sentence or two of the question.
13:17
And that is because you want to know
what is the question being asked.
13:21
Well, before you even
attack the question.
13:24
Often,
the stem can be like super long.
13:26
And there's going to be a bunch
of filler information in there,
again, to make you waste time on
reading it to drill down on the clock.
13:33
So don't just start from
the top and start reading.
13:35
That's the mistake that I
used it in the very beginning,
start with the last sentence
or last two sentences.
13:40
First is say, "Hey,
what are they asking me?"
Are they asking me what
medication should I give?
What's the best
pharmacological treatment?
Is there going to be a chart?
I have to know.
13:50
Is it about something
in biostatistics, etc,
you just kind of anchor yourself
on what am I looking for?
After you read the last
sentence, and you know,
what question is being asked,
then you actually look
at the answer choices.
14:02
Next, you quickly scan them,
just to get a sense again,
of what are they going to be asking
and what kind of
choices are available.
14:09
This just gives you a simple
again, kind of like framework
when you're about to
answer the question.
14:14
And at this point,
you actually able to be able to eliminate
a couple answer
choices this early.
14:20
Yeah, reading the last sentence
and scanning the answer choices.
14:22
You may be like,"Hey, I don't think
these even makes sense just from
what I'm even looking at
from a category perspective."
And then you may notice
other test taking strategies.
14:31
These are kind of
basic, but they work.
14:33
My roommate taught me these
when I'm studying for step 2.
14:35
Jason, thank you.
14:37
You know, if you notice
that two answers are pretty
but just kind of
worded differently.
14:42
Neither one can be accurate,
they cannot make it that close.
14:45
Or if the wording
is too similar.
14:47
You can automatically eliminate
so there's options we have here.
14:50
Now, then,
after you've read the last sentence,
scan the answers,
maybe eliminated something
then you go and actually read
the question stem carefully.
14:59
This is important.
15:01
Don't just skim it,
because that's where you missed questions.
15:03
So we read the last sentence,
we skim the answer choices,
put in the effort to read the question
stem one time, and one time only,
and read it thoughtfully
and carefully, quick.
15:14
Don't skim it and think
I could always come back,
going back is a time waste,
you cannot afford that time loss.
15:20
So read it carefully, once.
15:22
That's kind of a rule that I have.
And I think it works.
15:25
So you only have about a minute and
a half to read and answer a question.
15:29
So you need to
read it carefully.
15:31
But you know, efficiently,
you don't just sit there.
15:33
But that's the point,
you only have a minute and a half.
15:35
After you've read it and
looked at the answer choices,
you don't have time to go back
and read it again and try again,
there just isn't time.
15:42
So read it carefully,
one time move on.
15:44
And for some questions, you know, they
may have images, chest X rays, lab data.
15:49
And again, that's going to be time where
you have to look at that, interpret that,
go back to the vignette,
then pick an answer.
15:54
So these are all things that they do
to make the question more complex,
and again, eat at the time.
16:00
So after you write it again,
you look at the answer choices,
you may be able to eliminate
answer choices again,
and some just may not be like the
others, some are identical again, etc,
you can start eliminating.
16:11
Now, this is another
important point.
16:13
This is where having
done lots of question.
16:16
Question bank questions
comes in handy.
16:19
You start filtering the
wording of questions,
how they present data,
how they present charts,
there's only so
much they can do.
16:26
And after you've done
a Qbank more than once,
and you've done a lot of questions, you
know, 100, so you know, close low 1000s.
16:33
You are in the zone, you know
this, they can't trick you.
16:37
Because it's all you've been doing
and these are really familiar with it.
16:40
It's like when you sort of
binge watching your show.
16:43
Let's take for
example, Breaking Bad.
16:45
If you're watching the show, and episode
and episode after episode, go on,
you serve to kind of catch
here's the intro music theme,
they're going to show me this,
there's going to be some excitement,
there's going to be some kind of hang
at the end and then the next episode.
16:57
So you know,
hashtag Netflix examples.
17:01
Mr. White, thank you.
That's why I shaved my head. No.
17:04
But that's the point
I'm trying to make.
17:06
Anything in life when you
put in enough binge work,
you start to see the pattern,
same thing for Qbank,
binge it every single day,
and you will start to be
the one who says I know where it's
going, I caught the trend.
17:18
That is literally what the
people who get the top scores do.
17:21
They do it so many times that
they can know the trends better
without even really reading
the question sometimes.
17:28
Already. Now, since the question is being
asked and you scan their answer choices,
you come up with an answer before
you look at the answer choices.
17:35
This is a subtle thing that
I do not everyone does this.
17:38
So you know, you looked at the question
stem looked at the answer choices,
you read the whole
question stem carefully.
17:44
And then you can think to yourself,
What do I think is the answer?
And then you can look
at the answer choices.
17:48
Not everyone does this,
I tend to do it more often than not.
17:52
The reason why not
everyone does this
is it's hard to know the answer
choices after you only skim them once
and then carefully read
an entire question stem.
18:00
But again, you don't have
to, I just bring this up as
it's an option of something
that you potentially can do.
18:06
And again, the key to all of this is
that never start reading a question
by just hitting next and
then question number 14 here
and just starting at the
top reading the whole stem,
reading the last sentence and
looking at answer choices.
18:19
That's not an efficient way.
18:21
That's how I unfortunately
started in the very beginning.
18:23
I don't recommend it.
18:25
And then overall,
use our strategy.
