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[BigBrownEyes]

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Good afternoon all,
I am currently a PGY-1 and will be starting PGY-2 year in Ophthalmology in 7/10. I was just wondering when do we take the Ophtho Boards? Is it offered immediately after completion of residency? Is it an exam only offered once a year? Do people normally take it after fellowship if they decide to go down that route?
I know these questions are coming early but it is better to be aware ahead of time on what to expect.
Good luck to all preparing for first year of ophtho, only 8.5 months to go🙂

 

[OMD]

Written Boards in March after graduation (about 8 months after completion). Only one date offered. Then, if you pass, oral boards are either in the following Sept/Oct or the next June (over a year after writtens). You are assigned the oral date without any option to state preference. Check the ABO website for details. www.abop.org

 

[echinoderm]

what kind of "prep" are you guys doing for first year of ophtho residency?

 

[JMK2005]

http://one.aao.org/CE/EducationalProducts/BCSC.aspx

Bought by most residency programs for you.

 

[echinoderm]

bummers, my program doesn't offer the BCSC until we start... any alternatives meanwhile?

 

[JMK2005]

bummers, my program doesn't offer the BCSC until we start... any alternatives meanwhile?

Don't worry. It's not a bummer that you won't be getting the BCSC until you start.

Try this http://www.ophthobook.com/ if you're bored. Enjoy intern year as much as you can and learn as much about being a doctor as you can.

 

[MstaKing10]

Don't worry. It's not a bummer that you won't be getting the BCSC until you start.

Try this http://www.ophthobook.com/ if you're bored. Enjoy intern year as much as you can and learn as much about being a doctor as you can.

Couldn't agree more. I remember during intern year worrying about preparation for ophtho, reading wills eye manual and optics. Fact is until you see it and work in it, all the pathology won't make any sense and you'll be wasting your time memorizing facts (trying to at least). Spend your intern year, weather it be transitional, medicine, surgery or whatever, getting the most out of your training. You will never have a chance to do this again and you would be surprised how useful it is to have general medicine or surgery experience in ophthalmology. We are mostly an outpatient field but in residency you will spend some time dealing with inpatients (as consults), and a working knowledge of general surgery or medicine is fundamental in these situations. Also don't forget that the eye is a commonly secondarily involved from a systemic disease. Good training in general fields keeps you cognizant of this fact and will make you a more well rounded and quite frankly better ophthalmologist.

That said, the basic science books does have a book on internal/general medicine that may be useful to review. I've skipped this book every year for OKAPS and have done well (probably cuz I took my own advice, see above!), but may not be a bad idea to read it now while you're doing your intern year.

My 2 cents.