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Pass Program has helped me in so many different ways. I am an IMG who started to prepare for USMLE on my own. I had purchased previous on demand courses from other resources but nothing has helped me as much as PASS. After a previous failed attempt on Step 1 I came to Champaign very low on confidence and felt as a failure. Dr Francis and his teachings literally lifted me off the ground and his attitude towards teaching gave a whole different view of how Step 1 really is and also made it fun. I would look forward to go to class everyday and the morning questions are golden!! I am still awaiting on school paperwork to be able to schedule my next attempt but I feel so much better now about it and I thank PASS program for that.

It was very useful to me , pass program helped me to understand what is all the steps about . Dr Francis lifted me up from a place of hopelessness to the feeling of “I can also do this exam and pass it “ , all the concepts he teaches in step 1 is still useful for me in the journey of step 2 and so .. please whoever reading this review . Know that this pass program is worth it .. morning questions alone is also very very helpful for me in approaching Uworld ..

Excellent program easy to use

Love it, very high yield review for medical board exams. Great way of thinking of taught here, I feel like I'm really understanding the reasons why I'm picking the right answer and not just memorizing what the right answer is and relying on recall. Extremely interactive, Dr Francis has a great personality and he really cares about us mastering the concepts of medicine. Only reason it's not 5 stars is that I really wish there was a digital copy of the textbook. I would love to be able to digitally reference and look things up

Pass program and Dr. Francis is a place where students come to be revived again! Studying for Step 1 or any other step exam can take its toll on us medical students, leading to depression, fear, anxiety and sometimes much worst. Dr. Francis focuses on not only making medicine fun again, but bringing to the light concepts that we think are difficult, in a new, easy and fun way to understand. When I first came to pass fear had crippled me, depression was real and my foundation was weak. I thought it would be impossible to pass my comp exam, muchness step 1. Within 2 months of the program I passed my comp and if it wasn't for Covid, I would have passed step 1 soon after my comp.After leaving pass, I was happy, confident and ready to conquer this exam. Dr. Francis genuinely cares about his students and he genuinely knows each student for their strengths and weakness and where they are in this journey towards passing boards. He took days to reach out to me just to check on my mental health and making sure I was still pushing through long after leaving the program. 4 days before my exam, I took NBME 18 and received a failing score, but did really well on Free 150 Questions. Doubt was creeping in so I called Dr. Francis, he told me I was ready without hesitation and to trust him! and I did! That was the best decision I made. I went into the exam, happy after seeing the questions were like doing a UWorld Block and I left knowing I had passed because he believed in me, in turn helping me believe in myself! 'My background is I am a carribbean medical student, more than 5 years out of basic sciences and never taken step 1. I tried doing it on my own for years but I wasn't successful until I came to pass. I came to pass and after the course my nbme scores went up 40points. Dont try to do it on your own, don't waste time like I did. Come and follow a method that has worked for so many students including myself. Don't wait until you fail an exam to reach out to the program! and if you do and you are down on your self, come and get Dr. Francis's Knowledge and love he shares for all his students, we have all been there and all in the struggle together. I am forever in debt to you Dr. Francis! Thank you for being more than a teacher, and for truly caring about our success and ability to become a better generation of Doctors. -Nye

I have done PASS courses for COMLEX Levels 1 and 2 now and would not have passed them without the guidance and support of Dr. Francis and my tutors at the PASS Program. These exams can be very overwhelming, and if you have a prior attempt like I did with the fear of failure and dismissal hanging over you, test anxiety and bad habits can really hold you back. Dr. Francis and the tutors will teach you a new way to organize material and approach test questions that is different than any other program I have tried, and I have pretty much tried them all Kaplan, STATmed, First Aid, Pathoma, COMQUEST, Combank, Uworld... If you commit, you will learn an entirely different way to approach medicine and professional exams, and I can honestly say that it worked on all of my COMAT/ Shelf exams on 3rd year rotations. The most important thing I can say is DON’T give up on yourself and your dream to help others as a doctor because of these tests! I promise you, the PASS program can help you. Knowledge gaps, learning disabilities, attention disorders, test anxiety, whatever it is that you think might be holding you back... they can help you overcome it. Level/Step 1,2,3 and even specialty boards, I intend to use what they taught me for the rest of my career in medicine and on every exam I ever take.

Life changing experience! You will not regret it! Dr. Francis is by far one of the best doctors I've ever met in my life, his approach to teaching and making sure you understand instead of memorizing content is out of this world. Today, I received by score report and I couldn't be happier with the results. Thank you Dr. Francis, for believing in me even when I struggled to believe in myself.

I decided to enroll myself in the PASS program after my dean told me that he would be “extremely surprised” if I passed step 1 based on my first- and second-year grades. My school had pretty much given up on me—especially since I had already completed a course before the PASS program, and I still was deemed as “not ready” for boards. However, Dr. Francis didn’t. He made me believe that I could still accomplish the goal that I had set out for myself and he was there for me throughout the entire journey. He literally helped me study and prepare weeks after my live online course ended. For anyone who is undecided about joining the PASS family, please take my advice. DO IT. Yes, its going to cost you extra $, but if that extra money means you achieve the goal that you’ve worked so hard to obtain, then its money well spent. He taught me how to THINK. It was something that no professor could ever teach me how to do. When I received my boards score, Dr. Francis was the first person I called. All he could say was, “Now, didn’t I tell you that the nay-sayers were wrong about you?” It was the first time in all of medical school that I passed something on my first try with flying colors. My deans were SHOCKED to say the least. Now that I am a third year, even my preceptors are amazed by my clinical reasoning skills—Dr. Francis taught me how to do that too... I went from “least likely to pass in your entire class” as per my deans during first and second year to “you exude a competence and confidence unlike any other” as per my 3rd year preceptors. If I can do it, I know you can too. P.S. I didn’t get any incentive for writing this review, but I remember being a skeptical reader if these comments a year ago, so I just wanted to provide someone out there with a little bit of hope. Take a chance on yourself. If you believe in yourself just a little, Dr. Francis will believe in you a lot. Thanks Dr. F! I’ll see you for step 2!!