What I did for COMP

I find that people ask me often what I did to be successful on the COMP exam. So in turn I developed this short list of some things that you can do to prepare.

1) The first thing I did was get a schedule together, personally, I really liked cram fighters! It builds you a complete schedule and you put in your test date as well as what you want to focus on.

1) Made a new ANKI profile called comp

2) I added a deck called pharm, phys, micro, and path.

Over two weeks break between BAB and CLR

1) I watched Pathoma 1-5 

3) Did anki for pathoma over break

4) I watched Pyseo for renal just for the tubules function and did the anki

5) I watched bootcamp for cav and pulmonary phys and did the anki (only for what I was bad at)

6) I watched sketchy for pertussis, diphtheria, staph, step, ebv, cmv, tb, candida, s. pneumoniae, salmonella, e.coli, lysstria

7) Did one form from nbme 28 

8) Started the 100 concepts of anatomy deck

9) I also downloaded USMLERX deck and did 10 cards per day

10) got Amboss and Uworld at all, did all the general foundation blocks from my study plan.

11) Used amboss for msk DO THE FUCKING MSK!

12) Used USMLE RX first aid deck for (HAND, NERVES OF ARM LEG) do those 

12) Started the USMLE RX deck and started doing all biochem/ all of the first chapter on the cell biology 

13) Used the melman deck and started going through it and the arrows and the meds. I attached it to the folder.

14) Did a bunch of forms one every two weeks. DO 26,27,28 during break do one and during bab do two more. 

15 ) Do the Mellman medical biostats and genetics docs at least two times

16) Do MElman high yield equations doc too. 

17) did pathoma for liver path, msk, pancreas

18) did pathoma for all caners

19) sketchy for neuromuscular blockers agents and all sympathomimetics and parasympathetics

20) did as much amboss in the 200 high yield concepts 

21) did amboss modules all of them that i could in the blocks make sure u do immuno and fucking msk

22) used scholar rx for pharm 

Week Before COMP

The week before COMP I made sure I had done NBME’s 15-25! I also made sure to do form 27 & 31. I did not want to use all of them up before step one. Do the forms and while you do them check your answers on 15-20 at every 15 qs. Also keep a notebook and write down why your answer was wrong and why the right answer was correct if you get things incorrect! Don’t be hard on yourself and if you need help, sign up for tutoring and I will walk you through the best way to study and tailor it to you!