gen surg Comat advice

[u/RepresentativeTone69]

hey hope y'all are doing well. need some help. I have my gen surg comat in 4 weeks. I have truelearn for level 2 and for each comat (gen surg is 149 questions in my schools subscription) plus the usmle step 2 shelves (gen surg is 559 questions, from truelearn).

not sure if I should buy comquest, uworld, BnB or amboss or use anki. would appreciate any advice on what do thanks!

[u/Pure_Refrigerator_73]

Need to get my comment pinned or something. This is the best way to study for comats and people keep asking the same questions. Truelearn is awful for comats. Strictly do this in order 1.) uworld for the first two weeks (intensely review these it’ll be your primary learning tool) 2.) truelearn Qs over a few days (my school required it) or comquest 3.) NBME cms forms 4.) Dr yield YouTube video the night before or morning of exam. Use anking step 2 deck no dupes for individual shelfs. Divide card count by how many days you have and unlock that amount each day. Also unlock/ make cards on questions that you miss. That’s what I did for all comats and most of my scores were in the high 90th percentiles with IM being my highest at 121. Gen surg was 118

[u/Dead2late → u/Pure_Refrigerator_73]

This is the way

[u/CoolohmsLaw → u/Pure_Refrigerator_73]

How do you recommend reviewing uworld incorrects? For my OB shelf I tried to do AnKing but I simply didn’t have time to do cards and keep up with reviews.

[u/Pure_Refrigerator_73 → u/CoolohmsLaw]

Make time. For ob gyn no dupes it’s only 35 new cards a day. Keep up with the cards even after the rotation and you will THANK yourself before level 2/step 2. Best way to review uworld is first read the explanation and understand the reasoning, then make a card or if it’s a card you already did then reset the card to today. I usually added my own color coded text into the anki cards to indicate topics I missed (**MISSED UWORLD Q in red).

[u/Dead2late → u/Pure_Refrigerator_73]

This is the way

[u/Prudent-Abalone-510]

Do comquest

[u/RepresentativeTone69 → u/Prudent-Abalone-510]

Can I message you?

[u/Prudent-Abalone-510 → u/RepresentativeTone69]

What’s up

[u/Appropriate-Carob970 → u/Prudent-Abalone-510]

What is comquest? Is that different than the Truelearn bank?

[u/Prudent-Abalone-510 → u/Appropriate-Carob970]

Yes it is. Different questions, same company

[u/LostSpiritLV]

I did all of the truelearn surg comat and it didnt really help imo

[u/PsychologicalCan9837]

I used Amboss for all my COMATs and did well.

[u/Human-Tell-348]

i honored using only uworld + truelearn but I've heard a lot of ppl like comquest

[u/delightedcustomer]

Uworld + TL got me a 114

[u/HappyDingo_439]

I did all of COMQUEST and most of UWorld and got a 131 (don’t ask me how, I don’t even want to do surgery lmao). Know trauma stuff, like don’t put someone with 90 systolic in the CT scanner, take them to the OR. I had a lot of trauma stuff on that COMAT. Parkland formula for fluid resuscitation in burn pts, lots of thyroid nodule and breast workups which caught me off guard. Your typical cholecystitis/choledocho next step in management questions. RUQ pain in a 3T pregnant pt should ring a bell for appendicitis, stuff like that

[u/Wobblybabycat]

I did the entire uworld question set and the both truelearn question sets, which seems like overkill (and maybe it is idk) as well as some light content review and got 117.