How to Prepare for ITE's during Intern Year

[Reignmaker]

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Matched this year into an Advanced Anesthesiology program (hallelujiah!) with a prelim IM year.
I received a letter recently saying that I will be taking an ITE in March of my intern year along with an expected percentile that I should score in.

When would you suggest I take my Step III? Before or after?
What books/question banks would you suggest to prepare for the ITE?

Thanks ahead of time for your help!

 

[Bertelman]

Matched this year into an Advanced Anesthesiology program (hallelujiah!) with a prelim IM year.
I received a letter recently saying that I will be taking an ITE in March of my intern year along with an expected percentile that I should score in.

When would you suggest I take my Step III? Before or after?
What books/question banks would you suggest to prepare for the ITE?

Thanks ahead of time for your help!

what percentile do they expect?

 

[lane]

Read Baby Miller and do the Hall questions a few times

 

[pie944]

Matched this year into an Advanced Anesthesiology program (hallelujiah!) with a prelim IM year.
I received a letter recently saying that I will be taking an ITE in March of my intern year along with an expected percentile that I should score in.

When would you suggest I take my Step III? Before or after?
What books/question banks would you suggest to prepare for the ITE?

Thanks ahead of time for your help!

I did a TY year, had my anesthesia rotation in Jan, read Baby Miller during that, didn't do anything else for the ITE. I think Baby Miller is a great book for starting out, easy read with a lot of high yield facts, but a fair amount of depth in it as well for such a compact text.

Step III, I didn't take it my TY year due to a lack of funds. I put it off CA1/CA2 year, finally took it in Sept of this year. Never been more scared of a test in my life, but it worked out. In hindsight, I would have taken it earlier because I did not realize that if you fail(unlikely but happens) you are suppose to wait 12 months before taking it again. I have a friend who this happened to, he ended up getting them to allow him to retake it after 6 months, but having this occur during your final year can be a recipe for disaster with state licensing, fellowship, jobs on the line.

 

[PMPMD]

Matched this year into an Advanced Anesthesiology program (hallelujiah!) with a prelim IM year.
I received a letter recently saying that I will be taking an ITE in March of my intern year along with an expected percentile that I should score in.

When would you suggest I take my Step III? Before or after?

Depends what state you're in - they have different requirements on how many months of training are required prior to taking step 3 (varies from 0, 6, 9, 12). See FSMB requirements. You may not be able to take it until after a full year of PGY-1. I would take it towards the end of intern year, if you have an easy rotation or 2, and you meet the state-specific requirements.

What books/question banks would you suggest to prepare for the ITE?

Start with the basics - Baby Miller, Morgan/Mikhail. You don't need a tome to get 25th %ile as a 'tern (commonly used cutoff).

Thanks ahead of time for your help!

 

[bigdan]

I agree with the above recommendations.

I personally used Morgan's Lange text, and if you can get through the first several chapters, you'll be golden. Using your intern year to read about you patients, and then the anesthetic implications, would do you well, too. That way you'll have some reinforcement of what you're reading, and you'll be ahead of the game when starting CA1 year. Stoelting's Anesthesia & Co-Existing Disease is a perfect text for that function.

Congrats on Matching, by the way.

 

[Trisomy13]

Read Baby Miller and do the Hall questions a few times

This

 

[Reignmaker]

Thanks for all the responses and words of encouragement! They want us to get within the 37th percentile. I will definitely get Baby Miller and do as many questions as possible. Hope you guys had a great weekend 🙂

 

[TIVAndy]

Read Baby Miller and do the Hall questions a few times

I'm sorry if this sounds ignorant, but what are the hall questions? is it a book? or is it an online question bank?

thanks

 

[pie944]

I'm sorry if this sounds ignorant, but what are the hall questions? is it a book? or is it an online question bank?

thanks

Question book.

http://www.amazon.com/Anesthesia-Co...pert-Consult/dp/032306857X/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

 

[TIVAndy]

thanks for the reply!

 

[lane]

Question book.

http://www.amazon.com/Anesthesia-Co...pert-Consult/dp/032306857X/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

There's also an iPad/iPhone app for $50 that has the same questions and explanations without flipping back and forth between pages

 

[pie944]

There's also an iPad/iPhone app for $50 that has the same questions and explanations without flipping back and forth between pages

Damn, Android charges $70.

 

[Reignmaker]

There's also an iPad/iPhone app for $50 that has the same questions and explanations without flipping back and forth between pages

That's awesome - definitely taking advantage of that! thanks!

 

[floridaboy18]

Where is the iphone/ipad app? I looked in the store today and could not find it. I would love to be able to look at the Hall questions on my ipad. Seems like it would be much more efficient.

 

[lane]

Damn, Android charges $70.

The app store says it's $80 on iOS, but when you actually buy it through the app it charges $50

 

[lane]

Where is the iphone/ipad app? I looked in the store today and could not find it. I would love to be able to look at the Hall questions on my ipad. Seems like it would be much more efficient.

It's under elsevier anesthesia - the logo is the same purple design as the book with Elsevier across the bottom in an orange block, if that makes any sense

The actual name is Anesthesia: A Comprehensive Review for iPhone and iPad

 

[kazuma]

The app store says it's $80 on iOS, but when you actually buy it through the app it charges $50

You got a sweet deal, when I tried to buy it through the app it wanted to charge me $90. I'd pay 50 for it, but I'd rather not throw down another 90 bucks since I already paid 80 for the hard copy a couple years ago.