Family Medicine Board Review resources

[reshamu]

Other than ITE exams, AAFP questions, UWorld, are there any other resources anyone would recommend?

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[SilentCool]

Who studies for their first Board exam? Didn't you learn anything in residency...? 🙄

 

[jm192]

The AAFP has a nice lecture series that seems to point out a lot of the high yield questions.

Everyone says to go through old in-training questions, which I've done. And the lecture series lines up nicely with old questions.

Q-Bank wise, I've looked at a couple, and the most impressive was Board Vitals. They post a pass rate. They give a score correlation to what you need to answer on their questions to pass the real test. The questions actually seem hard compared to a few of the others seemed TOO easy.

 

[JonMonkey]

There is a phone app (iphone/android) called ABFM Exam Prep that I liked. It put all of the AAFP questions with explanations in app form. It is nice while you are on the go and not around your computer. Provides quick 10 question tests.

 

[primadonna22274]

Anybody else feel like the test was pretty random and a little bit nerve-wracking? I rocked all three of my ITEs and barely studied for step 3 but I left ABFM boards feeling a bit uneasy


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[teacherman84]

Anybody else feel like the test was pretty random and a little bit nerve-wracking? I rocked all three of my ITEs and barely studied for step 3 but I left ABFM boards feeling a bit uneasy


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Yeah, but 98.9% first time pass rate for US grads in 2016...supposed to be better this year with the new format. I have a hard time beryllium you could fall into that 1.1% if you've been above avg for 3 ITE exams.

 

[primadonna22274]

️️️️️️ thanks just feeling a little neurotic. Far above. The Bayesian score predictor gave me a less than 0.4% chance of NOT passing. Lol


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[teacherman84]

️️️️️️ thanks just feeling a little neurotic. Far above. The Bayesian score predictor gave me a less than 0.4% chance of NOT passing. Lol


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You'll prob be alright.
When are scores released? Do we find out before we graduate?

 

[primadonna22274]

Six weeks or so is what I'm told.


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[Freezeout]

You'll prob be alright.
When are scores released? Do we find out before we graduate?

I wanna say last year our folks knew their scores around May 20th. I'm getting married that day....so really hoping to not have that ruined by a score release.

 

[cabinbuilder]

I wanna say last year our folks knew their scores around May 20th. I'm getting married that day....so really hoping to not have that ruined by a score release.

That's the day I'm taking my 10 year recert. Ugh.

 

[jm192]

I reviewed all 3 ITE's I took.
I think there is dome degree of diminishing returns as you go further back as things continue to change, and my group would find incorrect/outdated answers and become confused.

I used Board Vitals as a Q Bank.

I used the AAFP video review, which I thought was excellent.

I guess we'll see how it went in a few more weeks.

 

[TableMD]

Hey

Just got a ABFM email that it will be mid June....Boo

 

[Freezeout]

Hey

Just got a ABFM email that it will be mid June....Boo

Better than the one that said July.

 

[primadonna22274]

No kidding! I saw mid-July and about DIED. This was the day after I got the "welcome to full AAFP membership" letter and now I don't know what that meant.


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[cabinbuilder]

9 more days to 10 year recert exam. So sick of doing questions on my days off. Can't come soon enough.

 

[primadonna22274]

BOARD CERTIFIED BABY!!!!! Thank you all for your support this past twelve years--I joined SDN in 2005 as a PA contemplating going back to med school. I talked myself out of it for another five years then bit the bullet. Now here we are in 2017 and I am truly humbled and blessed to be one of y'all.


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