Congrats to those who passed. I don't mean to take away from your victory, so please don't take this the wrong way, but I ask that we all step back for a second and look at this situation.
We are a group of doctors who have sacrificed years of our life to get through school and residency only to find ourselves bending over backwards to pass an exam written by an outside organization who has come into our profession, told us we have to answer 240 questions that they write in secret, pay them money, or we won't be "allowed" to practice medicine?!
That's ludicrous! At some point, we all need to realize that we're being screwed by the ABMS. This test should be a completely optional thing (as it was originally intended). We should stand up to our hospital administrators, stand up to insurance companies and tell them no more.
No one should have to take an entire month off of work and study 7am to 11pm just to answer some BS multiple choice questions that have virtually nothing to do with how we perform our jobs. The amount of stress, anxiety, and lost productivity this test has caused should have us all up in arms against the ABMS.
Thanks for letting me rant. But, I'm quite passionately serious about this problem we have.