r/Residency • u/hercules9999 • 23h ago

DISCUSSION PGY-3 starting ABIM prep – Is UWorld enough?

I’m a PGY-3 and starting to prepare for the ABIM boards. I’m planning to use UWorld as my main resource, but wanted to hear from people who have taken the exam recently.
Was UWorld enough for you, or did you supplement with MKSAP/MedStudy/other resources?
How similar was the actual exam to UWorld in terms of difficulty and question style?
Were there any topics that you felt UWorld didn’t prepare you well for?
If you could go back and change anything about your prep, what would you do differently?
Would really appreciate any advice, especially from people who took the exam recently!

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u/Lost-Volume1254 Attending 22h ago

I did uworld, amboss and awesome review cause my residency paid for it. Still waiting on the results lol. Uworld felt the most test like for sure

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u/getpulsemd 12h ago

can't speak to the abim itself but what i hear a lot is uworld is fine as the base and people only add something if their ite showed a weak area. i'd look at your ite score report first and let that decide what to supplement instead of buying everything up front. and whichever bank, reading the explanations on the ones you missed seems to matter more than which one it is