Step 2 CS icin asagidaki linklerdenki hasta muayene usullerini izlemenizi tavsiye ederim.
http://www.echt.chm.msu.edu/VideoLect/viewvideos.htmStep 2CS sinavi tibbi bilgilerden ziyade Ingilizce konusmaya, anlamaya, doktorluk ethics lerini test etmeye yonelik bir sinav.
Sinava esim ile calistik. Bu sinav ile ilgili ingilizce siteye yazdigim yorumu Ingilizce olarak aktariyorum, sinava girecek arkadaslara faydali olmasi acisindan.
Basarilar...
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Exam Experience; PASSED!!!
My wife is a foreign gradute IMG. She did not have time to study well for CS because she had left only about a week between Step 1 and Step 2CS exams, inspite of my dissapproval.
Believe it or not, she studied only about 1 day (from 10pm until the morning of the test day-Her test was in the afternoon). She was so stressed that she would fail because she was not prepared. I insisted (Based on what I read from these forums) that CS is a test to evaluate MDs behaviour/personal skills with the SP, less emphasis on his/her medical knowledge.
From 10pm at night till morning, in a hotel room, she practiced on me. I read the various cases from Kaplan CS book. I acted as the patient per the case. For example, I prepared the intial note on a scratch paper (Name/Age/vital signs etc at the door where she was waiting (in the restroom basically). She came in...I was yelling... "DOCTOR..I AM IN PAIN..I AM IN PAIN..."
We were able practice not all the cases till the morning, but as many and diverse cases as possible (Head, extremeties, stomach, chest, child/family councelling etc). We used flash light for the eye ecam, spoon for the ear, tangs for the hearing tool which I don't remember the technical name for it. Then she went to sleep.
After the test she said she messed up the first 5 SPs and her Patient Note was not well at all. She hand-wrote the PN instead of using the computer. But she said she never made any mistake with "acting" (Knocking the door, introduction, cover the legs, washing hand, transition statement, etc). She mentioned she did forget councelling in most cases, but managed her time well. Her English skills was not a problem.
I think the key here is PRACTICE...PRACTICE....PRACTICE. There are some useful web sites with videos that could help you to prepare for CS exams...you should watch those free videos on line for patient examination. If anyone interested, I can send you some links.
Bottom line, my wife PASSED....we are happy...Wish you all luck. If she did it with this ridiculously short time of study, so can you... Maybe she passed it right on the border line, in ortherwords, she got lucky. But our experience is that if you practice, use the usual nmonics for PN, you will be just fine.
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