ABSITE Blues
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I'll be spending a fair amount of time commuting next year (one of our clinical sites, at which we'll spend approximately half of our rotations, is ~40 minutes away from where I'll be living), and am hoping for some up-to-date advice on audio study methods for the ABSITE. I found this post from a few years back: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/thr...cds-for-surgical-review.826025/#post-11050046 which lists a few options, but since I'm not sure how often these audio files are updated, I was hoping for recent opinions on any of these (or other) sources.
SESAP Audio is interesting for the interaction between surgeons but its really not a primary source; its more about "here's how I do it".
NY General Surgery Review is pretty good quality but pricey; if you could share with another resident then it becomes more reasonable.
Any other thoughts from other member surgeons of the forum? Not a lot of info out there. Dealing with a lot of commute this year and want to listen to surgery.
SESAP 15 audio? Is there such a thing?
Lastly, car does not have a CD reader, so I'd have to stream something or load files into cell - any ideas?
Any help or feedback would be greatly appreciated.
SESAP 15 Audio does indeed exist.
You can purchase it as MP3 files and stream from your phone which is how I do it.
There are also good podcasts out there which you may find valuable (and free).
It seems the link is not working, was wondering if someone can re post these. thank you in advance
Anyone have the link to the 4000 fiser flashcards for the absite review?
They're on ANKI right?
The link provided above leads to an "invalid ID" on the site. Tried searching "absite", "surgery", "fiser" nothing comes up.
I'm looking to listen to surgery board review audio on my downtime- can someone give recommendations as to what the best and most comprehensive audio review is?
I know there is
SESAP 15
The Osler Institute
NY General Surgery Audio Review
The audio Digest General Surgery Board Review
Any suggestions out of these or others not mentioned?
Thanks
I know there is
SESAP 15
The Osler Institute
NY General Surgery Audio Review
The audio Digest General Surgery Board Review
Any suggestions out of these or others not mentioned?
Thanks
It's depressing when you look up a sign you never heard of and the second image in Google images is straight from the exam... 95% of my program got that nonspecific sign wrong, including both prelim Rads residents...
I so want to know what sign it was but don't want anyone to get in trouble 🙁
Me too! PM @dpmd and I!
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WS, jojo is a fine upstanding young surgeon who would never violate abs policies like that 
Yeah, I was like, what am I a first year med student now?
Has anyone heard if the absite scores are back yet?
No i haven't at my program
Said it before I'll say it again. Fiser. Green fields. That's it. Start when you finish med school. Notes in fiser to fill in gaps.
99th percentile, every year. It's all there. People make things too complicated. You have 10 sources you'll never even get through them all. Hit the above 2 hard, again, and again, and again. That's it. Easy plan. Hard work. Everything else is just to make you feel like you have given it your all when you were f-ing around
That said the ABSITE is a poorly constructed test and many answers can be obtained from word tense matching, other questions, topic patterns, elimination strategy etc. The board exam is not poorly constructed. Doing poorly on the ABSITE is a BAD sign. Doing well on the absite is certainly good but not absolutely indicative of performance on the board exam.
99th percentile, every year. It's all there. People make things too complicated. You have 10 sources you'll never even get through them all. Hit the above 2 hard, again, and again, and again. That's it. Easy plan. Hard work. Everything else is just to make you feel like you have given it your all when you were f-ing around
That said the ABSITE is a poorly constructed test and many answers can be obtained from word tense matching, other questions, topic patterns, elimination strategy etc. The board exam is not poorly constructed. Doing poorly on the ABSITE is a BAD sign. Doing well on the absite is certainly good but not absolutely indicative of performance on the board exam.
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Programs apparently got the scores Friday afternoon but our program did not distribute them yet...
doh! i suspected as much with all the "you may be getting your scores next week, sometime, uh... maybe" type emails we got over the weekend.
Did the same thing, and I'm certain it was the same question
. That one was very obscure.Killed it this year. Current Surgical Therapy (Cameron) throughout the year, Fiser & his q book for a couple months, ABSITE killer last minute. Recipe for success.
Got my best score as well, so it either didn't hurt me or was thrown outDid the same thing, and I'm certain it was the same question
Killed it this year. Current Surgical Therapy (Cameron) throughout the year, Fiser & his q book for a couple months, ABSITE killer last minute. Recipe for success.
Now you guys got me wondering what "obscure" sign they're asking about. 😛
I thought I already pm'd you and dpmd about it
My program give $300 towards something academic if you get >90th percentile... I've been close before (89th and 86th) but finally got over that hump, so now I gotta decide, Kindle vs use it with my $500 book money on a surface pro 3...
#humblebrag
I can get in on this... I re-did our didactics last year. Completely new curriculum, new textbook, new lecture format, less reliance on faculty, mostly resident/fellows teaching one another. Year on year improvement? Every single resident in the program improved with an average jump of 12%. #notsohumblebrag
ps. Surface pro 3 without question.
Me too!
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Doh!
You did!
I'm not sure what happened here: if I was trying to like the response on my phone but instead hit copy from a clipboard saved response etc.
Or maybe I'm just getting old and demented and don't know what I'm doing LOL
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Just demented, eh? 😛
Does anyone have a copy of the ABSITE score tables that show PGY year, percent correct, and percentile? I know an older version is out there from 2007... I just was curious what a more up to date version would look like.
Also, if no one has said table, would anyone mind posting their PGY year, percent correct and percentile so I can get a feel for the spread?
Also, if no one has said table, would anyone mind posting their PGY year, percent correct and percentile so I can get a feel for the spread?
Hello @thedrjojo and @SouthernSurgeon,
Do you happen to still have those anki cards? The links you posted are dead.
Thank you
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guys which book is best for absite and what question bank can i use online/
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https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/absite-blues.596164/
See the thread above. There's not one good book or question bank. However, most would agree that the Fiser book is excellent for quick, high-yield review. It will help more with the "Medical knowledge" portion of the test (24%) than it will with the rest.
Online question banks are often expensive and unproven...the newest players are BoardVitals ($100/month) and TrueLearn ($130/month), neither of which are proven to be valuable. We have an institutional subscription to boardvitals, and I thought they were just okay.
SCORE has lots of questions, many of which were apparently purchased through third-party vendors. There is value in the SCORE questions, but you have to wade through a lot of bad questions to find them. Most of us agree that SESAP questions are the best for ABSITE and the actual QE.
Cutting and pasting from another thread.
Thanks.
guys which book is best for absite and what question bank can i use online/
Click to expand...
https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/absite-blues.596164/
See the thread above. There's not one good book or question bank. However, most would agree that the Fiser book is excellent for quick, high-yield review. It will help more with the "Medical knowledge" portion of the test (24%) than it will with the rest.
Online question banks are often expensive and unproven...the newest players are BoardVitals ($100/month) and TrueLearn ($130/month), neither of which are proven to be valuable. We have an institutional subscription to boardvitals, and I thought they were just okay.
SCORE has lots of questions, many of which were apparently purchased through third-party vendors. There is value in the SCORE questions, but you have to wade through a lot of bad questions to find them. Most of us agree that SESAP questions are the best for ABSITE and the actual QE.
Cutting and pasting from another thread.
Thanks.
I haven't had to take the ABSITE for 6 years now, but it is my 5th year of proctoring the exam at my current institution. I'm casually sipping coffee and playing on SDN while my residents sweat it out...I'm definitely on the correct side of this equation...
Good luck to everyone! Hard work pays off.
Good luck to everyone! Hard work pays off.
last time taking the test! score report today...could have been much much worse
overachiever
The link isn't working. Any chance you still have this deck? Please PM me if so!
