Jess wrote:
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I would like to thank you for your helpful podcasts and Final Step book. I used the book the night before my IM EOR and ended up seeing several questions on my exam that were testing the exact concepts you went over in the book. There was one learning point in particular that I had never heard before (either in school or on rotations) that was on the exam that you had covered in your book! Anyway, it was a great buy. And I haven’t even gotten to the PANCE part…
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When I wrote The Final Step, I put it together for me. I wrote the same simple one-line questions all throughout PA school. I found it so helpful that when I started studying for my PANRE, I started writing them again.
Having this list of simple, straightforward questions made it so easy and quick to study. I could cover tons of information and then cover it all over again, so that I knew that I knew it.
One thing that surprised me when I started offering the book to the PAER community was how many people used it for EORs as well as the PANCE and the PANRE.
It’s kind of like the podcast. I initially didn’t think about PA students when I started it. I was totally focused on people in my situation. In fact, I was terrified of students, since I figured they knew more medicine than I did. Then I come to find that nurse practitioner students, pharmacy students, and med students are listening to the show. Amazing!
The Final Step will solidify your foundation of medical knowledge. It’s designed so that you know the basics so well, you don’t have to think about them. That’s why it helped on Jess’s EOR. That’s why it helps on the PANRE.
It’s like the multiplication tables from 1 to 12. I remember my green-haired fourth grade teacher drilling those facts into our heads (Okay, she didn’t really have green hair, but she was old, and her dye job was so bad that in the fluorescent light, it looked green). I knew the multiplication tables better than I knew my family’s birthdays. I could do them backwards and forwards, and it was great, because I wasn’t scared of multiplication when more complex equations started showing up.
You shouldn’t even need to think to pull those out of your head, just like the foundational medical information. If you don’t have to think about the foundational stuff, you can spend your limited energy thinking about the hard stuff.
Knowing the material presented in The Final Step will make everything (ok, maybe just medical exams) so much easier.
Take a peek here to find out more:
www.physicianassistantexamreview.com/thefinalstep
Brian Wallace
P.S. A fantastic and fun way to get your hands on a copy of TFS is to set up a group order. You’ll get a major discount for your classmates, AND you’ll you get your copy included in the shipment at NO CHARGE, just for setting it up. It doesn’t take much work. Once we decide to run with it, I’ll set up a special checkout page for your classmates. Then I ship you the books and you hand them out. Hit reply if you think that sounds like something you’d like to check out.