My internal med rotation was so slow that I was able to do a ton of practice questions and that was my best score. If my rotations was especially busy like surgery then I would end up skipping this step because I simply didn't have time and got my 2nd lowest score but it was also my first rotation. Practice questions are active studying which sticks better than passive studying like reading or writing notes. My rotations were each 6 weeks except for women's and behavioral which were split 3 weeks each and then both exams at the end of the 6 weeks so I usually had a good amount of time to study.Īfter going through a chunk of topics I would make a 60 question exam (tutor mode) of those things to reinforce ideas and break up the reading. I never gave myself a set schedule of topics to finish per week or anything, just as long as I got it done in time for the test. (You don't necessarily need all three, I just liked to change up the format of my learning so I wasn't driving myself crazy staring at a screen or book all evening). This gave me a good idea in what I remembered from didactic or past rotations.Īfter that I go through the PAEA blueprint for the EOR using either Pance Prep Pearls, smarty pance, or free online med ed videos. What I would do is take the rotation specific boost exam at the beginning of my rotation in tutor mode over a few days (and totally bomb it). I would recommend this because the price is lower but you still get your own account so you can see your predicted PANCE score and odds of passing the more questions you do which you will want as you begin to study for the PANCE. I bought Rosh review and got a group discount with my class. The way I studied for the EORs developed over the course of my first 3 rotations but I'll tell you what worked best for me and got me my better scores. And the final time you learn it is reviewing for you PANCE where you remember the most because you've gone through everything 3 times now. Then you learn it the second time in rotations studying for EORs and with patients and you forget less. You learn it first in didactic and forget it all. I think that's kind of the point of PA school. Yeah I felt the same way and I'm sure most of your classmates do as well.

Scored low on packrat paea