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\u201cPersonally, Med HELP was a life-changing experience.\u00a0 I can see how to pass the next exam, how to keep up with the work, how to reach my goals.\u00a0 Before attending the program, I was feeling quite depressed thinking about studying the same material, the same way, for a third time.\u201d \u2013 Repeating MS-II<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI came to WV last fall, and the Medical HELP team helped me go from a 180 to a 210 on Step 2. I have never been afraid of hard work. You guys showed me how to work smarter. It worked.\u201d \u2013 USMLE Step 2 student<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a great environment with abundant support. I would have been happy with a quarter of what I was given.\u201d \u2013 Repeating MS-I<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest obstacle for me to overcome was my lack of self-confidence.\u00a0 The Medical HELP Program showed me that I was able to learn the material by applying a few simple-once-mastered techniques, and this was a very large part in restoring my self-confidence.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2013 MS-III having problems with shelf exams<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI attended Med HELP the summer before starting medical school because I was worried about some attention issues and an overall lack of study skills. Now I am in my second year of med school and doing great.\u201d \u2013 OMS-II reflecting on her experience with Medical HELP\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI was unable to pass the USMLE Step #1 exam on my first try, so I enrolled in the medical help program to learn new ways to both memorize and quickly recall material. When I took Step #1 for the second time the exam went much smoother, and the results were wonderful. Not only did I pass the exam, but my score improved by 44 points or two standard deviations.\u00a0 According to the book \u2018First Aid For Step #1\u2019 my improvement has a 0% chance of occurring. This success would not be possible without the amazing team at the Marshall Medical Help program.\u00a0 I promise that if you enroll in the program and then give a full effort to both learn the techniques, and then also take the time to implement those techniques afterward then you will find success.\u201d\u00a0 \u2013 MD\/PhD student who attended the program after failing the USMLE Step 1<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things that the Marshall Medical HELP Program did for me that likely gets overlooked (since the study methods, time management techniques, and test-taking methods are so exciting) is that they helped make a logical argument to my medical school\u2019s promotions committee that I should be given a chance to repeat my second year after failing out. The committee liked the idea that I had a plan in place\u2014attending Med HELP (even though they were not familiar with the program)\u2014that would help me change the way I function as a learner, as a student, and as a test-taker. Otherwise I would have just had to go back and work harder, which would have been impossible. Instead, I went back with an entirely redesigned approach to managing the volume required of me, and while it was still hard, it was now manageable. I passed the year, passed Step 1 on the first attempt, and am now doing great on rotations and passing my shelf exams.\u201d \u2013 MS-IV reflecting on his Medical HELP experience <\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cEverything is great.\u00a0 I have about an 80 average overall after one year and did not fail a single test.\u00a0 My first 3 tests (which I failed the first time around) went up 30, 18, and 22 points.\u201d \u2013 Repeating OMS-1\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cToday, I aced my first exam of the year . . . not just an A but a 100%.\u00a0 I have been close a few times this year, but today finally nailed it.\u201d \u2013 Repeating 1st<\/sup> year podiatry student<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Med HELP program came right on time for me. I had just been diagnosed with ADHD and was stuck in my basic science years of med school, completely unorganized and unprepared for how to study effectively. I was good at putting in the time, effort and energy to try and get ahead, but was continuing to fail tests and felt more discouraged about my abilities as a student and future physician. The program helped me realize what I was doing wrong and gave me the tools to fix the problems. I would highly recommend this program.\u00a0My test scores went up, sometimes dramatically so, but the thing that I appreciate most was getting confidence back in my own abilities. I am now in residency and enjoying my career.\u201d \u2013 Attended Medical H.E.L.P. Program between MS-I and MS-II to address academic struggles<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cBefore Medical HELP, I was putting in as much time if not more time than my peers but I was not getting the results. That got me through first year but it all came crashing down in my second year. It turns out I was being really passive and inefficient, but I didn\u2019t know any other way to do it. Med HELP taught me ways to be much, much more focused and how to get more done in less time.\u201d \u2013 Repeating MS-II<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cGreat news. I passed!!! Not only that, I passed with a decent score – 208! I walked out of the exam feeling confident I had passed but was expecting a score below the 200’s. I hadn’t ever scored above a 198 on any of the CBSSA exams. Thanks a million for all the help and insight. What I learned at Marshall will make my shelf exams and Steps 2 & 3 considerably more doable.\u201d \u2013 Retaking USMLE Step 1 after the program<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI just got my passing score of 194, and I wanted you to be one of the first to know!\u00a0 I appreciate your taking the time to help me throughout this process.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t have done it without your help and continuous support and encouragement.\u201d \u2013 Retaking USMLE Step 1 student<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cGuess what? I passed!!!\u00a0 I got a 443 coming from a 302 last time.\u00a0 Is a 141 point improvement from baseline statistically possible?\u00a0 I can\u2019t believe it.\u00a0 I think I\u2019m still in shock!\u00a0 I know how hard I will have to work to make it through each section and pass Level 2, but I also know a better way to study.\u00a0 Just wanted to let you guys know the outcome after so much stress and anxiety.\u201d \u2013 Retaking the COMLEX Level 1<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cMy last rotation was OB\/GYN.\u00a0 If you recall, I failed the mini-board last year, making less than the 10th<\/sup> percentile.\u00a0 I just received my scores and I made the 77th<\/sup> percentile. <\/b>I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the HELP program.\u00a0 I am still using all of the reading techniques you all have taught me.\u00a0 The questions are so much easier to understand. IT REALLY WORKS!!!!\u00a0 And this is proof.