Is there anywhere that says exactly what the ABFAS CBPS is looking for when it scores the exam? I've never had trouble with board exams in the past and passed everything no problem for Boards parts 1, 2, and 3. And during the in-training exams for ABFAS, I scored at least average to above in everything, so I don't know why the CBPS is giving me so much trouble, now.
Now that I'm taking the ABFAS CBPS, I seem to be encountering difficulty, but I have no real idea why. In most of the scenarios, I had a pretty confident idea of what was going on and treated accordingly, I had maybe one or two patients where I wasn't 100% sure of everything, but that shouldn't be enough to tank the score. My real problem is that I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Unfortunately, the official practice CBPS give no feedback, and are really only get you familiar with the system. I used Boards by Numbers to study and felt that I was ready, with very few things feeling unfamiliar, but I seem to have hit a brick wall.
One example is if a patient will require non-weightbearing after a surgical procedure, do you put the procedure and also non-weightbearing, or just the procedure? I never got a straight answer for this. The first time, I put non-weight bearing, and the second, I didn't but I don't know which was the right way to do it.
I think the best thing, would be for me to find some actual CBPS that give feedback, to tell me what precisely, it wants. I'm willing to pay for the practice exams, but unless it gives me feedback, I don't want to pay for hundreds of dollars for it.
Any general tips on the CBPS would be helpful, since no one I've talked to can actually tell me precisely how the scoring works.
Now that I'm taking the ABFAS CBPS, I seem to be encountering difficulty, but I have no real idea why. In most of the scenarios, I had a pretty confident idea of what was going on and treated accordingly, I had maybe one or two patients where I wasn't 100% sure of everything, but that shouldn't be enough to tank the score. My real problem is that I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Unfortunately, the official practice CBPS give no feedback, and are really only get you familiar with the system. I used Boards by Numbers to study and felt that I was ready, with very few things feeling unfamiliar, but I seem to have hit a brick wall.
One example is if a patient will require non-weightbearing after a surgical procedure, do you put the procedure and also non-weightbearing, or just the procedure? I never got a straight answer for this. The first time, I put non-weight bearing, and the second, I didn't but I don't know which was the right way to do it.
I think the best thing, would be for me to find some actual CBPS that give feedback, to tell me what precisely, it wants. I'm willing to pay for the practice exams, but unless it gives me feedback, I don't want to pay for hundreds of dollars for it.
Any general tips on the CBPS would be helpful, since no one I've talked to can actually tell me precisely how the scoring works.