All statements about USMLE

35 statements about USMLE in 15 sources, by upload date.

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2020

2020-04-14 · Study With Me in the French Alps - USMLE Preparation — announcement: Ali: Asked to share his USMLE notes in Notion, Ali says he will share them when they are good enough, though copyright is an issue with sharing them publicly. — creator comment
2020-04-14 · Study With Me in the French Alps - USMLE Preparation — Ali starts preparing for the USMLE, the medical exam taken by US medical students, because he is toying with the idea of applying to the US for residency. (hedged) — 00:02:00
2020-04-14 · Study With Me in the French Alps - USMLE Preparation — recommendation: Ali begins the First Aid textbook for the USMLE with its table of contents, which he calls the most important page of any textbook. — 00:02:29
2020-04-14 · Study With Me in the French Alps - USMLE Preparation — Ali sets up his retrospective revision timetable in Notion: a table with the main topics in one column, the date he first studies each in the second, the date of the second study in the third, colour-coded. — 00:02:29
2020-04-14 · Study With Me in the French Alps - USMLE Preparation — Ali: Flicking through the first chapters of First Aid, Ali finds that most of it is material he once knew and will just have to relearn. — 00:02:58
2020-04-14 · Study With Me in the French Alps - USMLE Preparation — Ali creates toggles in Notion for the main USMLE topics so that, when he comes to study each subject, he immediately has a big-picture understanding of it. — 00:02:58
2020-04-14 · Study With Me in the French Alps - USMLE Preparation — Ali: The USMLE Step 1 subreddit points Ali to a few pre-made Anki decks for the exam. — 00:03:57
2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali, living in the UK since 2003, is contemplating living in another country: he would like to try America, Australia and New Zealand, and likes the idea of Hong Kong, South Korea and Argentina. — 00:24:53
2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali would love to collaborate with Thomas Frank and Matt D'Avella; one big reason he wants to live in the US for a while is that it unlocks collabs with many of his internet friends. — 00:25:55
2020-05-26 · Studying, Cooking and Netflix · Day in the Life During Lockdown — Ali Abdaal (channel): Asked whether Ali will take the USMLE or the MRCP, the channel says he is not sure yet. (unsure) — creator comment
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: While travelling Ali planned to prepare for the USMLE, the US medical licensing exam, partly because he likes exams and wants to relearn medicine, but mainly to keep open the option of moving to the US. — 00:05:20
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: Getting into American medicine means taking the USMLE exams, Step 1 and Step 2 CK and CS, but Ali likes taking exams, so this does not count against America. — 00:13:27
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: Studying explicitly for the USMLE would benefit Ali's channel, giving him study-with-me and revision content: a synergy few USMLE candidates have. — 00:14:10
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: The process apparently takes about two years: Ali hopes to take the USMLE between December 2020 and February 2021 and maybe be in America around 2022. (hedged) — 00:18:09
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali is partly sitting the USMLE because he misses studying; his brother's cynical view is that the exam fills the void of having no job from August. — 00:20:22
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — Ali: Travelling for six months might give him more value, Ali admits, but he is fairly risk-averse and likes the security blanket of preparing for an exam such as the USMLE. — 00:21:12
2020-07-03 · I'm Moving to America 🇺🇸 - Life Update — announcement: Ali's current plan: prepare for the USMLE, which he has started, ramp up once his job ends in August 2020, then aim for an emergency medicine residency in America, always subject to change. — 00:31:36
2020-07-13 · What We Learnt In 2 Years of Being Doctors - Deep Dive with Molly Hunt — Ali is thinking of specialising in emergency medicine. — 00:26:22
2020-07-13 · What We Learnt In 2 Years of Being Doctors - Deep Dive with Molly Hunt — recommendation: Ali: For finals Anki decks Ali recommends the USMLE decks, especially AnKing version 7, which suits most medical schools even if you are not taking the USMLE. — 00:28:44
2020-08-06 · My Last Day as a Doctor - Reflections — Ali: A move to America would take at least two or three years of applications and Ali has not fully decided on it; for the next few months to a year he will prepare for the USMLE, the US medical exam. — 00:03:42
2020-08-11 · Study with Me - Hustle & Chill — Ali is preparing for USMLE Step 1 because he is vaguely considering moving to America for his medical residency. (hedged) — 00:00:00
2020-08-11 · Study with Me - Hustle & Chill — Ali's friend Osaid, also preparing for the USMLE, joins him for a group study session; for an hour they work through AMBOSS question-bank questions and get less than 10% right. — 00:03:21
2020-09-18 · The 5 Magical Apps That Changed My Life — Ali uses Notion while preparing for the USMLE, the US medical exam, and he has been live-streaming his study for it on Twitch every morning. — 00:07:05
2020-09-27 · Collecting My Tesla Model 3 - Day In The Life — Ali Abdaal (channel): Asked whether Ali plans to move to the US soon, the channel answers: not anytime soon. — creator comment
2020-12-13 · Love, Money and Relationships - Answering your Assumptions — Ali is having second thoughts about moving to America. — 00:28:27
2020-12-17 · Stress, Regrets and Inspirations - Q&A with Kharma Medic — Ali loves Kharma Medic's USMLE videos, which help him as he prepares for the USMLE himself. — 00:09:07
2020-12-17 · Stress, Regrets and Inspirations - Q&A with Kharma Medic — Ali: Studying for the USMLE with Anki, Ali knows what a flashcard says when it is phrased that way but could not say in real life what microscopic polyangiitis is: he has no way of integrating its 18 flashcards into a coherent picture. — 00:12:25
2020-12-17 · Stress, Regrets and Inspirations - Q&A with Kharma Medic — Ali has made a half-hour video on why he is interested in residency in the US; in essence, he thinks it would be more of an adventure. — 00:19:12
2020-12-17 · Stress, Regrets and Inspirations - Q&A with Kharma Medic — Kharma Medic takes USMLE Step 1 to keep his options open: it puts him on the path to practising medicine in the US or Canada, while he still works towards staying in the UK. — 00:19:34
2020-12-31 · I WAS WRONG - How I Set Goals — Ali: One of Ali's goals is to train in emergency medicine and maybe work abroad, outside the UK. (hedged) — 00:08:14

2019

2019-02-14 · Valentine’s Day Live Stream — Ali does not wish he were a doctor in America: if he wanted that, he would take the USMLE and go, but he does not want that kind of life. — 00:21:53

2018

2018-06-12 · Live Stream - Tuesday Evening Hangout — Ali thought about taking the USMLE, which his mother really wanted, but decided against it because he really likes the UK and because of medical technology. — 00:16:36
2018-06-12 · Live Stream - Tuesday Evening Hangout — Ali: To work in medicine in the US after medical school in the UK you must take the USMLE, the biggest barrier, and have references, Ali says. — 00:25:28
2018-06-12 · Live Stream - Tuesday Evening Hangout — Ali: The UK MLA will be like the USMLE, Ali says: an exam every final-year medical student takes, probably written and multiple choice, which might set national rankings; the full details are not known yet. (hedged) — 00:38:54
2018-08-20 · Studying Medicine in Eastern Europe - A comprehensive guide — Abdullah: A European medical degree is accepted throughout the EU, where doctors can work without passing entrance exams; the UK will have the UK MLA, and for the US there is the USMLE. — 00:30:24