18:27
Questions stem last sentence, scan the
answer choices, the whole question,
try to come up with an
answer, eliminate answers.
18:35
Notice I didn't say pick
the right one eliminate.
18:38
Because once you
eliminate what's wrong,
because there's going to be,
say there's five answer choices,
there's going to be four
wrong, and only one correct,
you can eliminate things
usually pretty quickly.
18:48
And then you can focus on how
to pick the final right answer,
as opposed to try to look at all of them
and thinking which one could be right.
18:55
It's easier to think
which one can be wrong.
18:59
All right.
19:00
Now again, question banks
are pretty phenomenal.
19:04
I remember I was a third year med
student and like my stroke attending
told me when he was studying
for his subspecialty boards,
he's like all I did was
Qbank I never cracked a book,
and I remember thinking
that rattled my brain.
19:15
I was like, ''What do you mean?"
And he's like, it's the best
way to learn from a question.
19:19
Reading chapter after chapter,
you don't know what's high yield.
19:22
How do you even know if that's
going to come up on the test?
Question banks are
designed with an intent
to have every question teach
you a high yield lesson.
19:30
If the question bank is
created intelligently.
19:33
So this is why question
banks are amazing.
19:36
It's there's really,
in my opinion,
no better way to learn than
actively engaging with a question
and then trying to learn
from the answer choices.
19:44
But the challenge here is that not everyone
does or use question banks correctly.
19:49
I didn't use them correctly.
19:50
So let's kind of talk a little bit about
how to effectively use a question bank
you know,
for each variable that's in it.
19:59
So first,
when using question banks,
you have an option of how many
questions to do in a block?
What do I recommend?
Always do 40 questions.
20:09
40 questions are...
20:12
How many are on the actual USMLE
Step 1 test for every single block?
So what are we doing?
We are mimicking
test environments.
20:20
You know,
I know some people may say,
"Hey, I'll just do five
questions, I'll do 20, etc."
I really think you should
try to do 40 at a time.
20:28
And why? Muscle memory.
20:30
If your brain is used to sitting down
and doing 40 questions every single time,
that's what you're used to,
you don't know anything else,
your stamina, your
focus, your fatigue,
everything is set up around
the world of 40 questions.
20:44
And that's perfect,
because that's a real test day is.
20:48
So why not do that.
20:49
So again, it's my opinion,
I'm kind of strict about this.
20:52
I don't do 5 questions
in the morning,
you know, I get up early,
and I crank out 40.
20:57
Or I just don't do it.
20:58
But again,
then I feel guilty for not doing it.
21:00
And then I forced time in my
life to make sure I did do my 40.
21:04
And that's just me,
I prefer to do it.
21:06
I always think if you're going to
practice, always practice in,
you know, warlike conditions that
you're going to be engaging in.
21:13
And for this, it's going to be
you're always given 40 questions
every block, there's no variety.
21:17
So just do that.
21:20
And then, you know, like I
said, some questions say,
"Hey, I'll just do 10
because I'm short on time."
And again,
this is a tough talking point,
because I think you
should only do the 40
to train your brain to sit
and focus for 40 questions.
21:32
It's not easy.
21:33
And you know,
I've seen people even like Seph,
you know, in a line at a coffee
shop, and just kind of skimming
you world, or they're like to your Q bank,
and I'm just like, what are you doing?
During those times, you
know, a Qbank requires
a lot of dedicated
focus and attention
and blocking out interruption.
21:49
And we're going to talk about
in the next few slides here,
how to really learn from the Qbank,
not just how to attack the question.
21:56
So because you know, you're you'll
see, hopefully, by the end of this,
that it's insane to think you
could do it casually on your phone,
you really need to be sitting
down blocking everything out.
22:06
So what could you do?
You could watch Breaking Bad.
Sure, a break is good.
22:10
Or what I kind of did was,
I was watching videos on topics,
or reading PDF, like little
paragraphs, while I was in mind,
why I like doing that,
I find that if you're just kind
of reviewing material randomly,
or not randomly,
like random times like this,
like add a line at Starbucks,
it's kind of long for like 2-3 minutes,
you could easily watch that video, as
opposed to just skimming through Instagram,
which has no yield for you.
22:35
The value is you have to pick one
very focused topic that is not random,
something that you care about.
And you're like, hey,
yeah, yesterday,
we were talking about,
you know, thalamic strokes, I don't
really get why they have an aphasia,
let me quickly Google that.
22:49
You know,
something simple and focused,
then you've you know, kind of
grown in that short, little moment.
22:53
So that's why I recommend you
do in these old downtimes,
if you want to try
to be academic.
22:58
And again, Qbanks really do
require your full experience,
your full focus,
so don't use them passively.
23:05
That's I think the most
prone error you can make
is to do a bunch of
questions and do them wrong.
23:12
And then you think, "Oh,
I did a bunch of questions."
Well kind of, it didn't count.
23:15
So that's the pain here, you really got
to try to do it in a way it's effective.
23:19
And we'll talk about
that right now.
23:21
So oh, looks up. Yeah. So yeah,
someone's asking you
about Time Mode and
what mode you do?
I'll tell you right now.
23:29
So you know, so the first
thing that Qbank will ask you
is how many questions
do you want to do?
We should do 40.
23:36
And then second, they'll ask you
do you want to timed or untimed.
23:40
And if you want to do it in test
mode, or tutor mode.
23:42
So again, presuming you kind of
catch the model or they go here,
you want to mimic test day
strategy, test day experience.
23:52
So we want to always simulate
the test day environment.
