By : Rasheed For all the exams you have to schedule your exam date ahead by going to Prometric Website or Calling Prometric in the case of Step 1, Step 2 CK. In the case of Step 2 CS you should be logging to this page in the NBME website (for US students) or this [...]
by Ammar Salman This is, in short, my little journey with USMLE step 1. First of all, let me tell you about myself a bit briefly, I was an average student in the College of Medicine, University of Baghdad. I was not one of those studious people, however, I was not one of those really [...]
Is Prometric Practice Test Useful? Well, yes it’s useful in that it puts you in exactly the same testing environment of your real test day and so for example you get yourself acquainted with the test center and see how long it takes from your place of residence to the test center and other logistics [...]
What is Moonlighting? Moonlighting refers to the process by which one physician covers for another physician and get paid for that. In other words you do your friend’s duty and you get his/her hourly payments. It’s called moonlighting because it’s usually done at night shifts. Moonlighting is not available in all programs and even some [...]
According to the NRMP data released for the Match results 2009 here’s the figures In the eighties of the last century the percent of non-US IMGs matched was around 25% From 1990 to 1995 it peaked at 65% From 1995 to 2000 there was another nadir in the graph almost reaching down to 30% From [...]
This must be the most common question that eligible residents are asking at the time they start their match application journey. I know there are commercial services out there that can help you such as www.matcharesident.com and www.imgresidency.com and www.residency-match.com and some others. And I know there are free IMG friendly lists But I think [...]
This seems to be the question on every student‘s mouth since decades! And ironically the answer is still UNKNOWN! OK, now if you don’t have time to read this rather lengthy post. Let me give you the final answer now; Nobody knows! Yes, there are many theories about it and all kinds of speculations. But [...]