i am a first year omfs resident studying for omsite this year. what do you recommend reading, are there a lot of repeat questions from the 04 to 09 tests??
oral surgery OMSITE exam
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The test is pretty poorly written in my opinion. They asked very few questions about dentoalveolar, trauma, anesthesia, TMJ and orthognathics and a lot of questions about split thickness skin grafts, free flaps and cancer. This is fine if you are in a program that has a lot of these kind of patients but the majority of OMFS programs do not. I even got a question about balding pattern classifications!! It is just an example of how our specialty is trying to forget its roots. There is a push to get away from being the dentoalveolar experts that we are training to be and become extremely broad scoped. More power to you if that is your interest but I don't think that it is very representative of the majority of an OMFS residen't knowledge and interest.
So with that said, study stuff that you don't think they would ever ask. I do not remember many repeat questions but I do remember thinking, "Oh, I probably should have studied that stupid crap I thought they would not emphasize"
I ended up doing OK on the test even though I felt pretty clueless about a lot of the questions. I spoke to a friend of my that is at a different program and he felt the same way.
So with that said, study stuff that you don't think they would ever ask. I do not remember many repeat questions but I do remember thinking, "Oh, I probably should have studied that stupid crap I thought they would not emphasize"
I ended up doing OK on the test even though I felt pretty clueless about a lot of the questions. I spoke to a friend of my that is at a different program and he felt the same way.
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Hi I am taking it this weekend. Any advice? Haven't studied anything yet!!! Any last minute stuff you would recommend?
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lol I know this thread is 2 years old, anybody want to discuss the omsite with me? nelson? harris? c'mon guys. this upcoming one will be my 2nd omsite, I'm sure this old Asian hag can offer some advice to you young bucks (acutally I need help lol).
