Ive been noticing fellows who take their board exams after fellowship. How common is this? Do fellowship directors mind if you haven't taken the boards by the time youve started fellowship?
Ive been noticing fellows who take their board exams after fellowship. How common is this? Do fellowship directors mind if you haven't taken the boards by the time youve started fellowship?
It doesn't seem to be a problem at all. I have a former colleague who is taking her AP boards at the end of her second fellowship. Several of our current fellows did not sit for their boards before fellowship. I'm not sitting for my AP boards until October of my fellowship. I haven't heard of it being a problem at all, actually.
i disagree. when i was involved in hiring/interviewing people for our pp group, the failure to take and pass boards at the first opportunity was a red flag. you always wondered why didn't they take their boards, what were ther afraid of, are the weak, do they perceive themselves as weak, etc.
take and pass them as soon as possible.
when i was a resident we all took them in may of our last year (this was in the 70's) of ap/cp.
i disagree. when i was involved in hiring/interviewing people for our pp group, the failure to take and pass boards at the first opportunity was a red flag. you always wondered why didn't they take their boards, what were ther afraid of, are the weak, do they perceive themselves as weak, etc.
take and pass them as soon as possible.
when i was a resident we all took them in may of our last year (this was in the 70's) of ap/cp.
Another way delaying boards can bite you: I have heard that for at least some (maybe all?) fellowships that have their own boards, say like Forensics, you cannot sit for boards until you have passed AP. I know of at least one person who had been working a few years as a non-AP boarded forensic pathologist who eventually had to be let go because s/he failed AP multiple times and thus was not going to be able to take forensics boards.