Creating High-Yield Board Review Sessions: A Faculty Playbook

This workshop will equip educators to create high-impact, system-based review sessions for MS-2 students entering their final pre-clerkship term.

Faculty will learn strategies for using a question-driven, discussion-rich format to integrate basic science and clinical reasoning, reinforce high-yield concepts, and model effective exam-taking approaches.

Through hands-on practice, participants will design a 90-minute session built around 10–15 board-style questions, structured to maximize engagement, retrieval practice, cross-disciplinary connections, and learner confidence as students transition toward Step 1 preparation and clerkship readiness.

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1. Outline historic USMLE Step 1 performance at WSU and compare local trends with national averages to contextualize the need for high-yield, board-style review sessions.
2. Identify key evidence from the medical education literature supporting the use of faculty-modeled MCQ reasoning in pre-clerkship teaching.
3. Explain the theoretical frameworks—such as retrieval practice, cognitive load theory, and worked examples that underpin the effectiveness of polling and faculty-guided MCQ practice.
4. Develop and deliver a standardized, high-yield 80-minute review session by selecting high-quality NBME-style questions from UWorld, creating one-slide explanation decks, and facilitating active learning through polling, retrieval practice, and structured question debriefing.

The Washington State University (WSU) Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Participants should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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The material presented in this continuing medical education program is being made available for educational purposes only. This material is not intended to represent the best or only methods or procedures appropriate for the medical situation discussed; rather the material is intended to present an approach, view, statement, or opinion of the authors or presenters, which may be helpful or of interest to other practitioners. This program does not represent or speak on behalf of Washington State University and/ or Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine. Participants should carefully consider all available scientific data before acting on knowledge gained through this activity.

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