Board review

[myrandom2003]

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Ok, my bad about the old board questions thread, should have known better but I am looking for questions to practice... I've done the old sae questions... I am just looking for something like usmleworld or kaplan qbank, just a bank of questions to self asses...

 

[ShrikeMD]

Ok, my bad about the old board questions thread, should have known better but I am looking for questions to practice... I've done the old sae questions... I am just looking for something like usmleworld or kaplan qbank, just a bank of questions to self asses...

I think I know exactly what you mean.

We had access to "old board questions", for whatever worth that was...3 similar questions? Who knows. I suppose it was reassuring to feel like I knew the answer to a worthless, nitpicky, esoteric question that I almost certainly would not have known based upon training for real-world clinical scenarios. (A question that likely would/should eventually be dropped.)

A few years after becoming a faculty member at a large PMR program, I received a not-so-subtle reminder from one of the senior faculty that my enthusiasm for "knowledge-sharing (board preparation) activities" with the residents (I kept my questions) was drawing attention that I shouldn't want to have. In other words, I was told that I had better shut up about my hoard of old board questions. Moreover, they drilled the residents into fearing access to the old board questions, and that was that. No one wanted to openly ask for the questions, and I didn't want to openly share them anymore. It really wasn't worth the risk of getting into trouble with the ABPMR (particularly for what would have amounted to just a few points, among residents who would have certainly passed anyway.) My knowledge sharing activities continued, albeit in a modified format with "sanctioned" (non-old-board question) materials.

I would stick with the "sanctioned" board review books, and review materials.

 

[ampaphb]

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