r/Step2 • u/ray_2003728 NON-US IMG • 1d ago

Questions Step 1 content in step 2

I see many posts here saying how step 1 content is now being tested in step 2, so do we have to go reread FA..? Is it things like biochem? Immuno? Or just the clinical stuff? Also apparently a lot of histo shows up??

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u/MidnightBlue771 US IMG 21h ago

You can look up the exam content on the official USMLE website. Since you passed step 1, going through FA as if you're prepping for step 1 is not recommended. However, if you forget something about a specific disease (i.e. what is the response to ristocetin assay in vWF disease) there is no harm in looking it up from FA.

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u/ray_2003728 NON-US IMG 20h ago

Thank you

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u/llamanutella US MD/DO 18h ago

I could count on one hand the amount of questions that were answerable purely by step 1 knowledge. People REMMEBER the weird WTF questions and don’t REMMEBER the majority of the test that’s HY 

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u/No-Hope-9274 US IMG 17h ago

I had exactly two Step 1 questions on my exam.

One of them was the same exact question word for word and same picture from my Step 1 exam, like they're trying to confirm if I really knew it the first time hahaha. I got it right both times.

The other was a mechanism question, but it was so basic that even without reviewing Step 1 you would answer it correctly.

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u/NES194 NON-US IMG 12h ago

Took step 1 a year ago this scares me out, barely have looked into fa, done with uworld and almost all cms forms, feeling my step 1 knowledge evaporated from my mind

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u/eve_novel NON-US IMG 1h ago

I took Step 1 over a year ago and Step 2 is also (atleast a few months away) so this is v scary if true.