Shelf exam

Imagine you’re a new MS3 just starting out on clinical rotations. You’d like to eventually pursue a career in surgery, but your first clerkship happens to be in psychiatry. You go through the motions of the rotation, taking detailed histories and obtaining collateral from your patients. Generally, you perform well and receive solid evaluations from read more…

Matching into residency is the ultimate goal and arguably the purpose of medical school. The years spent in the library—starting with the basic sciences and physiology, proceeding to clinical medicine and rotations, and followed by subinternships—are all to get you into a program that will train you to become an attending physician. It’s important to read more…

It’s common for students to feel overwhelmed or even panicked when put under the spotlight for a high-stakes, timed, multiple-choice test. Many questions can be tautological or filled with distractors, irrelevant information, and a slew of lab tests and diagnostics that obscure the case and the correct answer. However, having a systematic approach can demystify read more…

The best way to learn medical content is to have real patient encounters that expose you to a real person with an emotional connection to the case, workup, and outcomes. This is why the clinical year of medical school exists, so you can begin to encounter patients and hopefully continue this learning throughout residency. However, medical read more…

Studying for the shelf exams and Step 2 can be an intimidating endeavor! Your goal this year is to get ready for residency and match with your dream program, but what do programs care most about? Rotation grades (for which the shelf plays a major role), your Step 1 performance (which is now pass/fail as read more…

Crushing the OB/GYN shelf exam is equally about HOW you study as it is WHAT you study. The latter is far easier to communicate, but I hope to convey an overall ethos regarding the best approach to studying medicine. First, a note on how. Have you ever heard the expression “the best diet is the read more…

Obstetrics and Gynecology is an exciting, dynamic, and captivating field–especially when you’re hitting the wards for the first time. However, positioning yourself to score a top mark on the OB/GYN shelf exam is challenging because much of the content is specific and unique to this clerkship alone. When I was going through third year, I read more…

Introducing the Mock Psychiatry Shelf/Clerkship Exam, best suited for medical students who are looking to excel in their psychiatry clerkship. The Mock Psychiatry Shelf/Clerkship Exam is located in your Boost Box (on the home page of your desktop/laptop Rosh Review account). It contains 100 questions and comprehensive explanations to help you prepare for the NBME read more…

Introducing the Mock OB/GYN Shelf/Clerkship Exam, best suited for medical students who want to excel in their OB/GYN clerkship. The Mock OB/GYN Shelf/Clerkship Exam is located in your Boost Box (on the home page of your desktop/laptop Rosh Review account). It contains 100 questions and comprehensive explanations to help you prepare for the NBME Obstetrics read more…

Introducing the Mock Pediatrics Shelf/Clerkship Exam, best suited for medical students who are looking to excel in their pediatrics clerkship. The Mock Pediatrics Shelf/Clerkship Exam is located in your Boost Box (on the home page of your desktop/laptop Rosh Review account). It contains 100 questions and comprehensive explanations to help you prepare for the NBME read more…

Introducing the Mock Internal Medicine Shelf/Clerkship Exam, best suited for medical students who want to excel in their internal medicine clerkship. The Mock Internal Medicine Shelf/Clerkship Exam is located in your Boost Box (on the home page of your desktop/laptop Rosh Review account). It contains 100 questions and comprehensive explanations to help you prepare for read more…

Introducing the Mock Family Medicine Shelf/Clerkship Exam, best suited for medical students who want to excel in their family medicine clerkship. The Mock Family Medicine Shelf/Clerkship Exam is located in your Boost Box (on the home page of your desktop/laptop Rosh Review account). It contains 100 questions and comprehensive explanations to help you prepare for read more…

The Internal Medicine Shelf Exam Qbank is now available for medical students preparing for their Internal Medicine Advanced Clinical (Shelf) Exam. Topics are compatible with the actual NBME® Internal Medicine Advanced Clinical Exam. System General principles 5–10% Immunologic disorders 1–5% Diseases of the blood 5–10% Mental disorders 1–5% Diseases of the nervous system 5–10% Cardiovascular disorders read more…

It’s finally time for your family medicine rotation and you could not be more excited. Although you’re not interested in primary care, you just completed your surgery rotation and are in desperate in need of sleep. A month of outpatient nine to five clinic visits doing well-child visits and reassuring patients that they don’t need antibiotics to treat a viral cold sounds like a piece of cake.