\u201d \u2013 Attended program after experiencing problems with shelf exams as an MS-III<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI just wanted to write and let you know that I got my Step 2 CK score back this week, and I passed! I got a 214, which means I didn\u2019t just pass, I actually did it with a respectable margin!\u00a0 Thank you again for all of your help along this journey.\u201d \u2013 USMLE Step 2 student<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI retook USMLE Step II CK and just got my scores back this morning.\u00a0 I passed with an increase in score of 32 points from the last time I took them.\u201d \u2013 USMLE Step 2 student<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cWell what a year it has been. Not going to lie, it was tough. However, thanks to you guys at Med HELP, I finished up with one A, 5 B’s, and one C this past year. This is a vast improvement over the 50-60% that I was I getting prior to the program. The one C was in neuroscience and it was a beast. Going off the numbers, around 25% of the class\u00a0failed, I tried every trick in the book that you all showed me. So I\u2019m not going to be a neurologist, guess there are worse things in life. Other than that, I have had multiple comments this year about how well I have improved over last year. Those thanks are mainly to you! Don\u2019t think I would have made it this far without what you have taught me.\u201d \u2013 Repeating OMS-I<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cTo be able to write this email after so much is, well, one of the best feelings of my life.\u00a0 I found out today that I passed Step 2 of my boards!\u00a0 I can now enter the match to start residency in July.\u00a0 I have worked so hard for this day to come, and it is finally here.\u00a0 I just wanted to share the great news.\u201d \u2013 USMLE Step 2 student<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I first thought about attending the Medical HELP Program, I was more than skeptical, but I was also desperate. I simply did not know how to study or take the test differently in order to demonstrate what I knew. Sometimes hard work just isn\u2019t enough; one has to do it differently. The medical help program teaches how to do it differently.\u00a0 If I had the training they provide when I was an undergraduate or in med school, I would have had less struggles with learning and retaining and demonstrating what I know on standardized exams. I\u2019m extremely happy that I decided to attend. I used these techniques to pass my boards and move on with my career.\u201d \u2013 USMLE Step 2 student<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cGreetings, my friends. I finally made it. I passed the USMLE Step III.\u00a0The Med HELP system works. This really is \u2018Change you can believe in.\u2019 I’m fired up and ready to go. Let’s go conquer the world.\u201d \u2013 Passed USMLE Step 3 after several failed attempts prior to Medical HELP<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cBefore I start, thank you again and again and again and again!!!!\u00a0\u00a0I’m off my cloud a bit but still cannot believe this is off my shoulders.\u00a0\u00a0You do not understand the relief (guess you do). All my career I have struggled with standardized exams, coming really close to passing but not close enough. What always happens is I study really hard for months and months and a few weeks before the exam seem to fall apart thinking. I struggled with it daily for I did not feel like I was doing enough. I set aside from 9pm -1am nightly, for I was done work at 6pm and the baby was in bed by 8pm, more time on the wkends, but seriously, not much more.\u00a0 I gave up the idea of redoing all the material 5 times as I had planned and stuck with just knowing the\u00a0unsure items from each chapter. And by God the unsure\u00a0stuff reappeared and I was able to recall the material on the boards and answer the question with confidence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I did not change answers and if I did not know the material I used your techniques of eliminating answers. I am truly, humbly thankful for your help.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 \u2013 A doctor after retaking her specialty boards<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cThought I would pass along the news that I got my scores last Wednesday and I passed Step 1 228(95).\u00a0\u00a0I am quite certain that this would be a quite different experience had I not found my way to Marshall.\u00a0\u00a0At first glance of my score I was relieved to see “pass” and then I began to tell myself I should have done better than 228 and then I quickly remembered where I have come from in the past 2 years and really embraced my resilience and growth.\u00a0\u00a0I have struggled with standardized tests from the SAT to the MCAT and faced a lot of rejection solely as a result of those scores so it feels amazing to have a score that does not set me apart from the masses and give me something else that must be explained.\u00a0\u00a0I believe that I am truly evidence that the methods really work. Thank you for all of your help and support.\u201d \u2013 Attended program after struggling as MS-I<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cHey everyone!\u00a0 I passed my Surgery mini-board!!\u00a0 My final grade in the course is a 96%. An A!\u201d \u2013 MS-III who attended program because he was failing his shelf exams<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI’m writing to update you on how I’m doing since Med Help, and you can definitely put me in the \u2018success\u2019 column.\u00a0 I started out the year with terrible test anxiety, but it’s pretty much completely dissipated with every success.\u00a0 I finished anatomy with a B (which probably could have been an A if I wasn’t still struggling with lab tests).\u00a0 Even though I did well on my first two tests in anatomy, I still wondered if it was a fluke; I was pretty much waiting for something bad to happen, which I’ll admit is a terrible attitude to have.\u00a0 However, my proudest moment by far was when I got an A on the head and neck exam!\u00a0 That was pretty much the tipping point, and I realized that I can <\/i>get through med school, and that the school didn’t make a mistake letting me in.\u00a0 It was the smartest I had felt in a really long time, and I’ve been doing great ever since. I used to hate school, and now I don’t.\u00a0 I am really happy to be here!\u201d \u2013 Repeating MS-I after returning to school <\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  \u201cPersonally, Med HELP was a life-changing experience.\u00a0 I can see how to pass the next exam, how to keep up with the work, how to reach my goals.\u00a0 Before attending the program, I was feeling quite depressed thinking about studying the same material, the same way, for a third time.\u201d \u2013 Repeating MS-II \u201cI […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-legacy.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-75","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/medhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/medhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/medhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/medhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/medhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/medhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/medhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/medhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}