The Method · Calendar
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.