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Reddit and FB psych chat have some conflicting comments about scores being released today vs delays due to website being down and scores possibly being delayed until the end of the week (people called ABPN apparently)
 
blueforest said:
Reddit and FB psych chat have some conflicting comments about scores being released today vs delays due to website being down and scores possibly being delayed until the end of the week (people called ABPN apparently)
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Ugh, why even bother to give a date if it's not going to be honored?? I'm not the most tech savvy person, but from my limited understanding of how things work, scores could have been input the day prior, with an update to the website pushed the day of. I would have thought that they would have had some system like that in place.
 
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Still showing the same error message for me
 
They’re going to check who has neurotically reloaded the site for the last 3 days and then fail us all
 
Auvelity said:
Wasn’t it supposed to be today? At this point they should just pass everyone just for the inconvenience…
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I think it's going to be tomorrow AM. Last year it was Thursday in the AM, from what I am seeing in the thread.
 
Website is back. Other than, drdss2017, does anyone has options to apply for fellowships, when you click on "available applications"? I do not.
 
This is what I am seeing.
 

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This is what I have
 

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samac said:
me just realizing the email says by the end of next week not the end of this week

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They only gave themselves a generous self-imposed deadline of 12 weeks. There really was no way of knowing they would need additional time, it's not like they have to score these tests and release the results every year!
 
mdordome said:
If I recall correctly, family medicine gets their results within a week or two of taking the exam and here we are waiting more than three months past the promise date with no results. Wish I had the power to fire everyone in the ABPN.
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Someone in peds took their exam after us and has had their score for a month lol
 
mdordome said:
If I recall correctly, family medicine gets their results within a week or two of taking the exam and here we are waiting more than three months past the promise date with no results. Wish I had the power to fire everyone in the ABPN.
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The power is in the hands of an MBA graduate and we are waiting for her to release our grades..
 
mdordome said:
If I recall correctly, family medicine gets their results within a week or two of taking the exam and here we are waiting more than three months past the promise date with no results. Wish I had the power to fire everyone in the ABPN.
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Well, all of psychiatry is fake and subjective so they need to make sure every question is actually right or wrong based on the moods of those involved and the current position of the stars
 
The audacity of these people. ABPN needs to be held accountable. I wasn’t even that concerned about the exam until I found out my scores were supposed to be released yesterday. And their response? “We didn’t get it yesterday, but maybe next week.”

How is that acceptable?

Why do we tolerate an organization like ABPN, which can’t even commit to its own deadlines, to have so much power over us?

Do they realize they are as fake as money? Aka, they are a construct because we believe in them and those stupid questions validate us as psychiatrist and we could just decide not to believe in them and not pay them and they would literally cease to exist?

I’m so triggered!
 
75% of the Neuro questions don't make any sense. I understand we need to have a great understanding of the organic psychiatry/Neurobiology but we don't need to know all the **** they are asking in the Exams. Same with the developmental theories. It is good to have some decent idea about the basic concepts of history but we don't need to be experts in everything that we don't even use in our daily practice. The focus should be on psychopharmacology, Neurobiology, DSM. But the test has more than 50% of crap which has no significant role in our lives or does not help with improving your patient care.
 
mle3 said:
75% of the Neuro questions don't make any sense. I understand we need to have a great understanding of the organic psychiatry/Neurobiology but we don't need to know all the **** they are asking in the Exams. Same with the developmental theories. It is good to have some decent idea about the basic concepts of history but we don't need to be experts in everything that we don't even use in our daily practice. The focus should be on psychopharmacology, Neurobiology, DSM. But the test has more than 50% of crap which has no significant role in our lives or does not help with improving your patient care.
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And there were so many obscure therapy questions, like making you choose between cognitive therapy vs behavioral therapy, aren't they the same??
 
But they're going to come in handy when we need to find a way to vent the absolute garbage we want to spew at the incompetent apbn right now.
 
Another update from abpn
 

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Sorry English isn’t my first language so I thought I just clarify lol
 
Now, it's showing I have all the subspecialty applications available. Is it available for everyone?
 

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I'm not even that anxious about my score... I'm just pissed that they can take 12 weeks to score an electronic test and still somehow screw it up after giving themselves so much time.

I bet they're all going to pat themselves on the back and sign off on each other's fat bonuses coming up.

What a crock.
 
docksan said:
The fact that a few people have the subspecialty applications popping up for them is doing nothing for our collective anxiety lol
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I agree but I believe it has nothing to do based on the previous conversations in this forum. Still can’t stop the curiosity to know what does this mean… and why they show up to some people and not for some and creates confusion…
 
Weird how this is happening with the sub specialty applications for some and not others….
 
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