Drinox, I'm an IMG and in my country pretty much every graduate who attempts the USMLE is in the same boat as you ie they remember next to nothing of their basic sciences years.
The "formula" that works extremely well here is:
1. Kaplan lectures notes. These aren't very popular in the USA, but they're better than other review books at explaining things in a simple fashion.
2. Pathoma for pathology.
3. UWorld, usually twice. Not everyone does a second qbank, but if they do, its Kaplan. Rx sees next to no use here (but this isn't to say its a bad qbank).
4. First Aid.
5. That wayne university site for radiology and webpath/goljan slides/pathoma slides for histopathology.
The general method is to go over Kaplan once while watching the video lectures. Some watch all, others only watch areas that trouble them (I personally only watched pathoma and behav sciences). Regardless, if you're disciplined and can speed up the lectures to 1.5x or something, they shouldn't take long at all. Furthermore, don't make it a point to write down every single thing they say; their purpose is only to explain whats in your books. If, despite the videos you don't understand something, use the internet. Wikipedia, google, whatever. You won't really need textbooks.
After this people go over Kaplan again, this time reading the relevant FA section as well, followed by UWorld, all subject wise. Eg you go over Kaplan physio, then read all of FA physio, then do all of UWorlds physio questions, writing down whatever you feel is necessary.
Once all subjects have been finished in this manner, you move onto just memorizing FA and their UWorld notes, nothing else. This last push is interspersed with NBMEs and, for some people, another full attempt at UWorld. During this final 2 month period people manage going through FA at least 3+ times.
With this method, people here regularly score 250+, with a fair number of 260+ scores as well. And these are people who are clueless about basic sciences when they start out. People scoring under 240 are generally those who have cut corners. So just make sure you don't do that (like the guy a couple of weeks back talking about skipping mycology).
To summarize:
Kaplan + (select) videos --> Kaplan/FA/Uworld subject wise --> FA + Uworld + NBMEs till exam day
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Step 1 from scratch.
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