I'm glad to inform you about the start of a USMLE Step 1 preparatory course at the University
of Debrecen Medical and Health Science Center in Hungary with the assistance of Kaplan (www.kaplan.
com), a well-known international educational company to build up cooperation that would provide high-
quality teaching for medical students.
USMLE
Entering residency in the United States of America requires the Educational Committee for Foreign Medical
Graduates (ECFMG) certification, which can be obtained after successfully taking the United States Medical
Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1 and 2. USMLE assesses a physician's ability to apply knowledge,
concepts, and principles, and to demonstrate fundamental patient-centered skills, that are important in health
and disease and that constitute the basis of safe and effective patient care. Step 1 assesses whether the
examinee understands and able to apply important concepts of the sciences basic to the practice of medicine.
Step 1 ensures mastery of not only the sciences that provide a foundation for the safe and competent practice
of medicine in the present, but also the scientific principles required for maintenance of competence through
lifelong learning (www.usmle.org).
PREPARATORY COURSE
This course ensures that the applicants gain ample information in the subjects that are covered by exam,
providing opportunity to finish in the high percentiles.
Place:
University of Debrecen, Medical and Health Science Center
H-4032 Debrecen, Nagyerdei Krt. 98.
Date:
6th July, 2009 - 31st July, 2009.
Schedule:
• Pathology: 4 days - 7 hours each or 28 hours total
• Pharmacology: 4 days - 7 hours each or 28 hours total
• Physiology: 4 days - 7 hours each or 28 hours total
• Behavioral Science: 2 days - 6 hours or 13 hours total
• Test Taking: 2 hours
• Study Skills: 3hours
The package includes:
• live lecture course
• books
• access to 80 total hours of online Web lectures
• 6-months of online questions through Qbank Plus (more than 3,000 basic science review questions and
full-length simulated exams)
Tuition fee:
1. transferring before 30th April, 2009. 1 950 USD
2. transferring before 31st May, 2009. 2 250 USD
IMPORTANT: accommodation with two meals a day is provided in our brand new, three-star West Hostel
located on the campus for reasonable price (upon request).
For more information regarding the course, accommodation and visa issues, feel free to contact me!

