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In person in Charlotte, looks like some sim cases/OSCE action…
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In person in Charlotte, looks like some sim cases/OSCE action…
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you can if you want to experience it by paying the fee. but no, not mandatory.I know this seems like a dumb question, but those of us already board certified don’t have to do this correct?
So people complaining about the oral exam and they want us to do some crappy OSCE
There's a summary linked to a description of the high-fidelity OSCE environment they're building –
"Each examination room will be equipped with a computer and simulated electronic health record typical of those found in emergency department nationwide. The keys on the computer keyboard will be engineered to a specific level of intermittently dysfunctional stickiness per our scoping surveys, and the mouse tracking will be jerky and imprecise.
During each OSCE, as the examiner prompts you with information about the case, you will be required to find the correct order set and respond to several simulated best practice alerts. Failure to properly execute the electronic ordering system will result in simulated nurse actors entering the room at later points in the exam, including in subsequent OSCE encounters, to interrupt and ask for clarification of prior orders.
You should also expect to be interrupted by circulating simulated ED technicians requesting EKG interpretation unrelated to the current case, as well as phone calls with critical lab values not necessarily related to your current case.
In further efforts to increase realism, examination rooms will be equiped with speakers capable of providing synthetic background noise including typical psychiatric and substance abuse vocalisations, construction noise, telephone rings, and call bell alarms. If you cannot hear the examiner due to the background noise, you may ask for prompts to be repeated, but they will provide reduced information at each subsequent request."
Please tell me that this is a creative writing joke/project that I wish I had written.
Medicine and Peds have moved to the modules during period of certification model also.So annual fees, then extra tests to do online on top of initial certification and then some weird practice improvement research crap.
Aren’t other specialties just asking you to take a test after 10 years will while abem is trying to be relevant and make it seem like the credentials mean something by going through all these hoops….
Even tho it's sarcastic it's a description of the highest fidelity simulation even imaginable and would be worth any fee to take
We don't, which is why I wasn't sure why ABEM sent me the email.I know this seems like a dumb question, but those of us already board certified don’t have to do this correct?
@xaelia made a delightful satire response to what is an actual change that is being made as posted by @Dr Mantis TobogganWait is this real or satire?
EM is such a stupid specialty, and the people running the specialty are even dumber and self-serving
Get off this Titanic before it fully sinks.
Well tbh anyone who started EM residency in 2022 or 2023 is kind of dumb. So they only have themselves to blame.
FWIW, I do generally appreciate the challenge of protecting the public by ensuring a competent medical workforce.@xaelia made a delightful satire response to what is an actual change that is being made as posted by @Dr Mantis Toboggan
FWIW, I do generally appreciate the challenge of protecting the public by ensuring a competent medical workforce.
As frequently crops up on other threads, every group seems to have that oblivious mouth-breather risk to patient safety or decaying fossil resistant to change in medical practice. Then, new resident graduates are a heterogeneous bunch with differing skills and affinity for practice improvement. How do you set the bar for minimum competency? How do you reliably assess it? How do you eliminate biases in this process?
Neither the ongoing milestone assessments from training nor one-off high-stakes written/oral/OSCE examinations are perfect tools. There will be folks who are going to be perfectly capable physicians who run up against a wall in one of those steps and have a legitimate beef – but how do you separate those from the folks who should spend the rest of their lives away from hands-on patient care?
These licensing boards (ABEM, ABIM, etc.) have mutated into vehicles for self-enrichment, unfortunately, but I do respect the greater problem faced when acting in good faith.
Because I want to do EMS since it's all I know so far 🥲This.
Why would you everrrr choose this speciality if you were matching in 2021 onward?
Really really dumb.
Like...absurdly dumb.
"Dead patients stacked in hallways, pay cuts, no PPE, poor job outlook, zero nurses? Mmmm yeah baby give me some of that."
EMRA = pathetically sad organization with a bunch of ACEP future leader wannabes.I don't remember being consulted about this. Do any of you? If they heard our concerns then the oral boards would cease to exist. Instead, they only care about making money.
Don't forget to sign the petition to end oral boards if you haven't already.
EMRA is also voicing its concerns about this and has issued a statement.
Please voice your concerns to EMRA!EMRA Has Your Back
We are advocates representing our members, protecting the practice of emergency medicine and supporting EM physician training.www.emra.org
Perhaps. However, so far, they are the only ones doing anything about it, unless you count comments on a forum holding much merit? If you have any better ideas on how to get our voices heard and make change then I'm all ears.EMRA = pathetically sad organization with a bunch of ACEP future leader wannabes.
Nah, oral boards were a good time. Bring back Chicago Marriott oral boards.I don't remember being consulted about this. Do any of you? If they heard our concerns then the oral boards would cease to exist. Instead, they only care about making money.
Don't forget to sign the petition to end oral boards if you haven't already.
EMRA is also voicing its concerns about this and has issued a statement.
Please voice your concerns to EMRA!EMRA Has Your Back
We are advocates representing our members, protecting the practice of emergency medicine and supporting EM physician training.www.emra.org