An IMG timeline for the Match, working backwards
The application calendar is fixed and everything else has to fit around it. Building a schedule from the deadline rather than from where you are now.
- IMG pathway
- The Match
- Step 2 CK
6 guides on Step 2 CK from Steps IMD.
The application calendar is fixed and everything else has to fit around it. Building a schedule from the deadline rather than from where you are now.
Postponing feels like failure and is sometimes the correct decision. A framework for telling the two apart before the deadline makes it for you.
The abbreviations and jargon that appear constantly in USMLE discussion, explained without assuming you already know what they mean.
With Step 1 reported as pass/fail, Step 2 CK became the scored exam programmes read. What that means for when you take it and how you prepare.
The logistics, timing and small decisions that are easy to get right in advance and expensive to improvise on the morning of a USMLE exam.
Pass/fail scoring moved the pressure rather than removing it. What it changed for how you study, and what it changed for how programmes read your application.