When it comes to USMLE prep, Kaplan USMLE stands out as the industry leader. Kaplan's Step 1, Step 2 CK, Step 2 CS and Step 3 prep courses include excellent content and quality materials for all in-person, live online and on demand options. Comprehensive course materials, including instructional lectures and/or videos, question banks, practice exams, and lecture notes give US and international students access to a wealth of material to prepare them to master the USMLE exams.
USMLE Step 1 Lecture Videos Kaplan
During the course, professors from the Kaplan Medical Review program visit the UMHS South Portland, ME campus to cover various high yield subjects including Biochemistry, Immunology, Microbiology, Physiology, Pharmacology, Genetics and Pathology. Post lecture Q & A sessions, a self-assessment online exam for each subject, online content consisting of a set of subject-based videos, Kaplan Q bank, and simulated exams are also available. A study break is scheduled at the end of the Kaplan Medical Review program for students to prepare to sit for the 8-hour Kaplan qualifying exam.
The course starts with a quick series of intro videos and a diagnostic exam. The videos basically just welcome you to the course, explain how whichever step of the USMLE you are on works, gives a few test strategies, and so on. Fairly basic and straightforward stuff. You then take a diagnostic test, which is shorter than a real exam and sets your baseline knowledge, as well as identifies your weaknesses.
The videos almost exclusively take the form of a PowerPoint video. Meaning your lecturer gives their lesson verbally over a series of slides onscreen. As they speak, slides roll across the screen and they occasionally make notes in red or blue ink directly on the slides. Rarely, some of the videos will cut to an instructor on camera, but these are far and few between. Much more often, these videos just feature the relevant slides onscreen and your instructor lectures right over them.
This Step 1 app gives students access to their Qbank, but not video lectures. That is a bit of a bummer, but I will note that the video lectures are mobile friendly, so you can stream live online classes or watch on demand videos from your phone all the same.
The videos are typically between 2-15 minutes, depending on the complexity topic, which seems an appropriate length. Clicking on the videos opens them in a separate tab, which shows their custom video player. Speed is adjustable, though there are not many options available (0, 1, 1.5, 2X) and there are captions available (though they obscure part of the slides). The videos are in a lecture format, typically in the form of static slides with narration. 2ff7e9595c
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