BOARDS READY . . . USMLE BOARDS REVIEW PROGRAM

You will not sit and listen to hours and hours of lectures everyday.  There will be time for class, study and rest.
Our job is to prepare you for the marathon of your life!  We make sure you are trained right!

STEP 1 USMLE PROGRAM
GENERAL DESCRIPTION

 


Boards Ready is now included with our Springfield Family Medicine/Urgent Care Clinic location
so our students are able to get maximum exposure to real medicine!
Boards Ready students also get to participate in our own Mission Clinic that provides free medical, psych and dental
services for the Veterans, homeless and poor of the community.



12 WEEK SEMESTER PROGRAM

Boards Ready is a 12 week, personalized: one on one: USMLE Boards Review Step 1 program.  The ONLY one of its kind!  We have been producing 97% pass rates now for 4 years because of the personalized nature of our program.  We do not herd in as many students as we can fit in!  We are adament about quality and one on one help which is not possible in the programs that allow 100+ students and lecture to them out of books and flip through powerpoints all day!  You will participate, discuss and ask questions at Boards Ready!  Light bulbs will come on, we promise!

Most review programs are only 6 weeks. Boards Ready has seen over and over how unrealistic it is to expect most students to be ready to take Board exams with only 6 weeks of review. We have many students come to us that have taken MORE than one of the "big" 6 week review programs, investing thousands of dollars, that tell us that they didn't know anymore at the end of the programs than they did the first day because of the speed and monotonous hours of boring lectures. 

The most successful students devote an entire semester to prepare for the one exam (Step 1) that will determine the entire future of their life.  It is not an exam to rush, there is no reward for finishing the test first - it is all about the score!  Residency's are extremely competitive today - you must do well on Step 1 if you want to get a residency.  Upon completion of Boards Ready, our students continually comment that for the first time they actually understand, and enjoy medicine!


OPTIONAL 4 WEEK ELECTIVE or CORE CREDIT FOR CLINICAL ROTATIONS IN FAMILY MEDICINE OR URGENT CARE WHEN YOU TAKE THE BOARDS READY STEP 1 REVIEW PROGRAM.

Because Boards Ready has several medical clinics.  It is the only review program that is able to provide students with the option to earn credit for 4 weeks of Elective or Core Clinical Rotations in either Family Medicine or Urgent Care while are in Springfield studying for Step 1.  This requires an affiliation agreement with your school.


INTERACTIVE, FOCUSED LEARNING, VISUALS

DISCUSSIONS, QUESTIONS, HIGH YIELD ONLY

Boards Ready’s unique and successful approach to the USMLE is the only one of its kind available to medical students.  Students will not sit and listen to hours of monotonous daily lectures and powerpoints that cover all material taught from the beginning of basic sciences allowing no time for questions, study or rest. Boards Ready is ONLY focused on key USMLE material.  Because most students are visual learners, the course is heavily designed to provide visual, hands on learning with discussion and questions.  Thus simplifying the material for the Boards so that it becomes realistic to understand, learn and retain. Valuable time is not spent on unnecessary material that is not standard on the Boards.

You will learn: biotstats in a way that you can actually understand and use it, graphs, charts, CT's and MRI's, X-Rays, EKG's.

You WILL become proficient in Pharmacology.  We DO NOT teach you a bunch of mnemonics!  If you think mnemonics is going to help you with Pharm, THINK AGAIN!!  Pharm is intertwined in one way or another in 50% of your Step 1 exam.  If you do NOT know pharm as well as your name, you will NOT pass Step 1.  It is so critical, that we spend 1 full day every week on it! 

Step 1 is NOT just testing your knowledge!  Many very intelligent people FAIL Step 1.  Step 1 is designed to determine IF YOU SHOULD BECOME A DOCTOR!  It is designed TO FAIL YOU!  It is testing FAR more than just knowledge!  It is testing endurance, attention to detail, common sense, reasoning ability, ability to pick yourself up and keep going!  It will find your weakness. At Boards Ready, we will find YOUR weakness and we will work to get rid of it so Step 1 does not have to!

Boards Ready supplies all note taking materials to its students. 

 


"BOUTIQUE" STYLE CLASSES

Typical enrollment for other review programs can be well over 150 students. Boards Ready keeps its classes small so that it insures that each student receives the quality time and attention necessary to be successful. It also insures that the class takes on a “family” atmosphere.  Everyone helping and supporting each other so everyone succeeds.  The relationships created at Boards Ready will certainly provide critical networking in the future.

 


UWORLD & NBME ASSESSMENTS

USMLE QUESTIONS

Each student will be monitored throughout the program so that any weak areas can be
identified and strengthened. 

Students learn endurance at Boards Ready, a MUST for success on the USMLE.  By the end of the course, students will have answered in excess of 7000 questions.

Heavy emphasis is placed on becoming proficient in identifying and focusing on the key
points in the USMLE questions and understanding how the test writers think so that distractors are identified and avoided. We also teach key USMLE subjects at 4 and 5 levels deep as well as study the numerous ways the same question can be asked using different terminology. 

When you finish the course, you WILL think like a doctor and you will be able to correlate every system together along with their pharmacology!

We work HEAVILY on pharmacology! 

Students are evaluated at the beginning and end of the program using the USMLE assessment exams.  Students with successful results are permitted to sit for the USMLE exam.