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Has anyone gotten their certificate in the mail yet?
Has anyone gotten their certificate in the mail yet?
Thanks. It should have been sent out by now. I will just feel better when I have the actual document.Nothing as of yesterday
Thanks. I was close, too bad this isn't horse shoes or hand grenades. I am going to add on a few more question books and board vitals and go to Kaufmanns course over the summer in NY. I get to keep my BTB and someone has been kind enough to send me the newer edition of Spiegel. I am going to focus on memorization of childhood diseases. neuro and the DSM 5 until probably April and then start questions. Hopefully the third time is the charm. I really hope to match into FP and being BC in psych was my hope that it would improve my chances of that which are slim, but if I am stuck in psych it is much easier to make a living being board certified. I am also going to work on my performance anxiety .
Congrats again to all who passed the psych, child psych and MOC.
I did it online and highly recommend it along with Spiegel (know it cold) and all the practice questions you can do. I also failed 2x but studied like crazy and finally passed. Good luck. I personally prefer online. It's A LOT of lectures to cover in 5 days. You can ask questions on the group forum and the admins will get you an answer and I emailed Dr. Jack and he gave me some helpful hints. I am going to his master psych conference in Cali in Oct. He is an excellent lecturer. Don't let it be your ONLY source, especially for questions. Do q books online q banks is my advice.Any review on BTB live course for 5 days?. I failed this exam twice and this year thinking to attend the live course. Thanks!
Has anyone received their Board Cert in the mail? It should be here by now.
Thanks. I want that freaking piece of paper.Nope, they specifically say contact us after 6 mos if you don’t receive it
Log in here and play around with all the buttons until you have it almost memorized. Then it will make more sense.I finally got it. After all this time they sent it 2 day express and it had to be signed for. So...…… what are the requirements to keep it? It had a letter explaining it which made zero sense to me.
Are lab values provided or are we suppose to memorize them? Pretty terrible that for all other exams I took in my career, the rubric and expectations were clearly defined, however, for this one, there are too many sources and not a gold standard. This reflects poorly on our profession.
Some testing centers let you leave the building some don't. If I recall, they aren't supposed to let you leave the building but you can leave the testing center. You may not need the whole time but it's an endurance test tooi didn't realize how long the test is. I am definitely going to need a starbucks to help me get through after lunch. do they allow you to leave the testing center during your breaks? or am i just going to have to use a 5 hr energy drink to get me through it lol?
Some testing centers let you leave the building some don't. If I recall, they aren't supposed to let you leave the building but you can leave the testing center. You may not need the whole time but it's an endurance test too
Anyone doing Psychiatry Genius bank of Questions? If so, what are your thoughts?
how are u guys memorizing the piaget, freud and erikson stages? is there mnemonic you guys use? i hate to do rote memorization
I did rote and it sucked......………how are u guys memorizing the piaget, freud and erikson stages? is there mnemonic you guys use? i hate to do rote memorization
I took it three times and every exam had different topics and was quite different from the prior exam. I know Spiegel is heavy on it so I am guessing at least one exam at one point was heavy on it. Obviously they are going to hit the more common disorders as listed on the ABPN site but it's impossible to predict what else you may see. Most people pass the first time.Are the freud, erikson, and piaget stuff like super high yield? I frickin hate studying it.
I feel not prepared and overwhelmed by several family issues and high demand work. Thinking to cancel this year and will sit next year. This is my third time taking, so dont want to have another attempt if take and fail again. Any thoughts? If I dont show up for exam, does is count as an attempt?? does many attempts to pass the exam affect yr career? Should I just go and sit for exam unprepared? Or prepare well for targeting next year? Thanks in advance.
