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Nope - just the school has them; I think they are snailmailed out on the same wednesday your school gets them. So I got mine in the mail on saturday 8/20

Got my score back weds. 250/99 Qbank: 79% when I finished it NBME 1: 640 (247) NBME 2: 700 (256) Also, I'm usually pretty laid-back and so SDN was helpful in keeping me neurotically motivated to stay on track and not take the challenge lightly. I think I used a combo of hard work (9-12...

I got my score back! I'm not sure how it works at other schools, but I imagine it would be the same. Every Wednesday, the school should recieve the scores of their students who took the boards over a particular week. I took my test july 21st and my school today (weds) recieved scores from...

Got score back today; big thanks to SDN!! 250/99

Yay! - i am so stoked to be done today :D Overall, it wasn't as bad as I thought. I took longer (7 weeks of studying over 8 weeks) than most people. But I didn’t touch anything board related until then and simply felt that that was how long I needed to learn everything. STUDY PLAN: - 3...

5) A 72-year-old woman comes to the physician because of an episode of acute substernal chest pain that occurred while she was rushing to catch a bus. She has basilar crackles at both lung bases. S1 is normal and S2 is decreased. A grade 3/6 systolic murmur is heard best at the upper right...

So I had bunch of questions after taking this one; if anyone could share their thoughts - that would very helpful and much appreiciated :) 1. A 48-year-old man comes to his physician because his wife noticed that his right pupil is "small." Physical examination shows that the right pupil is...

I may be wrong but I belive the way nitrates reduce O2 demand is by decreasing preload. Venodilating the venous system prevents return of blood to heart and so it has less to deal with. Nitrates also vasodilate the coronaries which helps deliver more O2 to meet the demand.

I think its definately worth taking them I'm closer to my test date and I spent basically one whole day for each of them. But thats also because I took it it self-paced mode which allows 4 hours per block. So I would take the test and leave my answer the way it was (right or wrong) and look up...

Okay, here are my post NBME Form 1 questions - thanks to anyone who shares their thoughts 1) women in waiting room is nervous w/ clenched fists says to u "lets get this over with" you as the doc say: - okay , tell me what brings you in - i can see you are upset, please tell me what is...

Yup, those are what I went with I believe its called the MDR (multi-drug resistance) gene that some cancer cells have to help them pump out those particular drugs

I put my thoughts in brackets (which may be wrong) below the question.

I think the best way to answer those ?'s is to make up numbers you can easily fiddle around with say you have a population of 1000, with a 10% prevalence or 100 with disease and thus 900 without disease. so now they are telling you the sensitivity is 90% or in other words, out of the 100...

A 50-year-old man has a 10-year history of poorly controlled hypertension. Vital signs are: Pulse 96/min Respirations 16/min Blood pressure Left arm 226/120 mm Hg Right arm 218/118 mm Hg With the patient in the left lateral decubitus position, a late diastolic sound is heard best...