March 7, 2017 Matthew Callahan Turkey March 7, 2017 Matthew Callahan “Dear Anna & Dr. Swartz,Yesterday I got my exam result and I passed!!! I am so happy as you can guess. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I don’t know what else I can say altough I do want to say a lot…I am so grateful to all of you, and will come and visit you when I come back to NYC.I am very grateful to you and your lovely team, and I appreciate all your efforts for our success, so I’m very willing to do anything I can to share my magnificent experience of C3NY workshop that should not be missed by anyone who’s planning to take Step 2 CS. I am so honored to have met you, and I’m looking forward to see you all again.My best wishes for you both and of course for Charles 🙂” — Bahar Budan, M.D., Turkey Bahar Budan, MD, Turkey, Video Testimonial “Dear Dr. Swartz and Miss. Lank,I took Step 2 CS exam on September 16 and received my result today: PASS!I took your course in August; it was wonderful! Because of other time issues, I took only your workshops, and I worked on the patient note and practiced with a friend 2-3 days during the last week before the exam.I am really glad that I passed. And I give all the credit to you both who prepared my mind so well for the exam. You also helped me understand the main idea of this exam. Thank you so much. I say this from the bottom of my heart. I do not know so many fancy words to be able to tell you how grateful I am to both of you.Thank you so much and keep up the good work.” — Sahzene Yavuz, M.D., Turkey “Hello Anna,This in Rahsan from Santa Barbara, CA. I attended the C3NY workshop in March, and I wanted to let you and Dr. Swartz know that I received my report and I passed.I am so happy and relieved at the same time. It was one of the best decisions I made to attend C3NY, you helped me so much to put all together and make the time worth. I thank Dr. Swartz and you again and again for that.I am sure you must be accustomed to hearing success stories, but I wanted to share one more with you:)Thanks a million.” — Rahsan Erdem, M.D., Turkey “Hi Doctor Swartz,I am Mustafa from Turkey. I took my exam on 3rd of June in Philadelphia, and I got my results recently. I passed…As you know I took the May C3NY workshops, and I tried to apply all things you said in the workshops. Before I took the workshop, I had a very different understanding about the exam. I was dwelling too much on details like the differential diagnoses and the details of patient note etc…and I was thinking that they could be important. After the workshop, I understood what the exam is all about: it is more of an assessment of communication than an assessment of my medical knowledge.You are an excellent teacher, and I really learned a lot about communication and medicine. I will always remember you.I am happy with the result, and I thank you, Mrs. Lank, and Ginny for your help.Wish you all the best in life.” — Mustafa Kurkluoglu, M.D., Turkey “Hi Doctor Swartz,I am Mustafa from Turkey. I took my exam on 3rd of June in Philadelphia, and I got my results recently. I passed…As you know I took the May C3NY workshops, and I tried to apply all things you said in the workshops. Before I took the workshop, I had a very different understanding about the exam. I was dwelling too much on details like the differential diagnoses and the details of patient note etc…and I was thinking that they could be important. After the workshop, I understood what the exam is all about: it is more of an assessment of communication than an assessment of my medical knowledge.You are an excellent teacher, and I really learned a lot about communication and medicine. I will always remember you.I am happy with the result, and I thank you, Mrs. Lank, and Ginny for your help.Wish you all the best in life.” — Mustafa Kurkluoglu, M.D., Turkey “Dear Anna Lank,I took my CS exam and passed it at the first attempt.I took my exam in Chicago. It was more difficult than my expectation.I benefited from your course in many ways. You have a good foundation of knowledge of how the exam looks like. I think practice would make a big time difference. I want to say that a student who eager to pass this exam, wants to hear his/her own weakness and solution for that, even the reality is harsh. Thus, your student evaluation is so important.I want to thank you for your help and valuable contribution to my study and the result I got.” — Halis Sonmez, M.D., Turkey “Dear Dr. Swartz,I passed CS on my first attempt due to your excellent teaching ability and Anna’s perfect communication styles. C3NY tought me to evaluate the patient as a whole being, not just as a headache, arm pain, or any other complaint. This is what I learned during the 3 short days of your excellent program. And it is the key of success!And as Anna said, if you really listen your patient as you listen to him in coffee shop, you will be successful. I was inspired with this great communication style and gained confidence by C3NY.Thank you so much and good luck to Step 2-CK candidates.” — Musa Gokalp Bolkent, M.D., Turkey Matthew Callahan freelance writer of policy, politics, religion, and tech. web designer, social media manager, a/v installer, computer question-answerer.