HIGH-YIELD STEP 1 + COMLEX REVIEW
YEAR 2 | PAGE 26H - NEUROLOGY / PSYCHIATRY BOARD TRANSFER + READINESS
CURRENT EXAM EMPHASIS USMLE Step 1 groups Behavioral Health + Nervous Systems/Special Senses at 10-14%; Behavioral Sciences has 10-15% discipline overlap and foundational-science application is 60-70%. COMLEX Level 1 assigns a 10% minimum to Nervous System and Mental Health.
- USMLE official
- Question formats
- NBOME Level 1
- COMLEX blueprint
1
| Top NBME Concepts - Neurology (Step 1) - HyGuru | ~1 hr 26 |
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| Active-recall board review of hematomas/herniation, cranial nerves, MS, dementia, neurocutaneous disease, tumors and stroke. |
2
| Top NBME Concepts - Psychiatry (Step 1) - HyGuru | ~1 hr 10 |
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| Board-oriented timelines and differentiators for mood, psychotic, eating and substance-use disorders plus lithium and common pharmacology traps. |
3
| Stroke Syndromes - Ninja Nerd | ~1 hr 17 |
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| Targeted repair when vascular-territory localization remains weak after Qbank/self-assessment review. |
4
| Seizures + Status Epilepticus - Ninja Nerd | ~1 hr 41 |
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| Deep mechanism and semiology repair for recurrent seizure-classification, EEG and emergency-management misses. |
5
| Dopamine Pathways, Antipsychotics + EPS - Dirty Medicine | targeted |
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| Compact final-pass psychopharmacology review; useful after deeper mechanism mastery, especially EPS/NMS/prolactin pathway questions. |
G. PRACTICE + READINESS - INTENTIONALLY NOT VIDEO
| Resource | Best use |
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| UWorld Step 1 | Primary transfer for localization, neuro pathology/pharm, psychiatric diagnosis timelines and mechanism-based adverse effects. |
| AMBOSS USMLE | Targeted repair with neuroanatomy, imaging, differential tables, psych criteria and medication cross-links. |
| NBME CBSSA / CBSE | Official-style calibration. Classify misses by localization, disease mechanism, psychiatry timeline, pharmacology or safety. |
| TrueLearn + NBOME | COMLEX-formatted transfer across nervous system/mental health, pharmacology, communication/professionalism and osteopathic framing. |
G. PRACTICE + READINESS - INTENTIONALLY NOT VIDEO — PROFESSIONAL-EXAM MASTERY GATE
Board-ready: localize first; interpret vascular, seizure, demyelinating, movement, NMJ and neurodegenerative clues; apply psychiatric timelines and safety exclusions; and choose neuro/psych therapy by mechanism while recognizing the adverse effect or interaction that makes a distractor wrong.