I would let the ABPN know if you aren't going to sit for the exam, I believe they expect you to show up or contact them. It's really your choice. I took it for the third time last year and about 6 weeks prior I worked one day a week max and studied 16 hours a day and I still didn't feel ready(I started before 6 weeks but I am a slow studier and have severe untreated ADHD and GAD. I was a third time test taker. I didn't take it the year I graduated residency and my worry was failing by the fifth year out because I can't imagine me with my anxiety passing an oral exam as well as the written exam. I don't know how severe your family issues are, if they can be set aside for a month or not. This really isn't an exam most of us feel ready for........ I just think the pass matters. I don't think it matters how many times you take it, but someone please chime in if I am incorrect. I was SURE I failed last year and much to my surprise I passed and by a totally decent margin. I am so glad it is done and over. If it were me I would take it. You paid for it. Study as much as you can, do as many practice questions as you can and if you fail, just count it as a very expensive practice exam, but the choice is really yours. Good luck.I feel not prepared and overwhelmed by several family issues and high demand work. Thinking to cancel this year and will sit next year. This is my third time taking, so dont want to have another attempt if take and fail again. Any thoughts? If I dont show up for exam, does is count as an attempt?? does many attempts to pass the exam affect yr career? Should I just go and sit for exam unprepared? Or prepare well for targeting next year? Thanks in advance.
No. I didn't really study much for my first attempt at the board exam because I did well on the PRITE exams and that was a mistake. Personally, I don't think they are representative of current boards.Did you guys use old prites to study at all?
For exam purposes and for real life, if someone has Melancholic depression and they are coming to you for the first time, do you first start them on the standard protocol (i.e. one SSRI, if it doesn't work switch to another one), then consider TCA or do you just put them on the TCA immediately?
Neurology is only 6% of the exam. I wouldn't focus too much on that. I'm just focusing on high yield topics such as depression, anxiety, trauma, substance use, personality d/o, bipolar, neurocognitive, etc....
The neuro questions were super straight forward. I would know the basics. I missed a lot of easy points because I didn't study neuro.
The K/S book question seemed somewhat difficult for me and getting mid 60s on those exam. I did BTB questions. Did not get board vitals
yes the question book lol.Everyone keeps referring to the KS book. Do you mean Kaplan and Saddock textbook, or Kenny and Spiegel question book?
I've done Kenny/Spiegel question book 1.5x, and I hope everyone on this board who says "do KS" mean Kenny and Spiegel lol! I have not opened Kaplan/Saddock. I did read the Boston Massachusetts board prep book cover to cover though.
yes the question book lol.
Thank God. That Kaplan and Sadock book I think is not well written and has too much minutiae. I got 2 more weeks to go. Averaged 70-75 on Kenny/Spiegel, 70% on board vitals, and thus far averaging 60% on psych genius, which makes me worried. It's like I'm getting dumber with every question bank. But I have not been able to track down projections of psych genius score. Whereas Kenny and spiegel "70-75% is almost certain to pass", and 70% on board vitals is a 96% chance of pass, so here's to hoping that psych genius is just harder.
Same here, I don't know why but psych genius questions seem so much harder and they seem very random... Even their vignettes seem very random, like you have to take a random guess because you don't have many clues that point to the right answer. I found K&S questions most educational and well written, Board Vital seems to be a good mix of random questions and basic questions but their vignettes were way too easy...
Agreed with your impression. Though many people say that psych genius is most representative of what they saw on boards. Hopefully what they mean is the questions are written in a way that is similar to boards, but psych genius has a higher percentage of hard questions relative to boards. Because I think 70% is the raw percentage for passing boards, and I'm getting 60%. ahhhhhh DX.
Kenny/Spiegel questions do seem very good learning questions. Most of the ones I got wrong were neuro, and neuro this year is only 4% of the boards, though neurocog is a good 5-10% or something like that. Hopefully this is good sign. Pass rate last year was 88 or was it 87%. That's very low. what gives. Maybe it's all the DO programs joining the MD programs, so there's a lot of new test takers from residencies that were geared towards the AOA rather than the ACGME boards. That's what I think.
The actual exam is VERY VERY random. K&S questions are way too easy for this exam. I think Psych genius does a better job of reflecting the actual exam, as far as the randomness goes. I emailed psych genius and they told me getting above 50% on psych genius question bank is a good indicator of doing well on the actual exam. So who knows....
The actual exam is VERY VERY random. K&S questions are way too easy for this exam. I think Psych genius does a better job of reflecting the actual exam, as far as the randomness goes. I emailed psych genius and they told me getting above 50% on psych genius question bank is a good indicator of doing well on the actual exam. So who knows....
that is concerning.... I thought K&S was supposed to be harder than the actual exam.... plus, I find it frustrating that different qbanks have different answers and explanations from different sources, so you don't know which one to trust and memorize...