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massive question bank in the USMLE Step 1 being uploaded this weekend

kiran — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:25:05 +0000

We’ve just started updating our USMLE sections with great content that’s been whetted by doctors from the US. You should already be seeing over 400 new questions in the USMLE Step 1. We’re also adding content to Step 2 this week. All this great content for absolutely FREE!

Ace your exams and Luck with your match…

from the team @ xamcram

230 quality questions added for MRCP 1

kiran — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:03:27 +0000

We’ve added 230 quality questions with detailed references and explanations for the MRCP 1 memberships. Yes, They’re still absolutely FREE!

Click here to go directly to the questions…

New expert content added for the USMLE Step 1

kiran — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:01:54 +0000

We’ve added 250 quality questions with detailed references and explanations for the USMLE Step 1 exams.

Click here to go directly to the questions…

Feedback recieved and actioned on….

kiran — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:58:42 +0000

We’ve been hearing from a lot of active users and many requested a change in the question creation interface and additions of a small number of features that would make it easier for them to use xamcram and speed up the learning and sharing process on the site.

We’ve added the following features this release:

New Question Creation forms which are much easier to use
Ability to share your questions with friends easily after you have created them on xamcram
See activity on the questions you created
View the popularity of the questions you created
Our admins now have the ability to help with moderating questions
Our top contributors showcased on the home page of xamcram - This is a BIG Thank You from us to You.
Recently created questions shown on each subjects dashboard

Our community is now close to 5000 doctors strong and we’re happy that you chose xamcram as the place to collaborate and learn for your post-doc exams.

Thanks!

The Xamcram Team

the USMLE question bank bailout package

kiran — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:37:19 +0000

In the spirit of the times we live in, our friends in the US have been clamoring for a question bank bailout for the USMLE’s Step 1 & 2.

We’ve been working in the background with doctors in the US to put together a great starting batch of questions and we just went live with both USMLE Step 1 and USMLE Step 2. There are over 500 well researched and written questions available to you for FREE.

We’ve also tweaked our infrastructure to support the load of users we expect to see for the USMLE’s. In other words… we’re excited and well setup to grow this community of doctors!

2009: An Xamcram Odyssey - Symphonic music and monkeys hurling dangerous objects into space!

eugene — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:26:28 +0000

OK, so you have a couple of months to crack an exam that will likely lead to less sleepless nights fending off the endless onslaught of admissions and more sleepless nights realising the buck actually does stop with you! You turn to the books and your eyes glaze over. You turn to - that boon for the attention deficited in all of us - the Internet. What do you see? A host of snazzy companies eager to part a desperate crammer from his money. Then out of the corner of your eye. A bright and benign monolith. Free questions. Quality ones (well many of them hopefully), penned by your peers - and with love. Now this can be a reality. In-fact we could have a Wikipedia of brilliantly worded exam questions. Sculpted and finessed by web 2.0’s hand.

In case you are wondering, that in my overblown way of stating things was Xamcram.

We want to do a quality free source here and consign some of those avaricious prep course pay sites to the place where they can cohabit with the likes of world book encyclopedia and Pan-Am. OK some of those sites are great and their promoters have worked really hard to make them so. Props to them. But there has to be something between an expensive professional pay site and loose collections of dodgy medical forums.

All you doctors out there, please send in questions that you have for MRCP, MRCPsych, MRCS, MRCOG, Radiology, Anaesthesia, Paediatrics and just about any UK/US based medical exam that you would like to see on our site. We have only put up a fraction of our repository right now, but if things work out you should be seeing our entire collection up there pretty soon.

Peace and Love

Dr. Orgone

100 free expert content MRCP1 questions live!

kiran — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:06:30 +0000

Happy New year folks!

Here’s our first new years gift to the xamcram community:

100 free expert created questions with detailed explanations and references.

Go to MRCP1 on xamcram to see the new content >

You can obviously discuss and rate these questions using the features we have provided and share them with your friends who are studying for their MRCP1 memberships. Get to your dashboard to see all the new tags and follow them to the questions.

Have a great year ahead,

The xamcram Team.

MRCP 2 Live!

kiran — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:16:54 +0000

Free MRCP 2 questions have just been uploaded!

The question bank for MRCP 2 is new and we’ve slaved over each and every one of these questions. They have detailed references, in depth explanations and you have the power to add to the explanations and discuss the questions and add to the repository of knowledge (wikipedia style).

If you’re new to xamcram, take a look at our advanced Performance Stats, Study Journal and Study Reminders applications: all to help you study smarter for your membership exams.

Cheers & Luck,

the xamcram team!

MRCP 1 Live!

kiran — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:08:14 +0000

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

We’ve just got MRCP 1 live on xamcram with 150+ excellent questions with detailed explanations. These questions will help you prepare for your upcoming membership exams. The new Performance section on the site will give you immediate feedback on how you are doing and will help you figure out areas that you need to focus on.

We’re working on adding questions every day and you should see a massive repository of high quality questions for your revision on xamcram very soon.

Free MRCP 1 questions - a holiday gift from the xamcram team.

Cheers!

Give us your tired past paper questions! MRCPsych, MRCS, MRCP etc.

admin — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:05:39 +0000

Hey guys and girls. We are trying to build a repository of past papers with detailed explanations and answers. Of course it would be great if all of you could send us some nice finessed questions that are good to go, but (sigh) I might be getting my hopes up. OK for all you reasonably lazy people out there just send us whatever past questions you can find - in any format you like, in whatever stage of completeness. We’ll complete them and put them up on Xamcram for free. That’s a promise.Happy cramming! ED