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How Step 2 pattern recognition fooled me into passing

By the end of my Step 2 preparation, I had stopped reading questions the way I once thought doctors were supposed to. I was no longer carefully evaluating full of clinical pictures. I was scanning for fingerprints. A few trigger…

By the end of my Step 2 preparation, I had stopped reading questions the way I once thought doctors were supposed to. I was no longer carefully evaluating full of clinical pictures. I was scanning for fingerprints.

A few trigger words could collapse an entire question into a likely answer before I had fully processed the stem. A young woman with abdominal pain and hypotension. An elderly smoker with painless hematuria. …

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How Step 2 pattern recognition fooled me into passing