Inservice 2009

Started by tkim
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To be honest, I had no idea what to expect. I had no preparation, and no one really talked much about it beforehand. Anyway, I found some questions to be pretty easy, and a whole bunch of them to be way out in left field.

What does everyone's program do with the in service scores?
 
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This is my first ITE, and I had no idea what to expect, but I guess it went ok, or atleast that whats I think. I maybe totally wrong, lets see. Those who have taken it before, can u guyz tell how long it takes to get the results?
 
I thought it was a mess. Way more ambiguous than last year.👎

Agreed 1000 per cent. Much worse than last year.

Maybe I'm just stupider (even by the use of that word I demonstrate my stupidity) :scared:

We'll see in a few weeks, I guess.
 
This is the first year I took it.

I used pretty much only the 1000 questions book. Did all the questions and read most of the explanations and took notes over the last 2-3 weeks.

I was surprised by how much overlap there was. I would swear some questions were practically identical...

We will see how the grade turns out; if I did even decently well (i.e. passed), I will swear by that 1000 question book!

I was surprised by the amount of peds that was on it; espically since we do a month of peds each year and I have not done mine yet. Much of the issues were covered in that book though...
 
This was my third one, and I thought the question distribution was a little different from the other two. In the past I'd say it was about 20% gimmes, 60% average, and 20% difficult out in left field questions. This time I felt there were more gimmes and more difficult questions without as many midrange.

Different programs do different things with the scores. Our program uses them as part of a checklist to get your moonlighting wings. If you score below a certain number, no moonlighting. So that's why people in my program care about it. Other than that, it's just a practice test to let you know where you stand on your book knowlege.

I think some programs use them to help pick chiefs.
 
Anyone know what's up? Going on 9 weeks now.

- R
 
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Scores are out. Got mine about 10 minutes ago (real thing, not a joke like my other thread).

heard from our program that the scores were recently FedEx'd and that programs should get hardcopies of the scores this week.
 
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