Oral certifying exam - new format

[Lexicon0]

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Is anyone else taking the new oral certifying exam this year? For those unaware, the board recently made changes to the format. The new exam will incorporate 10 cases from an examinees actual practice (including submission of actual patient records such as clinic notes, operative reports, scans, etc) as opposed to just testing 10 standard, generic cases in the past. This will be more in line with ortho, ob/gyn, PRS and neurosurgery.

I'm curious how candidates are studying for this since most available resources for the oral exam are obsolete.

 

[Gonio5]

How does that affect candidates don't have complicated cases, just some inguinal hernia repairs and breast biopsies?

 

[Pir8DeacDoc]

How does that affect candidates don't have complicated cases, just some inguinal hernia repairs and breast biopsies?

not sure too many ENTs are doing inguinal hernia and breast biopsy. lol

 

[Gonio5]

not sure too many ENTs are doing inguinal hernia and breast biopsy. lol

That's true but that was the general surgery example. Isn't there simpler, bread and butter cases that ENT surgeons do? What if they do mostly that and not a wide variety of surgeries and complex surgeries that are done in residency? How would that person do the orals? What if the person was in a group and did mostly non-surgical work, like vertigo?