Firecrackers report “ridiculously high” USMLE scores all the time, but most don’t share exactly what resources they used, how they used them, when the started using them, or what their NBME practice test scores were leading up to [...]
Firecracker is blowing up! Our rapid growth was just profiled in the Boston Business Journal. Check out the article here.
Thanks to all the firecrackers that made this possible – especially our amazing users! We are a extraordinarily awesome clan of students, physician authors/editors and entrepreneurs. If we keep this up, we will [...]
Our content team has been burning the midnight oil this past week. As you may already know, we recently released brand new content for the clinical vignettes, and today we have added over 1000 quiz questions to go with these new topics. We normally favor an incremental approach to such work, using an awesome cast of authors [...]
One of the respiratory therapists (RTs) is holding the Doppler over the patient’s femoral vein. I can hear the patient’s blood pumping, in time with my hands pumping up and down on his chest. He had coded in the ICU, after we had stabilized him from his motor-vehicle-accident. He was in recovery. His family had [...]
A 42 year old migrant Mexican farm worker comes to the emergency room complaining of fever and chest pain. The pain started 3 days ago and is substernal and does not radiate. As you examine the patient you notice that the pain seems to get worse while he is laying down, and improves somewhat when [...]
It’s July. New interns are trying to figure out how the whole night float thing works, new fourth years are either working hard in away rotations or enjoying some well earned downtime during ‘soft’ rotations, and third years are getting the hang of the wards as their Step 1 scores come trickling in. It’s this [...]
New Gunner Training Reward Program; rewarding USMLE Step 1 and MCAT members for referring friends/classmates.
With August just around the corner I got a bit nostalgic thinking about the start of the academic year A bunch of my friends are just about to start
Gunner Training’s 1-year anniversary, what Gunner has accomplished, what is planned next, and our vision for the future.
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