Advanced Exam (Written Boards) 2017

[Dawkter]

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Have senior residents started studying for this exam yet? Curious as to if anyone has tried the Pass Machine online course and would suggest it as a good alternative to the Jensen course.

 

[Robotic Wis-Hipple]

True Learn. That test is not a big deal. The new sim exam sounds terrible though, glad I missed out on that.

 

[Dr Stu]

True Learn. That test is not a big deal. The new sim exam sounds terrible though, glad I missed out on that.

Agreed, True Learn is the way to go

 

[AdmiralChz]

Planning on using True Learn as well. Not looking forward to being a guinea pig on the OSCE/sim part, but at least with the first wave it'll likely have a very low fail rate.

 

[Shimmy8]

Using True Learn and if I have time PM question bank and lectures along with ACE if any left over.

Also, they published pass rate for last year, 93%!?!?!

 

[wickedskillz]

program is letting my buy books for oral / advanced boards. any specific focused board prep books stand out? I currenly own miller, m and m, barash, pre-existing disease

 

[AdmiralChz]

On a recommendation from this board I got Yao and Artusio's text and it's great, just a bit heavy. I also have Faust, the newest edition is OK in my opinion but several of my classmates use it.

 

[Dawkter]

How many weeks do most people take to prepare for this?

 

[Laryngophed]

I get the impression the scale isn't measured in weeks.

 

[chewychew]

Have senior residents started studying for this exam yet? Curious as to if anyone has tried the Pass Machine online course and would suggest it as a good alternative to the Jensen course.

I am a current CA-3 and ordered the Pass Machine. I would recommend to Pass on their review course. The lectures are too superficial and don't provide the level of detail needed to answer practice questions that I see on true learn, ACE, or our ITE's.

 

[Thepassageofgas]

anyone know what percentage on True Learn qbank correlates with a likely pass on the actual test?
thanks.

 

[acidbase1]

anyone know what percentage on True Learn qbank correlates with a likely pass on the actual test?
thanks.

50th percentile is 62%... so pretty low

 

[Mman]

How many weeks do most people take to prepare for this?

3 years of residency. Read about your patients/cases the night before and you will pass.