23:57
So I always do it
timed never untimed.
23:59
The rationale why is if
you're doing 40 questions,
and you click timed,
it will naturally put a clock up there,
it's going to be the exact same clock that
you are going to experience on exam day.
24:11
So that you whenever
you open a question,
you don't just sit there
and you play on your phone.
24:14
Oh, yeah.
What was that question? No.
24:16
If you see a question,
you could trigger your full focus,
you're trying to read
the question stem,
the answer choices,
picking it etc.
24:25
Within a minute and a half a pick a
choice, and you move on.
24:28
There is no rereading or rethinking
all this stuff. There's no time.
24:32
So that's why I think you
should do a time because again,
you need to put yourself in the
experience zone of doing it time
because that's what you're
going to do one exam day,
why practice anything different?
Second, I think you
should do it to test mode.
24:46
And again, the so like,
what is the difference between,
you know,
test mode and tutor mode?
Tutor mode every time
you click an answer,
it'll give you the answer solution right
away to know if you're right or wrong,
and it'll give you
the full explanation.
25:00
Tests mode,
it makes you do all 40 questions.
25:02
And at the very end,
it'll give you answers to all of them.
25:05
I think you should always
do it in test mode,
because that's what
the real test is.
25:12
You don't, you know,
in real tests that you don't pick it,
and they tell you if you did it
right or wrong, that kills the flow.
25:17
So do it in test mode,
do all 40 questions, focus on
interrupted, building that stamina.
25:23
And I will tell you from
personal experience, again,
it is not easy to do 40 questions
back to back to back every block,
like,
you're fresh and ready to go.
25:33
It's not, it's actually hard.
25:35
So that's why you need
to train like that.
25:37
You do 40 questions,
you do them timed,
you always do them in test mode,
because that's what
you do on game day.
25:43
And you start to build the
stamina, the focus,
and you know,
fatigue resistance to do well at that.
25:49
And again,
that's what the whole focus is.
25:51
A couple questions here.
25:55
You know, we're going to highlighting
key words in the question stems.
25:59
I think it's a great idea.
26:01
Good point, I didn't think about that,
they didn't think about saying that.
26:04
I think it's a phenomenal idea.
26:06
I do it because I
need to engage myself,
like back in the day when I was in
college, most things were on paper.
26:13
So I always like underlined
with like the pencil I had.
26:17
Now everything's
on the computer.
26:18
So I physically use the cursor to
highlight certain selective words,
not like the whole thing.
26:24
And again,
I just do it to keep myself focused.
26:28
But again, that comes with
strategy, the more questions you do,
you will develop a sense of
what you'd like to highlight.
26:34
Some people have had almost every word
is just like, okay, that worked for you.
26:38
There's no wrong way.
26:39
Some people just stare at it,
don't even touch the mouse,
that's okay too,
do whatever works.
26:43
I like to do it to engage
myself to make myself focus.
26:46
Because again,
doing lots of questions builds fatigue,
it's not easy,
it's not that much fun.
26:51
You want to kind of get it over
with and go on with your life.
26:53
But I use it as a way
to really keep myself
engaged in the screen
focus on the question,
not getting distracted,
getting the most out of it.
27:03
Let's see,
here are the questions.
27:05
How many questions you do every day
to get the information normal range?
You can do the things you can,
you know,
it's completely up to you.
27:15
You know, if you could do
three, four blocks a day, wow,
or just two blocks a
day, that's okay.
27:19
When I was doing full Qbank,
I could only do two blocks a day,
do a block in the morning,
takes an hour spent four hours
going through everything,
another block in the afternoon
after lunch and another four hours.
27:29
That's, you know,
10 hours already gone for that day.
27:32
So I can only do
two blocks a day.
27:34
But I was slow and very
thorough on my reading,
which we'll talk about how to
do that here in a few moments.
27:39
But that's just me.
Some people could do many blocks a day.
27:42
I don't know what they're getting on a
bit, hopefully a lot.
27:44
Maybe they're just
faster than me.
27:45
But in my slow and
thoughtful strategy,
I could only do
two blocks a day.
27:50
And again, yeah, the highlighting
feature is available in the build test.
27:52
You can also right click
on the answer choices
to put a line through it
and kind of gray's it out.
27:57
So you don't even
see it that much.
27:58
And you just see the rest answer
choices that you're working through.
28:01
So other pretty fun.
28:04
Options, you have an exam day.
28:07
Okay.
28:08
So here the benefit here is that
yeah, so again, so, you know,
again, why do I push doing
Qbanks in a certain way?
Timed 40 questions, test mode,
because you're going
to spend a solid hour
going through 40 questions
just like you do on exam day,
you then finish the block, and then
you get to go through each question
and carefully read it.
28:26
So that's what we do, you
know, test mode, 40 questions,
and you treat each
question like game day.
28:32
And then when you are done now
is the most important part,
I'm going to tell you more than anything
is how do you learn from the Qbank?
If you do this part wrong,
you're doing questions, and I don't
know what you're getting out of it.
28:43
How do I know that because I mess up
in step 1 setting until the very end,
and then I had to
scram to figure it out.
28:48
So when you sit down for a
while, the questions again,
clear up an hour of your time,
sit in a location that's like test day,
I would be at a
cubicle at the library.
28:59
I put everything off my desk,
I had just a laptop, the phone was
in airplane mode or turned off.
29:05
I didn't have anything else on
the desk that was allowed to
add a pencil and a piece of paper
because that's what they let you do.
29:11
And that was it.
