Oral boards for ophthalmology

[Esteban Deltoro]

I found out last week that I passed the WQE. I am scheduled for the May 2025 oral boards. Trying to decide my strategy of study. Seems like OphthoGenie is the study modality of choice these days. Also all the books Pemberton, Friedman, Wills, etc. seems like Denver course better than osler too. I was going to focus on using OphthoGenie and Wills and supplement with other sources as above if needed. What do you all think of that strategy? Good or bad? Also going to try to find a buddy to study with for the test. If someone needs a study buddy please let me know. Also if someone has used OphthoGenie and passed let me know your experience. Wishing everyone good studying and good studying and passing!

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[DrZeke]

Strategy seems fine. Need to make sure you practice out loud and eventually time yourself. Wills is super helpful and Friedman is helpful to quickly review a topic. If you take a board prep the best way to get the most out of it is to come there ready and prepared. If unprepared it is a waste of money. Need to be able to practice. Have a system for how to approach the questions. Study as much as you need to depending on your strengths and weaknesses with oral test taking. Don't listen to people who tell you to wing it 😉

 

[Gonio5]

Looks like the oral boards are in May. The ABO website says May 2-3, 2025. Only two days? Not Sunday, May 4th? Or a typo?

Is Colorado not offering a mock oral exam? The San Antonio course in February or March as a short course, more like a preview than a course. Osler of course.

 

[idkididk]

Looks like the oral boards are in May. The ABO website says May 2-3, 2025. Only two days? Not Sunday, May 4th? Or a typo?

Is Colorado not offering a mock oral exam? The San Antonio course in February or March as a short course, more like a preview than a course. Osler of course.

Gonio, I'm registered for the 5/3 session. It's only 5/2 and 5/3.

I looked for the Colorado course earlier this year but could not find any info

 

[idkididk]

Well took the exam this weekend and it was awful.. Multiple diagnoses I could not hit. Optics felt the worst. I felt bad after the written exam but this was just devastation..

 

[Wandering Eyes]

Well took the exam this weekend and it was awful.. Multiple diagnoses I could not hit. Optics felt the worst. I felt bad after the written exam but this was just devastation..

I feel you. Same here. I felt the questions were super unfair. Also, so much for the presentation style the ABO recommended that none of their examiners respected. Do you know other people who felt the same way, or are we the only two people. Perhaps if more people felt the same they would throw out some of these vague questions.

 

[peptidyl]

I feel you. Same here. I felt the questions were super unfair. Also, so much for the presentation style the ABO recommended that none of their examiners respected. Do you know other people who felt the same way, or are we the only two people. Perhaps if more people felt the same they would throw out some of these vague questions.

There’s 3 of us at least. It was so far from what I expected it felt like taking the wrong test. I was expecting talking through routine cases and ruling out life/vision threatening conditions. It does feel like they changed some things this time because that format was unexpected and IMO inconsistent with the their sample cases. I let them know on the survey and hope others do the same.