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The Phased Roadmap
Week-by-week plans break the moment one week goes sideways. Two-week phases absorb the variance and let you actually finish.
The Phase Structure#
Every prep plan we build divides the dedicated window into phases of roughly two weeks. Each phase has:
- A system focus - the body system or category being prioritised.
- A UWorld target - questions per day, plus a percentage milestone.
- A resource milestone - chapters of Pathoma, sections of Sketchy, etc.
- A habit goal - usually one thing (see One Thing at a Time).
- An NBME or self-assessment at the end.
Why Two Weeks#
| Grain | Problem |
|---|---|
| Day-by-day | Any disruption (illness, family, low day) feels like falling behind. Catastrophic to morale. |
| Week-by-week | One bad week ruins the metric. Students fall behind in week 3 and never catch up. |
| Two weeks | Absorbs one bad day or even one bad week. Phase targets are still hittable. Score growth measurable per NBME. |
| Month-by-month | Too coarse. By the time you see a problem, you've lost a month. |
The promise
Two-week phases let you recover from a bad day without rewriting the whole plan. That is the entire reason they work.Phase-End Ritual#
- Take the scheduled NBME or self-assessment.
- Audit your Concept Correction Log: which patterns repeat?
- Adjust the next phase's system focus based on the data, not vibes.
- One System B day immediately after.