Board Review Schedule
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As a suggestion, study heavily for this year's in-service. It will help you prepare for the qualifying examination. As far as a schedule, I just tried to study when I could. You'll be starting a new job, learning the lay of the land there, as well as numerous other administrative tasks.
Someone else probably has mapped out a better study schedule than I, so I'll defer to those folk.
Wook
Did your program do any formal review for the inservice exam?
I just got done with 2 months of going through Rivers and various question sets for inservice prep. We also did 2-3 hrs/week of reviewing in our residency bookclub meetings. If you haven't done something like this, I'd get ahold of a review book and divide up the readings so you cover it all between now and mid-March.
At this point, I'm taking off a couple of weeks and then plan on doing the PEER VI and PEER VII questions at a semi-leisurely pace. I really wish the inservice and the real thing were just a few days apart rather than a 2 month interim.
I just got done with 2 months of going through Rivers and various question sets for inservice prep. We also did 2-3 hrs/week of reviewing in our residency bookclub meetings. If you haven't done something like this, I'd get ahold of a review book and divide up the readings so you cover it all between now and mid-March.
At this point, I'm taking off a couple of weeks and then plan on doing the PEER VI and PEER VII questions at a semi-leisurely pace. I really wish the inservice and the real thing were just a few days apart rather than a 2 month interim.
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It is a few months in-between and I wished the same thing. It's almost a full year between the two and my addled mind forget much of what I had studied for the in-service.
The intensity of your studying is much more rigorous than mine. It sounds like you'll rock both the in-service and qualifying exam!!
Wook
My program does intense inservice review. I've now completed it 4 times and feel very well prepared for the real deal. At the same time, I'm way too neurotic to not do some studying between now and March 17.
As a side note, we also do weekly oral exam practice cases (except when we're doing inservice review). 2 residents each week do a practice case in front of everyone. Between doing and seeing cases, we get tons of experience with the quite unnatural setup of the oral exam, along with a wide variation of types of cases and pitfalls. I'm quite grateful for the intensity of the academics at my program (on top of all of the above, we go through the vast majority of Tintinalli every year).
As a side note, we also do weekly oral exam practice cases (except when we're doing inservice review). 2 residents each week do a practice case in front of everyone. Between doing and seeing cases, we get tons of experience with the quite unnatural setup of the oral exam, along with a wide variation of types of cases and pitfalls. I'm quite grateful for the intensity of the academics at my program (on top of all of the above, we go through the vast majority of Tintinalli every year).
