With regards to the IM shelf, is there a significant amount of biostats/epidemiology questions?
Secondly, I've always read not to use your step 1 notes to study for step 2. Does this principle apply to the concepts in biostats? I took a crapton of notes (i.e. I did the Taus Method) from First Aid/HY Behavioral/uworld while studying for step1 and wasn't sure if it would be beneficial to look at.
Thanks!
Posted Nov 16, 2014, 11:04 PM UTC
I can only speak of my IM shelf (taken in October) but there was maybe 1-2 epi questions. They were simple concepts and required no calculations from what I remember.
Biostats in my experience was tougher on Step 2 than on Step 1 (but not covered at all on my particular shelf). The questions that I had were about knowing how to calculate differences in post-test probability given different pre-test probabilities - and evaluating which testing modality out of a number of given choices with defined sensitivity and specificity were most appropriate.
I had 1 on my shelf. It was no more difficult than what was covered in U World.