First: Book a free consultation
During the consultation, we will set up a study plan, set expectations and answer any questions you have about the exam or study process.
Additionally, I will ask you to do a few questions so I can identify your strengths and weaknesses to help set up your study plan.
At the end of the consultation, we will discuss the plan going forward, how often we should meet and pricing for tutoring.
How does this Process Work?
Daily Check ins
I will expect you to let me know what you did everyday. This could be telling me how you did on your blocks or what you studied. Either way, it keeps you accountable and on track knowing that you need to report to me on a daily basis.
This also lets me know if our study plan is not working. If I notice that you are not meeting the expectations we set during the consultation session, we will meet again for another consultation to adjust the plan.
Tutoring
This is where we meet and discuss a topic or subject of your choosing and how to approach and answer questions.
For more information about tutoring, please see below.
Take the Exam!
Once you reach an acceptable level of scores in your practice exams, we will figure out when you will do the exam.
What type of tutoring sessions do I offer?
You decide what we cover. Typically, there are 2 popular approaches my previous students have used:
TOpic(S) approach
If you have a topic or a number of different topics that you want me to help explain to you and approach their questions, this is the session for you.
For example, you can ask me to cover how to localize strokes. During this session, I will explain the classic patterns the USMLE likes to bring and how to differentiate them.
An example for multiple topics would be hemolytic anemias, pulmonary hypertension, and MEN syndromes. While they have nothing to do with each other, we will go through each one and try to see where your weaknesses are.
Regardless of how many topics and which ones you choose, we will go over the material together and then answer standardized USMLE questions about those topics from reputable question banks. While answering questions, we will work on your approach to questions.
Subject/System Approach
If you have a specific subject or system you want us to go through from the ground up, this is the approach you want.
This is for students beginning to prepare for their exams or a subject that has always eluded a student.
For example, you want us to go through all of Cardiology for Step 1. We will begin with cardiac physiology (preload, afterload, cardiac output, etc.), then go into different murmurs and their physiology, arrythmias and antiarrhythmics, cardiomyopathies, congenital heart diseases, vascular pathologies, and pericardial diseases.
Obviously this will covered in multiple sessions.
At the end of each session, we will finish by answer standardized USMLE questions about what we just discussed and previously covered from reputable question banks.
How Do I Tutor?
Microsoft onenote
I utilize Microsoft OneNote as a virtual white board. There I can draw mind maps, diagrams, and display images to help explain complicated topics. As we go along in the session, you are invited and encouraged to take screen shots of the notes we make.
Mind Mapping
Mind maps allows me to explain and simplify complicated topics into important points that are easy to follow along and connect to each other.
No slides or powerpoint presentations
I cannot over emphasize this point enough. I will never use slides or a power point presentation to teach. I believe it’s a very poor way to tutor, whether 1 on 1 or in group sessions.
Diagrams
Most of my approaches to different topics are through diagrams. It allows us to visualize what to do next on a question and what they might ask you to answer.
Standarized USMLE Questions
At the end of our session, I will pull questions from different reputable USMLE Question Banks that will test your understanding of what we discussed and let me improve your approach on different styles of questions the USMLE usually uses.