Official Neurology Shelf Exam Discussion and Resource Thread

Took the shelf recently. It was BRUTAL. For a lot of questions I could only narrow down to two, and then had to guess.

What I did to prep:
- Blueprints- made my own notes and read them x3; it's not too detailed and easy to get through. I don't think this is essential, but would recommend if you're someone like me who needs a primary text source
- Did all 500 questions of pre-test (Highly recommended)
- UWorld: all the neuro questions (141) + ophthalmology and HEENT sections in IM (highly recommended)
- Perused over neuro, MSK, and psych section of FA x1 (highly recommended)
- Both NBME exams (highly recommended)

Would recommend Pre-Test, UWorld, and NBME (NBME did a good job of capturing the randomness and difficulty of the exam). Blueprints is a good starting point, but I definitely felt like it didn't prepare me for the shelf as well as SUTM did for IM, Surgical Recall and Pestana for Surg, or FA for Peds. I would highly recommend reading over MSK, ophthalmology, and HEENT (I had a ton of vertigo/hearing loss/tinnitus questions) before the exam because my shelf was quite heavy on these items. Didn't have any psych on mine. Or ethical questions.

Feel like I bombed it since our rotation was quite short, and I don't think I had enough time to process all the stuff I did, but will update once score comes out.

Raw score: 86 --> 91th percentile.

Reflection: Would definitely read up on MSK had I known both nervous system & special senses, and diseases of MSK are tested.

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Official Neurology Shelf Exam Discussion and Resource Thread