29:12
Because again,
I wanted to simulate exam day.
29:14
I don't have music on or
TV or food on my desk.
29:18
You know,
I'm all crazy about it.
29:19
I wanted to emulate and simulate
the real testing environment.
29:24
So I said I think you should do.
29:25
And yeah, Andreas, that's okay.
29:27
If you can't do more than one
block a day that is perfectly fine.
29:30
Because that's all
you can do in life.
29:32
This is like a bigger principle, but you
cannot sweat the small stuff like this.
29:36
If someone is doing a few blocks a
day, who cares?
We're going to quote one of my
good friends, Warren Buffett
He's not a good friend
and I wish he was.
29:44
But he does have this analogy that I like
and he calls it the internal report card.
29:50
This is probably the most thoughtful
thing you need to know in medicine.
29:53
It's very easy to compare
yourself to other people.
29:57
Oh, he says he's getting this kind
of score percent correct on Qbank,
he's doing this
many blocks a day.
30:02
He's read all these
questions he's done,
you know, the Qbank on the third run
now, it's eat, who cares?
And that's really hard
to ignore all that stuff.
30:12
Trust me, I know.
30:13
But what you have to ask
yourself is how am I doing
compared to myself yesterday,
last week, a month ago?
That's all that matters, because you're the
only person that you can work on yourself.
30:23
As long as you are moving up and
improving, you're doing good.
30:25
So if you can only do one block a
day, so be it.
30:30
Do one block a day.
30:31
And then keep putting
in the effort.
30:33
Keep putting in the time and watch
yourself go to more than one block a day.
30:37
Who cares what other
people are doing?
But it's extremely hard
to not compare yourself.
30:41
It's like a human nature trade.
30:43
But we all have to
do it every day.
30:45
So after you take in the full block
and full test mode, 40 questions timed.
30:50
Now we have to go
through the question.
30:51
This is where the
rubber meets the road.
30:53
This is the most
important thing.
30:55
This is how you use
a question bank.
30:57
This is why you buy the question
bank is boring this moment.
31:00
So start with the
first question.
31:03
And so now we're
like in tutor mode,
let's say we're going to you
know, we've done the 40 questions,
we click Submit it told us you
got this many questions correct
and these many questions wrong.
31:12
Sure, you're going to care about
the percent of right or wrong
because as human instinct.
31:17
Don't worry about it.
31:19
You worry about it towards the
end, when exam day is coming. Sure.
31:22
But again, maintain that
internal report card concept
and just watch your
score hopefully go up.
31:28
If it goes down every now and
then goes back up, whatever,
you got to kind of zoom out some blocks
are just going to be harder than others.
31:34
But just worry about yourself,
look at that percent correct.
31:37
And the beginning ignore it.
31:39
We don't care what
you're getting right.
31:41
This is like a big thing that
I teach on the private side,
when you are starting
out in the Qbank,
we don't care what percent
you get right or wrong,
because it means nothing.
31:49
You haven't even seen the
value of the Qbank yet.
31:52
Once you start learning
from the Qbank,
like we're going to
talk about right now,
then later,
the percent correct matters.
31:57
So hit next after they tell
you your percent correct?
And then just start
with the first question.
32:03
Because they're going to open up the whole
block to you again and let's learn from it.
32:06
So the first thing you should do
is to reread the question stem
and again,
scan the answer choices.
32:12
And even if you got the
answer right or wrong,
we're going to do the same
thing every single time.
32:16
So after you read it,
then you're going to get an explanation,
where they're going to tell you
the correct answer was whatever.
32:23
And then they'll give you a
little bit paragraph usually about
you know what it means and
what you can learn from it.
32:29
And then there'll be answers as to why
every single other answer choice was wrong.
32:35
This is very valuable.
32:36
This is where you should
really be putting in your time.
32:38
This is why it took me 4 hours to go
through a block of 40 questions on review.
32:43
Because I didn't just
skim this and go,
"Okay, got it right.
Yeah, I knew it. Next."
You have to read painfully here.
32:48
So what I want you to do, and it's my
recommendation, this is the valuable part,
go through the description below
and read the correct answer choice.
32:55
Whether you got to right or wrong,
you do the same thing every time.
32:58
You don't get confident because
you got it right. Nobody cares.
33:01
Read the description,
and see if there's any part of it
that you don't know we have
an absence of knowledge,
or you didn't maybe
interpret the data correctly,
you didn't read the image right.
33:11
The chart was confusing to you.
33:12
You need to identify,
where did I go wrong?
Even if you've got it right,
you need to go why did I get it right?
Did I guess? Did I eliminate
answer choices that were wrong?
And that's how I figured it out.
33:23
You need to know why
you got it wrong.
33:25
Or why you get it right,
because you need to know an answer.
33:28
Now, maybe you misunderstood
the question being asked
or maybe you asked the question
that was partially right,
but not the best answer.
33:35
You need to ask yourself
with every single question
all these questions to
yourself, what happened?
And this is why
it takes so long.
33:43
This is also why I recommend
doing a question block
and then reviewing it
immediately thereafter.
33:48
If you do a question block today, and then
you start trying to review it tomorrow,
you're not gonna remember the
thinking you had in your head
as to why you behave
the way you did.
33:57
Why you picked answer
choices the way you did.
33:59
So it's really in your
favor to try to do
the review right after
doing the question block.
34:05
So again, the purpose of this about why
you want to go to the correct answer first
is you want to figure out why
the correct answer is correct.
