USMLE

For UWI Med-School Students

Before you embark upon your USMLE Step-1 journey, we would like all medical candidates to learn 3 important principles behind taking any professional exams; this you must understand fully. These are the 3 factors that should drive your actions and underlie our Step-1 course -:

1. Unprepared candidates will always fail professional licensing exams - Don't go into an exam unprepared. You must commit to an organized method of study that incorporates all the help that you can get. That is why we want to hold USMLE classes; to get you PREPARED. You will be studying with a group of your peers who also share the same goal of success and will set the pace for you to keep up with.  We also use the Kaplan Study Performance monitor to compare your study progress with all the other worldwide Kaplan students.

2. Prepared candidates can still fail these exams if they do not "operationalize their studies". They read the manuals, understand the diagrams, make notes and can "talk the material". They however do not practice exam questions, or do very little tests. From my 17 years of tutoring UWI students, they always want to read and understand the full text before doing questions. The main purpose of our tutorial sessions; to get you exam ready by testing and re-testing your performance on the core exam topics. You will be pulling and pushing you into exam-ready mode. Remember US candidates already sit the SAT & MCAT exams already; most UWI candidates do not experience these high level of exam-prep testing before the USMLE.

3. Prepared candidates can still fail if they do not master exam time management. The USMLE requires approximately 72 seconds per question and the test is 8 hours long. We have designed our Step-1 review course around 2 principles to attack this issue. You need to not only understand the material but also (i) how to do questions under heavy time pressure, and (ii) still a huge majority of these questions right. This is how you pass exams...getting questions right!

Tell your medical colleagues about this revolutionary exam review that we are forming and attend our FREE Information Session on Saturday September 1st @ 5pm.  We have available the 2012 world renowned Kaplan USMLE Step-1 products. Over 75% of US candidates prepare for the exams using Kaplan.....you should too, but we add more features to have a live review course. More news later........spread this news to all your other colleagues..

Paula Barrett 977-3570
Jamaica's USMLE Study coordinator
B&B University-College - 15 Carlton Crescent, beside LIME HQ