Concerning the PRITE Exam

[ElJimador]

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Hello to all,

I hope your residencies are going well ... I am a PGY-1 and I wanted to ask some 2nd years about the PRITE exam.

I know that I should not worry about it, but see it as a tool to assess areas of improvement (and the first one is rather pointless as half our class will have had not psych by the time they take it and the other will have no neuro). However I wanted to get some idea about the exam and briefly review each section to some extent.

My questions are this:

1. Does anyone have some sample questions? I know we can order an entire exam that has been retired for $150 ... but this is sort of ridiculous- and I am fine with just a handful of questions as I would like to get a feel for them- I would not need the whole thing (on the other hand if someone has this on disk and would share it with me I would be quite grateful!)

2. I was thinking of finding a good review article or chapter for each section to review from ... is there anyone who could recommend a decent chapter for Geriatric Psychiatry and Pediatric Psychiatry? I will go with the standby of K&S if not.

Thanks in advance for any responses .... and best of luck!

-El Jimador

 

[OldPsychDoc]

The point of the PRITE as a PGY1* is to not give a **** how you do. 😀

Yes, read--but only because you should be reading anyway.
You'll get the test booklets back in January with the scores, so you'll have more sample questions than you want for next year's test.

*For 3s and 4s, yeah, start stressing--it's all about Board prep!

 

[Gabroo]

hey guys,
i'm a longtime lurker, but i have a question that i could not find an answer to....
i did a practice prite (part 1) and got a whopping 59 questions of 150 wrong. where does that place me in the curve? my answer key and google search didn't tell me how badly that was.

thanks!
gabroo

 

[Teufelhunden]

You can find about 100 free PRITE questions online at my site (url in signature line below). I'd love to hear any feedback regarding the quizzes; I put a lot of work into them.

 

[Doc Samson]

You can find about 100 free PRITE questions online at my site (url in signature line below). I'd love to hear any feedback regarding the quizzes; I put a lot of work into them.

I tried a few questions, and think I recognize a few from actual PRITEs. If you copied them directly the ACP will not be happy with the copyright violation. Nicely put together though.

 

[whopper]

I wouldn't worry too much about the PRITE until you pass Step III. The PRITE IMHO is a difficult exam but its much more enjoyable to study for that because its actually stuff that's real psychiatry. The USMLE as we all know will test you on many things that you will probably never use in psychiatric practice. This makes USMLE so frustrating because you're losing months of your life over something which such small relevance in psychiatry.

And--IMHO there's no good "go to" book to study for this exam. K&S has an exam study guide which reccomends you memorize a bunch of terms I have never seen in a PRITE exam such as "Forme Fruste". Heck, I've heard no psychiatrist even know what the heck that term is, and I've asked some of the top ones in the country.

Everyone talks about how we need to study from the MGH book, & K&S. Yet there's plenty of things on the PRITE that are tested that are not mentioned in either book.

I'm getting the impression that the best way to study for the PRITE is to just get a bunch of old PRITE exams. The residents in my program divided up all the PRITE questions from last year's exam among ourselves & answered all of them and several of the questions we'd have to spend over 2 hrs of research to find an explanation for the answer.

 

[chameleonknight]

Is it your website?



VVV e: Elementary, my dear pingouin.

 

[pingouin]

Is it your website?

it was, actually.