34:11
And then you want to
go through the process
to figure out why was
every wrong answer wrong.
34:15
This is also important because
really, then every question
becomes five hidden
questions in one.
34:21
Because you never know the
wrong answer choice could be
the core of the content for
the next question being asked
or maybe on real exam day.
34:28
So you get just as much data from the
wrong as you do the correct answer.
34:33
Now, you need to again, you need
to like we said be able to identify
from each question and why you got
it wrong or why even got it right.
34:41
And they need to see if it was
a lack of knowledge now if say,
Okay, I didn't know this
content, I wasn't too sure.
34:47
Then you need to say something what I'm
doing like going on to the next question.
34:50
I'm going to open up my video
series, I'm going to open up a book,
whatever I need to, to try to then
learn the content for that moment
and then take notes somewhere or in the
book you have it's your high yield book,
maybe its first aid book
or whatever you like,
and just start writing in there what
you got wrong from the question.
35:07
So that later if you
look at that book,
you'll go yeah,
this is a kind of a high yield topic
that I didn't understand
that's related to this content.
35:14
Now, if again, like we said,
if you were then lacking,
maybe not knowledge,
but in test taking strategy,
where you were kind of confused or
tricked by the wording that they use,
then you need to make yourself
aware of these mistakes,
and try to focus on it.
35:27
This is a lot harder,
because you can't
just open up a book
and find testing strategy
errors that you made.
35:33
You need to kind of find
this out to yourself.
35:36
You could say, hey,
they worded this really odd,
technically USMLE is not
supposed to use double negatives.
35:43
And I supposed to say which of the
following is not like, you know,
they're not supposed to use
the not phrase too much.
35:48
But if that happens,
you think about it.
35:50
If you say hey, you know,
I quickly read the last sentence,
and I thought I knew the question,
but then I came back to it later,
I kind of got
confused and forgot.
35:59
And I picked an answer choice.
I just felt right.
36:01
You need to think about that.
36:02
And make like mental
notes to yourself
on how are you managing
your test taking strategy.
36:08
That again, is another big reason
why names I always like to say,
review the question the same day
after doing the 40 questions.
36:16
If you try to review it the next
day, or even worse, after that,
you're not gonna remember what you
were thinking or what you were feeling
with respect to test
taking strategy.
36:25
So like we said, you're going to go
through all the other answer choices
that were wrong and figure
out why they are wrong.
36:31
Again, yes, this takes forever.
36:33
This is why it takes so long.
36:34
This is why it takes me about 4 hours to
go through a Qbank after I've done it.
36:38
Because you're putting in all this
time and thinking about the question.
36:41
And again, learning about why
the wrong answer choices wrong,
helps you know more thoroughly about
why the correct one is correct.
36:48
And again, on the real test.
36:50
Remember, you pick a topic
that may come up maybe
one of the wrong answer
choices from a Q bank question,
and then maybe the
real question later.
36:59
So again, every Q bank question has
multiple learning points, not just one.
37:05
Now, like we said earlier,
after you've reviewed it,
and you find a gap knowledge in
your thinking or your understanding,
you got to open up the book, video
series, YouTube, whatever you do,
and fill in the knowledge
that you did not know
that you're going to
say is high yield.
37:20
In my opinion,
if it's in a Qbank,
and you didn't know
it is high yield.
37:24
No one's gonna make a Qbank
question for minutiae.
37:27
And again, if you need to do
more learning what better time
this is analogous, this is maybe a kind of
a hard analogy, if it's something easier.
37:36
But like, once you're on
the wards in the hospital,
they say the best way to learn a topic
is to read about every single patient.
37:42
So if you had a patient come
in with a left MCA syndrome,
and then you read about
left MCA syndrome,
it's easier to remember because you
remember the patient in your head,
you remember reading about it,
you connected to it, make sense of it.
37:54
And it's kind of easier to
remember, same thing here.
37:57
If you have a question.
37:58
And again, you're seeing how
much time we're putting into
reading the answer and the
solution and the explanation.
38:04
While you're reading
all these things,
when you stop and then take
a book open or watch a video
and keep learning about the
same topic at the same moment.
38:12
Same analogy,
it's getting ingrained in your head,
you're not spending all these
minutes and 10s of 20 minutes
just on one question sometimes.
38:20
But by the end of it,
you've really wrapped your head around it
and filled in that
knowledge base.
38:24
There's nothing
better you can do.
38:26
This is why a Qbank
is so valuable.
38:28
You entrench yourself
in every question,
and you get the most out of it.
38:32
You cannot do that if you're
flying through questions.
38:34
If you find through questions,
you're not much isn't sticking to you.
38:37
But if you entrench
yourself, it's like glue.
38:40
And then you do better.
38:41
The value of this is,
after you've done like
a couple 100 questions
or a little low 1000s.
38:46
You just catch this
trend so much better.
38:49
You review faster,
you will know the content better,
you remember, oh yeah,
I've seen things on this before,
and you just get better at it.
38:56
So don't be discouraged when you're very
slow in the beginning, it is natural.
39:01
But every time it's so hard,
but you will you know, get better at it.
39:05
Alright, so here's a question.
39:08
How close are Qbanks to?
Oh, oh, yeah.
Okay, kind of a tough question.
39:12
Because it depends on
the Qbank you're using.
39:16
So if you're using a good Qbank,
it's going to be very much
like the real test day.
39:22
And if you're using a garbage Qbank,
then it's going to be garbage.
39:26
This is hard.
39:28
Of course, we're on a Lecturio platform,
here at the best Qbank you can ever get.
