 Hey everyone, my name is Tocsadabayo and I'm a third year medical student at State University. I'm looking towards either vascular surgery or orthopedic surgery, but right now I'm kind of on the side here. So I found out about MedSmart through my school. Usually when you graduate, move on from basic sciences to clinical sciences, you have an exit interview. And one of the options that was available to me was to do a review program. So MedSmart was one of the programs that I looked into doing. I took the Step 1 program. I had classes from Monday to Friday. They were from 9 a.m. to around 3 p.m. Class was usually one-hour sessions with 10-minute breaks. And then break time, you can do anything you want. You can go out, get water, walk around kind of thing. But then when you came back from break, you had like a five-minute like question and answer sessions. And then the teacher would kind of figure out if he knew what the answer was. And then you had that back and forth for around like 10 minutes or so. And then after that, you move on to the next topic. You had classes over around 3 p.m. and you had the rest of the day to study your own. Each topic was around two or three days. So after two or three days, you would have a quiz over what you studied the Friday after. And so the quiz was around 20 questions or so. And they're kind of like, see if you knew the topic really well, right? So like, if I had my butt handed to me on the quiz, I would go home that day and study that topic so I was ready to move on to the next topic. So what I really liked most about the course was the personal approach. The teachers were really engaging and they were really interested in me doing well in the course. If I had any questions or if I had any trouble with anything, I was able to go to them and have whatever questions I had answered. And everyone was like super friendly and everyone was super supportive and just kind of like pushing you along the way, you know. So talk to me a little bit about how prepared you were before the course and then how you felt afterwards. So before the course, I had a little bit of knowledge about everything but I didn't really know everything really well. So I feel like comments of this course like helped me just increase my knowledge in being able to apply that knowledge to different scenarios. Like especially in question tackling. So when you see a big block of questions, you were like, you get nervous, you get scared like, oh, what do I do kind of thing. But the test strategies that I learned here, I was able to tackle a block of questions. Like, okay, I know this question. I don't have to be scared, I don't have to be nervous. I can use my time to do other things that are more important. Yes, after the course, I was really excited I passed that one. I would recommend MedSmarter. I think it's a great program. I feel like everyone needs a program that goes through like kind of what you've learned over the first two years of medical school. It's a lot of information and not everyone knows like 100% of it when you finish your first two years of school. But I feel like programs like these are really helpful and just like kind of let you connect the dots in a way, you know, and if like MedSmarter is really good at that point because here you get that attention that you need and you have that like focus, you know, like it's only six to seven weeks of like classes like 93 every day kind of thing. But you get that approach, you get that personal attention, you get those teachers who were right there with you. You're going to be like your support system, your mentors, you know, everything you need. So future students definitely come here, definitely take this course. If you get ready for step one, step two, step three, whatever, medical hurdle, you have to like kind of conquer. But if you're going to take the course here, I feel like the best thing for you to do is to like let go of any distractions because I feel like I will come here. They have to have stuff going home, stuff going on like, I don't know, anywhere. But it's just like you're going to come here, you've got to be focused and be able to like tackle whatever you have to do. Because step one, all the steps are really, they're, they can kick your butt. I feel like MedSmarter provides an environment that helps you forget about distractions and kind of focus and studying. The center is really nice. The facilities are super nice. Every morning I'll come here. I'll have coffee the first thing in the morning. Kind of get my day started and outside is really nice. Like right now is summertime, so you can go out for walks. It's a park across the street, so like I would go play basketball sometimes. And I got really bored here on Saturdays, but yeah, it's a nice place. Everyone should come on.