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Kaplan Medical has helped tens of thousands of medical students and doctors from all across the country and even across the world realize their dream of becoming practicing physicians in the United States.

For more than 30 years, Kaplan Medical has been dedicated to helping medical students and doctors prepare and pass a series of exams known as the United States Medical Licensure Exam (USMLE).

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 From medical licensure exams to residency to a career in health sciences, Kaplan Medical is the nation’s leading provider of test preparation for the USMLE, NCLEX, NAPLEX, and more.

To assist in their preparation for this critical four part exam series, Kaplan Medical offers a wide variety of courses and product offerings that include everything from online Question Banks filled with thousands of USMLE exam-style questions to live lectures and even all-encompassing retreat style seminars. In addition, a dedicated staff of expert educators and faculty ensures that all students of Kaplan Medical get the proper guidance and attention that they need in order to go on to successful careers in medicine.

At Kaplan Medical, our students' success is our goal.

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SANITY CHECK

                                                                   C=MD
After the exhilaration of orientation week comes the hard reality of what it's going to be like just surviving in medical school. Your days are filled with hours of fast-paced lectures delving into mysteries of human anatomy and biochemistry to a level undreamt of before. Then labs, with the nagging feeling that everyone knows what they're looking at except you. You almost welcome the first exams, because this is where you'll really show one and all (including yourself) that you belong in med school. But what happens if you don't ace the exams? Is this objective evidence that you weren't cut out for a career in medicine?

Saying pre-meds are competitive is like saying water is wet. Those who survive the process and win acceptance to medical school rightly feel a huge sense of relief as well as excitement. The prolonged effort required to get in and the joy of being accepted, however, leave many first year med students in a particularly vulnerable state. Once med school begins, most assume that maintaining that same level of effort will automatically bring success. Unfortunately, most will discover that while they excelled as pre-meds, as medical students they are now merely middle-of-the-pack average. The reason lies in the numbers game. If only 1 in 4 applicants are accepted to med school, this means that more than 75% of your classmates in pre-med courses were not as academically strong as you are. Once you're in, though, you are competing only with that elite group who also got in. Add to this the fact that medical school exams tend to teach and assess material in much greater detail, and you begin to understand why so many first year med students will be disappointed by their med school exam performance. More material, stronger competition, less time to master the content–this is the mix that requires a realistic re-appraisal about what it means to be successful.

Ultimately, most students will adjust their expectations, but secretly wonder if they might hurt someone because they forgot or never learned some important detail. In time, most med students will come to realize that med school is a whole new ball game. Making A's on exams doesn't guarantee good clinical performance. Understanding basic mechanisms and key principles is crucial to developing the ability to apply what you know to real patients. Helping a classmate understand cell biology strengthens your own knowledge base. So C=MD isn't a cop out at all, not if it means that you have made the transition from nerd pre-med to medical colleague-in-training. Welcome to being "just average" in a field of stars, friend!