39:33
I mean,
it's obviously a very good Qbank.
39:34
I wouldn't be supporting
it if it wasn't.
39:36
But you know, this is I think, where you
kind of have to do your own due diligence
and talk to senior members of
your school or people you respect.
39:44
And people are going to tell you what
they use and you use the Qbank yourself.
39:48
And if you start to think like this,
this is kind of worded kind of weird.
39:51
I don't know.
I don't know if I like it.
39:53
You can also do the
USMLE mock exams
of the actual USMLE releases
themselves once you got to pay for
and you can do that Questions and
kind of do an internal reflection of,
"Is the Qbank I'm using good?"
And I'm just going
to also say this,
if you're using a mainstream
Qbank, you're fine.
40:10
You know, if you're using some weird book,
okay, don't use a book. That's crazy.
40:13
Everything's online now.
40:15
So if you're using like a mainstream
big Qbank that everyone else uses,
it should be fine.
40:19
If you're using something weird
and minor in esoteric stuff.
40:23
So again, it's kind of, you know, asking
people and doing your own internal review.
40:27
But if you're using something
mainstream, it should be perfectly fine.
40:31
Alright, so again,
learning from a question bank,
as you can see,
this civil lengthy process is painful.
40:39
You know, it's in time intensive,
it's very active thinking, reading,
contemplating to yourself,
coming up with a strategy as to
why did I make errors?
Why did I think about that?
It's like, very intense,
internal review,
and it requires
your full attention.
40:56
This is why you can't if now that
you see how I review the question,
no way you can do this.
41:00
Well, it's like walking
through a Starbucks line,
you need to sit and be
completely entrenched
in the screen and
thinking about it,
and eliminating
other distractions.
41:08
And yes, it's time intensive,
it requires your full attention,
you get drained
after doing a Bach...
41:13
I used to get into the
library, when 7 or 8am,
do the block 8-9, 9 to like, 9,
10, 11, 12 to 1 I'd be reviewing,
I go home, eat lunch, like walk around for
a little bit and come back within an hour,
and then do the same thing.
41:28
So it's so intensive,
I took like an hour long break
between doing blocks
when I was studying.
41:33
So it's that kind of strategy.
41:35
But again, as you can
see, it makes sense.
41:39
It's something this I mean, hopefully you
can just see the logic behind this method.
41:42
It's not like I'm,
it's not weird.
41:44
It's just you're putting a lot
of time you're being thoughtful,
you're entrenching
yourself in the moment.
41:48
And you know,
it's proven to lead to success.
41:50
And hopefully,
it's logical to you.
41:52
You don't have to trust me,
you can just use your own barometer
and see if that makes sense.
41:56
So again, let's kind of summarize
what we've talked about here.
42:00
Step 1, questions are in the
format of clinical vignettes.
42:03
And each question focuses
on a single patient,
and every question has
a single best answered,
just try your best to
remember that always,
it's an easy trick they use, especially
when you're pressured under time,
you're anxious on exam day, etc.
42:18
This is where they get you.
42:19
And then studying for it requires
using your question bank,
and whenever you do use a question
bank, simulate the exam day
40 Questions timed test
mode, nothing else.
42:30
And I'm strict about that
when it comes to myself.
42:33
Because once I start to give
myself a little bit of leeway...
42:36
Oh, all the 10 questions on do not
timed, it's all gonna fall apart.
42:40
So keep it tight, have a strict program
with yourself and you will do better.
42:45
And again, when studying
from the question bank,
you want to use the careful process of
really learning from every question,
the correct answer that was
supposed to be for the question,
and also all the
wrong answer choices.
42:58
Because again, this is where it takes so
much time to read through each question,
each question that is not only a
learning point as to what was right,
it's also a learning point
as to what was wrong.
43:08
And as you learn
the wrong answers,
you start to learn
that content more deep,
and I guarantee you wrong answers
become the ninus for the next question
is just what question
bank creators do,
how innovative can
they really be?
So it's in your favour to do so.
43:22
And you know, as you're studying
each question, use text,
video references,
whatever you have to study,
because again, it keeps you engaged
in the moment with that question,
and you're learning better.
43:34
Alright, so here's like,
some marketing info.
43:38
So to prepare for the USMLE
with a comprehensive Q bank,
try a one week free Lecturio
Qbank, no credit card necessary.
43:46
Again, this is nice,
because I really do believe
use the barometer technique
I'm telling you about.
43:52
Go buy, like one of the USMLE
question banks from the company,
do those questions, do Lecturio
thing, it's free for a week.
43:59
See if you like it, you know,
if it's not for you, that's okay.
44:02
If it is, you know,
I'm gonna be pretty surprised
if it's not because the
content is so strong.
44:08
And it's very much like the
test and you'll like it.
44:11
And otherwise I wouldn't
be putting all this effort
to support it and try
and teach you guys,
I want you to have
access to a good Qbank.
44:17
I want you to have tools to win.
44:18
I recommend it.
44:21
Wow, that was fantastic.
44:22
And we have over 2000
Step 1 Qbank questions.
44:25
- So a lot.
- Wow.
44:27
Yeah, we're always...
44:28
And people do the
Qbank more than once.
44:30
Imagine doing 4000
questions before exam day.
44:33
Exactly. And that's not including
the spaced repetition questions.
44:36
So we have so many questions.
44:39
And I thought it was a
great point you added
about not doing things
in the Starbucks line.
44:43
So with our app, you can actually
download our video library.
