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I thought that this test sucked totally and completely without equivocation. I don't know where the hell they came up with those questions (tonail trepination for subungual hemorrhages, not exactaly covered in review books if you see my point). The most ambigious ways of asking questions so that any sort of deductive reasoning flew out the door about 33% of the time. I just hope I passed.
For those of you who have to take it next year I'd like to say that about 25% of the questions include vaginal bleeding/discharge and pregnancy issues (GDM, Eclampsia, ectopic, fetal well being). Lots of chest x-rays. Weird neuro stuff. Know your head trauma and stroke patterns like a champ. Become an std master as that was a HUGE part of the test. Lots of preventative medicne stuff. Use swanson's for family practice to hit up the things which aren't included in CRUSH or BOARDS and WARDS, there were a lot of FP geared questions (managing FP stuff). Cover peds, ob, and womens health in swansons and that should gain you about 60 questions at LEAST.
OMM stuff: sympathetic parasympathetic and sacral/pelvic diagnosis made up almost all the omm. Lots of GI emergency management. Uhh...what else? Forget using pretest medicine or anyother pretest stuff for this one, it won't help. Best last minute resource which SAVED MY ASS was High Yeild OBGYN...fly over the case senerios. Pure gold. About 8 ekg's, not to difficult. But man there is a LOT of weird medical trivia which would have been difficult to prepare for. Hope this helps for those of you up in august.
Endo was composed of entirely Adrenal, Thyroid, and of course diabeties (huge!). Lots of ER consult poop in there.
Do all this and you should at least pass. Good luck in 2004-5.
Vent.
Can't talk longer, beer and sedatives kicking in.
EDIT: Landed a 92% on it. You guys can definitely do it if I pulled it off. Best of luck future DO's.
For those of you who have to take it next year I'd like to say that about 25% of the questions include vaginal bleeding/discharge and pregnancy issues (GDM, Eclampsia, ectopic, fetal well being). Lots of chest x-rays. Weird neuro stuff. Know your head trauma and stroke patterns like a champ. Become an std master as that was a HUGE part of the test. Lots of preventative medicne stuff. Use swanson's for family practice to hit up the things which aren't included in CRUSH or BOARDS and WARDS, there were a lot of FP geared questions (managing FP stuff). Cover peds, ob, and womens health in swansons and that should gain you about 60 questions at LEAST.
OMM stuff: sympathetic parasympathetic and sacral/pelvic diagnosis made up almost all the omm. Lots of GI emergency management. Uhh...what else? Forget using pretest medicine or anyother pretest stuff for this one, it won't help. Best last minute resource which SAVED MY ASS was High Yeild OBGYN...fly over the case senerios. Pure gold. About 8 ekg's, not to difficult. But man there is a LOT of weird medical trivia which would have been difficult to prepare for. Hope this helps for those of you up in august.
Endo was composed of entirely Adrenal, Thyroid, and of course diabeties (huge!). Lots of ER consult poop in there.
Do all this and you should at least pass. Good luck in 2004-5.
Vent.
Can't talk longer, beer and sedatives kicking in.
EDIT: Landed a 92% on it. You guys can definitely do it if I pulled it off. Best of luck future DO's.