NBME (Miniboard) for Behavioral Sciences

[thatsnotmilk]

For those that have taken the NBME Behavioral Sciences:

I can't get a straight answer on this anywhere on the forums. In the back of both HY and BRS there are sections devoted to Biostats (type I error, p values, SD, etc) and Epidemiology. Are these sections tested on the miniboard? It was my understanding that behavioral science was just gonna be drugs, development, psych therapy, and psych diseases.

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[3dee]

For those that have taken the NBME Behavioral Sciences:

I can't get a straight answer on this anywhere on the forums. In the back of both HY and BRS there are sections devoted to Biostats (type I error, p values, SD, etc) and Epidemiology. Are these sections tested on the miniboard? It was my understanding that behavioral science was just gonna be drugs, development, psych therapy, and psych diseases.

I took the BS board in May. NO BIOSTATS OR EPIDEMIOLOGY. It follows the breakdown on the NBME website. Theres ethics, psych, drugs, and developmental milestones.

BRS and Kaplan videos were great preparation. The board should be very easy if you do those.

 

[SlickNickMD]

There's no biostats, all i did was read FA and be "ethical" :/ and I broke a 700


I think medical ethics is common sense but there are some basic principles that you should probably review before you take it

 

[omn]

This isn't good advice, it isn't an easy exam and the brain functioning is far more tested than either the sample questions or the review books would lead you to believe. The Kaplan mentions that certain parts are high yield but the questions IN BS in Kaplan and BRS or UWorld aren't a good prep... The subject field in general is a bit too vague for anyone to be very confident about what is or what isn't the correct subject matter for this field...