44:48
You cannot the video lessons
and do those in line
versus Qbank questions.
44:54
So I thought it
was really great.
44:55
So well,
we have a little bit of time.
44:58
So if there any questions,
please free to put them into chat box.
45:01
We answered some throughout
the presentation.
45:04
But that was really
great information.
45:07
And I think a really
great way to learn how to
methodically and strategically
tackle those Q bank questions,
because we all we're
always talking about them.
45:17
Like how to really use them
effectively is something that
I don't think I've heard before.
45:25
So I thought it was wonderful.
45:27
Sorry,
does anyone have any questions?
So we're actually working on
what we call our concept cards,
which is something a little bit
more high tech and high yield.
45:44
And so you're really like them.
45:46
So look on the on
the lookout -- ,
because we're doing a lot of things
where we're kind of rearranging
and packaging things where it's
going to make a lot more sense.
45:55
And you'll love it even more
than flashcards, I promise.
45:58
We're doing a lot of
research on how students
can effectively learn and manage
your time and get the most
and especially
with for retention.
46:08
So you want to look out.
46:11
The other questions, let's see.
46:14
Oh,
this is a very good question.
46:16
Is it better to do random block
for specific subjects at once?
That's a very good point.
46:21
In the beginning,
I always tried to mimic the content
that you're learning in the
coursework during medical school
with the Qbank content.
46:28
So you're learning, hopefully good
content in school, usually it's not.
46:33
It's not usually a high yield.
46:34
And then but you can say, okay,
we're doing cardiopulmonary right now,
I will do cardio and pulmonary
questions in the Qbank.
46:40
That's what I do
in the beginning.
46:41
Once you've reviewed most
of the content in the Qbank,
then I go to mix subject,
because then it's what the exam is doing.
46:48
The exam doesn't give you like,
"Oh, it's just a heart now,
oh, it's just a kidney."
They mix it up random.
46:53
So in the beginning,
I don't do it random,
because you're just still
learning the content.
46:57
But once you've covered
the content and learned it,
then go mixed, because that's
an exam that is like exam day.
47:08
One question that just came up.
47:11
Which one?
Do you see it?
So the question is,
is it good to just do only one type
of Qbank question before the exam?
Oh, yes, if you're somewhere,
is it good to do just one on one time.
47:34
I know what that means...
47:35
Maybe...
47:37
getting more content,
maybe by subject.
47:41
Do you mean by...
47:44
If it's before the exam, you know,
in the very beginning to a bisubject
because you're
learning the content,
but once you've reviewed the content
ones, always mix it up.
47:52
And then on exam day,
I recommend not doing questions in
the morning, you can if you want.
47:57
But again, random.
47:58
Do not,
you know in the beginning,
subject to help you
learn towards the end,
random because that's
what exam day is.
48:10
We have way, way more questions.
48:15
Yeah, I didn't...
48:19
--
So that is actually again,
I think the value is up to you.
48:24
What I like about
Lecturio over UWorld
is Lecturio has other content
built into it to help you learn.
48:31
You will learn on your own.
48:33
So here there is pages, the first eight
and a just go straight to the videos.
48:38
But you know, either way, I'm going
to argue do whatever works for you.
48:41
If you like to look at me,
you'll be hopefully using both
and learning from everything.
48:45
But you will find what works
for you and just stick with it.
48:50
But I have a preference because it's kind
of unless you know all your resources.
48:53
It's a little bit tricky.
48:55
And just as a question regarding
a comment regarding resources,
really trying to have
as few as you can.
49:01
It is impossible to
have many resources.
49:04
I feel like this is also one of
the things that I had anxiety about
when I first started med school.
49:09
It was I wanted
all the resources.
49:10
But I thought I felt sick,
it was like more blankets around me
and I felt more safe and warm.
49:15
It is hard to have lots of resources
and you cannot master them.
49:19
So I picked one
resource for every topic
and some resources banned as many
topics as they were still good.
49:26
And I stuck with it.
49:27
And it was really hard because
I hear some people saying,
"Oh, I'm using this.
It's amazing for me."
Who cares what's good for them?
There's no winner out there.
49:35
Try them all out and see
what you think works for you
and just stick with it and
ignore the other resources.
49:40
That is hard to do.
49:42
But I really believe
strongly in... --
And so we have a question.
49:48
Do you have RM
preparation Qbank?
So I'm going to assume for
nursing, if that's correct.
49:56
So absolutely. It's on a different
platform than our med resources.
50:00
So you'll go to
lecturio.com/nursing.
50:03
And you'll be able to see
all of the resources there.
50:05
So I'm hoping you're
nursing and not right now.
50:10
So hopefully I got that
acronym correct. So...
50:14
But yes, we absolutely do.
50:17
Any other questions?
Oh, my goodness,
I cannot believe.
50:23
You have 10 minutes,
guys, any questions?
I can work very
efficient, very efficient.
50:36
I want him to just make I don't
want to cut off too early,
I want to make sure that we
answer all the questions.
50:43
Well, let's see I we had a poll.
50:44
So let's just see how many of
you, but we can watch the flow.
50:48
How many of you are already
premium Lecturio members?
Let's just take a
poll real quick.
50:53
And see, they'll give us ideas.
50:55
So quick things we can tell you
about just knowing the audience.
51:00
So we have some premium
members, some free versions.
51:06
As we have, I used to
have it previously,
but not anymore you got to come back
as a -- computer new.
51:17
So what I'll say is that one of the one
of the great things about Lecturio is
that as we added more resources,
there's no additional charges.
