Links to NAVLE and BCSE prep materials

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Dear colleagues,

Here are some free resources that folks may want to use as they prepare for BCSE and NAVLE:

You can register for free at the Zuku Review to get a Question of the day email, to help you improve your test-taking skills. http://zukureview.com/newuser.php?action=newuser

The word in the chat rooms is that BCSE is basically a mini NAVLE, and leans towards clinical questions more than the "ologies" (ie: microbiology/clin pathology etc).
You can follow it at the Yahoo NAVLE study group. They have a set up a good library of notes sources, and its free.
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NAVLE_study_group/

Another source of free notes, powerpoints, is Gumshoevet
http://gumshoevet.net/Documents.aspx

Look for A-Z Cram guide (too big to upload on this forum) or email me and I'll forward a copy. The A-Z cram guide is not the first place to do your studying, but plenty of colleagues who passed NAVLE have said it was worth skimming over it in the last week or two before the test. It is a summary from the Merck.

Merck online is also a good place to review images.
http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/in...m_list_img.htm

Finally, of course,you can find good material at http://zukureview.com/studymaterials.php

You need to be serious and professional, and apply yourself to preparation with a good study plan. It should include a combination of good books, summary notes you write in your own hand on key conditions (ie: neonatal diarrheas, abortion, endocrinology top 5) and a good computerized practice tests tool like Zuku Review or Vetprep.

I am attaching some strategy documents you may find useful. That multiple choice one in particular is worth your time.

One last thing: The NBVME (the group that makes the NAVLE and BCSE) will be selling 200 question "Self-Assessment" tests starting this month for $50. I strongly recommend people take at least one of them in October to check your progress and to get in good practice with bona-fide NAVLE questions courtesy of the folks who make the actual test.

http://nbvme.org/?id=47&page=NAVLE+Self-Assessments

Best regards,
Steve

Steven I McLaughlin DVM, MPH, ACVPM
The Zuku Review, NAVLE/BCSE online test prep

1 800 928 8218
www.Zukureview.com
[email protected]

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This thread is really useful. Hope it helps some people in the future!
 
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Hello, I'm enrolled in the ECFVG program, my next step is the BCSE but I'm taking the zuku review course for NAVLE, is it very different? Do I need to take the BCSE course rather than the NAVLE to present my BCSE?
 
I got bcse subscription from zuku last week. I asked them to advise me and they recommended bsce as I am preparing for bcse. I found it qiute easy and interesting.
Now my question
I applied for ecfvg registration on 15th of May online. I am British resident and I posted the document on 19th. The documents should be there by now. But interestingly today my account is blank. I was showing progress untill yesterday but as I was expecting it to be updated today it got blank. The only option I can see is logout. Although they created my accont on 15th but they didnt charge my credit card.
Could you please tell me hownlong it takes to charge the regisration fee. As I found they are not prompt repliers to the query.
 
As far as I know, it has to be charged in order to keep your account, there might have been an error with your credit card, try calling them to see what the problem was. I enrolled in December and didn't have issues, they charged my credit card right away and had me start the paperwork, which they don't tell you before you enroll. I live in Cd Juarez, Chih, Mexico, they expected official paperwork from my school in 7 working days :S but I made it with the one day shipping of my paperwork
 
My wife has used zuku and vet prep and after four different attempts she has still failed to pass the NAVLE. Most people apparently figure it out but I can tell you now that this has been a complete nightmare. All those jobs they say you can get with a DVM, yeah, that's a lie without a license.

Does anyone know if there are any preparatory courses out there that one can take to get past this exam? CPA's, lawyers...virtually any other profession has more prep help for their respective licensing exams than vet med and considering the NAVLE folks have thoughtfully recommended to many state boards that they limit retries to 5 times in five years...well...
 
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