First of all, you have a long way to go and if you love ortho and are focused on getting there, you can make it happen. As far as Step 1 studying, I found that using something like First Aid to help me study for the path, micro, and pharm tests was a good way to accomplish two things at once - study for the exam at hand and start to get an idea of what is important for the boards. One of the hardest things about the boards is getting used to the question format and what they think is important. So, I think do specific Step 1 studying aside from classes may turn into overkill and you may lose some of the information, but I felt that trying to combine class studying with getting a head start to be a good combo. Also, I ended up buying the 3 month block of QBank from Kaplan (I'm assuming they still do this) and was able to use that for my last couple of exams for classes as well as a study tool. Good luck and hope this helps.