51:26
And I think that's
like fantastic.
51:28
And that gives you opportunity
to have access to resources,
not based on what
you can afford,
but based on what you
academically need to study.
51:37
And I think that's
really, really important.
51:39
So if we add in another
300 video lessons tomorrow,
if you're a premium member,
you automatically have access.
51:48
And I think that's one of the
great things about Lecturio.
51:51
The other thing is that if you haven't
checked our exam preparation link,
we have study plan
subject exams.
51:59
So if you're just focused
on one particular subject,
you can do you can just
focus on that subject.
52:05
And that's really great,
because it includes video lessons,
Qbank questions, space retention
questions, which are content questions.
52:14
Everything you would need
for that particular subject.
52:16
So all in one place.
52:18
And so you don't have to go
around looking and searching,
it's totally up to you how
you want to use the resources.
52:23
So if you have the free version,
you'll only see some
of the resources.
52:28
Obviously,
if you have the premium membership,
you have access to everything.
52:33
But with the free trial, you'll have access
to the premium membership for a whole week.
52:38
And you can really
test out these methods,
this method that we've
introduced to you today,
you can test that
out and that one.
52:49
Yeah, and the concept of the this
is, I think, a very unique thing.
52:53
Space repetition is hard to
do, because it sucks.
52:57
Who wants to see the same thing
all the time over and over again?
You know, if you if you
weren't good at it yesterday,
it's not fun to see it today.
53:03
No, you're still not good at it.
Probably.
53:05
When I was doing this, there was no
Qbank that has faced reputation built in.
53:09
I was using this like archaic
software called -- on keys ,
people still use it,
but it's just like clunky.
53:14
And it was painful.
53:15
I had to make all my own
flashcards with all my own content.
53:19
And it sucked.
53:20
And I say that because
again, I want you to know
not everyone's like running
around med school thinking,
"Oh, this is so much fun and
learning every day. This is a blast."
No, it sucks.
53:28
You know,
it's fun being rich on a yacht.
53:31
But again, like you know,
we're all making it through med school.
53:34
So I want you to know that like, you know,
I was doing it that way through on key.
53:37
And that's because if we know
the value of spaced repetition,
it's not fun, but it really does
help cement the content in there.
53:43
And if it's built in here, that's just
you know, that's just really convenient.
53:47
It helps it do
spaced repetition.
53:50
If you haven't, if you don't
know what it is YouTube it today,
- it's important to you're life.
- Go to lecturio.com
and check it out.
53:58
So Jimmy has a question.
54:02
You need to learn use YouTube.
54:03
I use YouTube a lot. I love it.
54:05
So Jimmy has a question.
54:07
If you can score 70% or more
each time and each subject,
can I tell myself
ready at the end?
I have no idea.
54:19
Because again, it's you have to be
careful, like did you get 70%?
And then after you
reviewed it you're like,
"Well, I kind ofguess on these I don't
even know how I got this one right."
I never saw this but I did it
based on test taking strategy.
54:30
You have to kind of
know to yourself.
54:33
You know, am I getting the score that
I got because I really knew the content
or were using was I using
test taking strategy etc?
It is perfectly fine to get correct answers
on the basis of test taking strategy.
54:44
Part of some questions are
actually rooted in that.
54:47
They don't expect you to
know an esoteric topic,
but they expect you to know why all
the other wrong answers are wrong.
54:54
And that is the basis of
that question for example.
54:57
So it's kind of painful,
but they will give you topics
you do not know or
have you ever heard of,
and they will just expect you to
know that it's not the other choices.
55:05
And you'll get it right.
55:06
So that's kind of like the internal
feedback you have to give yourself,
is the percentage correct I'm getting
based on knowledge and testing strategy,
or am I getting lucky?
And then along that same line,
don't look at a raw percent.
55:20
You just need to again,
look at that internal report card
and see, am I going up?
If you went from, you know, in the
beginning, people start like a 30, 40%.
55:28
Don't feel guilty.
If you do, who cares?
Just move up.
55:31
And if by the end, you're scoring
much higher, it's in your favor.
55:34
So I don't look at a
hard cutoff threshold,
I just want to see
upward trajectory.
55:39
Because realistically,
at the end of the day,
you don't have forever
to take this exam.
55:44
We have some timeline, you're not going
to wait a whole year again to take it.
55:47
You just need to
do the best you can
within the time you have,
the resources you have.
55:51
You take it and you move on.
55:53
That's just kind of
real life with medicine.
55:55
Any final thoughts?
Or was that it?
Well,
thank you all for being here.
56:09
Please check out the resources.
56:12
We are so happy to have you all take
a little bit of time out your day.
56:16
And to learn more about Lecturio
and learn this Qbank method.
56:20
I think this is really awesome.
56:22
And I'm hoping that everyone will try to
use it as soon as they can and see success.
56:28
Because every day you
get a little closer,
and it gets a little bit better.
56:32
So we appreciate you
all having this interest
in learning more about Lecturio
and what we have to offer.
56:40
And of course, always DocOssareh
has a wonderful job as usual.
56:45
And we love having you here.
56:46
So thank you all
for coming today.
56:50
--
- Alright, thanks a lot, guys.
- Thank you.
56:54
And please let us know guys
what you would like see,
some topics you'd
like to see us cover.
56:59
And we will try to see
if we can build those in.
57:02
So thank you all have a great day
and we will see you the next time.
57:09
Thanks, bye.
57:12
Goodbye.