A quick post to share the outline of the Step 2 notes that I’ve been working on for months. Since I can’t share the notes themselves (due to copyright reasons), I thought perhaps the outline will help those who want to make their own notes.
I made a FULL tutorial on how to set up the sidebar by yourself, so you don’t need to use this outline; you can make the navigation panel on any of your own Word documents. The link to that tutorial is here, with an accompanying YouTube video! Be sure to watch it to learn how to make your own. Even if you just download my template for use, I think the video can still be helpful to show you how to easily format it to your liking.
My Step 2 CK study approach can be seen here; I decided to make my own notes because I ended up not liking any of the books out there. I hope this is a good way to go, but I can’t be entirely sure until I’ve finished with my exam. I don’t necessarily recommend that you make your own notes – it’s up to you to decide what’s best for you!
I organized my notes based on systems and specialties, and I made separate subheadings for the topics that I felt came up frequently (like physiological changes in pregnancy, acid base disturbances in nephrology, etc.). By clicking on the subheadings on the left side, I can simply jump to that topic and add my notes, or I can use the ctrl+f function to find certain things based on keywords.
In case you do want to make your own notes, here’s a glimpse of mine, maybe it’ll be insightful:
The font I use and have fallen in love with is AVENIR. It’s free and should be in your own Microsoft Word, but if not, you can also find it for free online.
For the outline (a Word .docx file), follow the link and simply download. It should be free and be editable; let me know if you have any issues. This is simply a TEMPLATE, and not my actual notes – sorry if that wasn’t clear previously.
Good luck with your studies!
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[…] – the gold standard for Step 2CK, so it is logical to assume that it would be useful for rotations too! I did most (95%) of UWorld questions for OBGYN before starting my rotation, and I think it helped a lot! I did these questions months ago, so before the rotation started I just reread my notes (to read about how I took notes for Step 2CK, click here). […]
Hello! I am just having a little trouble downloading the template. There is an error – ‘ge.tt refused to connect’ that keeps popping up.
Thank you so much for this resource! really appreciate it:)
I’m really excited about trying the note template. However the Jumpshare link isn’t working due to exceeded bandwidth. Do you have any other links?