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[BIS40]

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sorry, this may have been covered numerous times..............but as a lucky SOB who just passed written exam, do any wily veterans out there have rec's for passing the orals? It seems part luck and subjective, but for all the money it cost..I would like to try and pass

Most seem to suggest Michael HO course (there are like 5/6 varieties) over Jensen for oral...........some just like Yao/Artusio, etc...etc....

Any advice from recent passers would be highly appreciated in formulating a strategy here.

Thanks😕

 

[UTSouthwestern]

sorry, this may have been covered numerous times..............but as a lucky SOB who just passed written exam, do any wily veterans out there have rec's for passing the orals? It seems part luck and subjective, but for all the money it cost..I would like to try and pass

Most seem to suggest Michael HO course (there are like 5/6 varieties) over Jensen for oral...........some just like Yao/Artusio, etc...etc....

Any advice from recent passers would be highly appreciated in formulating a strategy here.

Thanks😕

Try this post:

http://gasforums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=331489

 

[Noyac]

I took the Jensen course and it was OK. It may have been more of a waste of time. But it did instill some confidence in me. It allows you to get an idea of how prepared you are compared to others. I had no idea if I was well prepared, average or poorly prepared going into the course. You sit there in a auditorium and watch one person after another get grilled in front of a large crowd just as if they are taking an oral exam. You don't know how you are going to perform until you are up there. But while out in the crowd you watch people make mistakes and go down paths that you would never consider taking. You see how some people really stuggle with communication. You see how being argumentative is the wrong approach. Then you get to sit up there yourself and find out just how well you perform under pressure. This may be the biggest benefit to the course. You have the knowledge you just don't know how well you will perform under the pressure. I think the course is good for those that are unsure of how they will perform when someone is grilling them that they don't know and that can be intimidating. I didn't think it was a waste of money.

 

[Intubate]

I didn't take a course, but I did study a lot. I read Board Stiff Too 4 times (do the practice tests out loud, even by yourself). If you think its dumb to do the same practice test over and over, you're wrong. Its about being able to think AND regurgitate.

I also made a huge stack of notecards by going through Anesthesia and Coexisting Disease and Anesthesia Secrets. I basically wrote a quick summary (front of the notecard) about anesthetic implications of various conditions (even if I knew them-- you have to be able to smoothly spit it out) like pulmonary htn, diabetes, COPD, etc. Then I went through the cards over and over and said the stuff out loud.

I had audio blue from residency, and listened to that a couple more times during my commute.

Finally I did about 4-5 mock orals with old attendings. This was helpful.

This was just the way I did it and its certainly not the way for everyone. If you know everything cold that you've learned since you started med school, you'll be fine