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For IMGs with days, not weeks, left before Step 2 CK, and a feed full of "must-do" resources.
By Dr. Marish Asudani · Published
Treat last minute as your final week and open nothing new. Use 5 resources: AJmonics, about 200 questions per system with every unknown screenshotted; the Divine Intervention must-do PDF; every card of the Step 2 CK NBME Booster Anki on usmlevault.com; Mehlman for your weak systems; and Dr. High Yield for fast recall. These are more than enough.
Read this firstThe last-minute mistake I see most is buying a new question bank, or starting a course someone posted about, in the final week. Nothing new gets opened. Each section below says what the resource is and exactly how to use it when the days are short.
If you still have a full week and you've followed a plan, the full checklist is here: The week before Step 2 CK →
What it is: roughly 2-hour compilations of about 200 questions per video, per system, free on YouTube. Dense, rapid-fire question review.
How to use it last minute: your weakest systems first. For every question or concept you don't know, take a screenshot and drop it in a folder for that system. That folder is something you revise, not something you build and forget. Use AJmonics late, once the reasoning is already there, and in your final week it is.
▶AJmonics · COMPLETE Step 2 ReviewPlaylist. 1 video per system. ▶AJmonics · Complete Review for USMLE Steps 2 & 3Playlist. Same format, if you're taking Step 3 next.What it is: the podcast is enormous, and most of it isn't your priority in the last week. So I put the must-do episodes into 1 free PDF: the Final Month Divine Intervention PDF, with all of his high-yield podcasts, the exact episodes worth your last week and last month, plus a high-yield risk-factor PDF.
How to use it last minute: only the episodes in the PDF. Listen on walks, on the commute, in the gym. If you play the Free 120 episodes, solve your own Free 120 offline first. How I use Divine for Step 2 →
↓HY Divine Intervention podcasts for the last week / last monthFree PDF. No sign-up, no email. ▶Divine Intervention · USMLE Step 2CKPlaylist. Play only the episodes the PDF names.Free Step 2 PDFs in the Vault UniversityThe high-yield PDFs from my Step 2 folder, free. Opens on the Resources tab.
Open the PDFs →What it is: the Step 2 CK NBME Booster Anki on usmlevault.com. Cards built from NBME 9 to 16 and the Free 120, across 16 systems, and you can filter them by the 18 question types the NBME asks, like next best step.
How to use it last minute: revise all of the cards, system by system, every day of the last week. Every card you miss goes onto your 1 final note for the eve.
Open the Step 2 CK NBME Booster AnkiEvery card, system by system. Filter by next best step or most likely diagnosis. Opens straight into the Step 2 CK decks.
Open the deck →What it is: free, dense playlists, and the fastest way to close a weak system.
How to use it last minute: 1 day per system, videos while you review your notes. Anything repetitive, anything you don't understand, anything you want to remember goes straight into your primary notes in 1 to 2 lines. No separate Mehlman notebook.
▶Mehlman · Internal medicinePlaylist ▶Mehlman · PediatricsPlaylist ▶Mehlman · SurgeryPlaylist ▶Mehlman · OB/GYNPlaylistLast minute, Mehlman is for your weak systems only. If a system is already strong, leave it. How to use Mehlman →
What it is: concise, high-yield videos built for rapid recall. Especially valuable if you feel stuck on a score plateau.
How to use it last minute: a fast morning pass on the system you're revising that day, alongside Mehlman and AJmonics.
▶Dr. High Yield · Internal MedicinePlaylist ▶Dr. High Yield · All videosPlaylist. Pick the system you're revising that day.The week before Step 2 CK — the full 6-thing checklist.
24 hours before Step 2 CK — the eve, hour by hour.
10 Step 2 CK videos instead of brainrot — every video, with when to watch it.
Step 2 CK: the 6 resources — why, how and when for each one.
Last minute? The Step 1 edition — the sibling page.