Just felt like chiming in that I took day 1 yesterday (lazily studying some this morning for day 2) and it was probably more full of ridiculous crap than the other two… which is why I feel confident I’ll do absolutely fine. There was a bunch of stuff that I was literally never taught, and never saw anywhere (from Sketchy to Pathoma to DIT to OME to UpToDate to my classes). There’s no way anyone else is going to get those questions right either, so the standardization on this one is going to be very generous.
Lots of peds, obscure tropical illnesses, bioterrorism, and a ton of stuff that’s not related to direct patient care like quality/safety/billing/insurance/admin/legal stuff. The latter category I would estimate was at least 25% of day 1.
There were lots of questions that bothered me and I looked up a few after - one had nothing about it on UpToDate and googling got me mixed results, so 15+ minutes of actually working on it on the internet got me nowhere so even if Comlex was open internet I’d probably still miss it, and for another I found that state laws on it vary, so it shouldn’t be tested on a national exam because people may answer based on what they know about the local laws where their residency program is located.
Comlex ftw.