Pain Board Review!

[Ligament]

Crap, just passed my PM&R boards and now the pain boards coming up in September. I'm debating whether to take one of the review courses. Taking a week off from private practice for one of these courses will be very expensive for me. Do you guys have any advice?

I've got Pain Medicine: Just the Facts, by Staats and Wallace. Excellent review book.

http://www.amazon.com/Pain-Medicine...1948141?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1184018120&sr=8-1

I also have Raj's review book but it is poorly edited and out of date at this point.

I have the DanneMiller Pain Medicine Review CD-ROM set, which includes 50 lectures (powerpoint and audio). As far as I can tell, it contains all the information of the week long courses they offer. It looks good so far.

http://www.pain.com/cd_registration/

Then there is the Jensen "Pain Killer for the Boards" book. It focuses primarily on keywords, ie. items that have been tested in the past. He also offers a short review class in which he goes over old board questions, but does not give you a print out of these questions.

http://www.boardprep.com/pain/index.asp

Then there is the ASIPP class. Week long, $1500. I have not heard anything about this one.

http://www.asipp.org/documents/August2007_Nashville.pdf

There is another class offered in wisconsin that is supposedly good as well,

http://www.ocpd.wisc.edu/Documents/Program_Documents/file988.pdf

Advice appreciated.

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[drusso]

I think that DanneMiller is the way to go. Wouldn't be nice if some device manufacturing company offered the CD's to graduating fellows as an educational gift??

 

[mehul_25]

are you guys thinking of going to DanneMiller or just using the CDs. How much are the CDs?

 

[Ligament]

The CDs are $499. You still get the same pain question bank access that the course attendees get as far as I can tell. From what I gather, the CDs contain the full audio recordings and powerpoint slides of last years pain review class...ie the same as being there last year minus the ability to ask questions and hit on the smokin' hot pain docs in the class. Maybe I'm totally wrong on my assumptions, but what would be the point of going to the DanneMiller pain review course in person this year if you can get the CDs for cheaper???

are you guys thinking of going to DanneMiller or just using the CDs. How much are the CDs?

 

[lonelobo]

Crap, just passed my PM&R boards and now the pain boards coming up in September. I'm debating whether to take one of the review courses. Taking a week off from private practice for one of these courses will be very expensive for me. Do you guys have any advice?

I've got Pain Medicine: Just the Facts, by Staats and Wallace. Excellent review book.

I also have Raj's review book but it is poorly edited and out of date at this point.

I have the DanneMiller Pain Medicine Review CD-ROM set, which includes 50 lectures (powerpoint and audio). As far as I can tell, it contains all the information of the week long courses they offer. It looks good so far.

http://www.pain.com/cd_registration/

Then there is the Jensen "Pain Killer for the Boards" book. It focuses primarily on keywords, ie. items that have been tested in the past. He also offers a short review class in which he goes over old board questions, but does not give you a print out of these questions.

http://www.boardprep.com/pain/index.asp

Then there is the ASIPP class. Week long, $1500. I have not heard anything about this one.

http://www.asipp.org/documents/August2007_Nashville.pdf

There is another class offered in wisconsin that is supposedly good as well, however based on the website it is unclear whether they are offering it for 2007:

http://www.orthorehab.wisc.edu/rehab/pain_review_symposium/2006brochurefinal.pdf

Advice appreciated.

Went to ASIPP course two years ago , thought it was well run.
Lots of practice questions and test on daily basis with feedback same day
helped solidfy some of the concepts.

good luck

 

[jsaul]

I took and passed the boards last year. i went to the asipp course and thought I would have been better served if I just studied during that time period

 

[Ligament]

I took and passed the boards last year. i went to the asipp course and thought I would have been better served if I just studied during that time period

Hi Jsaul,

Would you care to expound as to why, and also, what would you have studied at home? Asipp materials or something else?

Thanks!

 

[mehul_25]

Any thoughts on Jensen?

 

[jsaul]

Hi Jsaul,

Would you care to expound as to why, and also, what would you have studied at home? Asipp materials or something else?

Thanks!

the lectures were not so good. i found it would be more time efficient if I just read during that time rather than sit there through all those lectures. If I took a week off and studied rather than take a week off and go to that course- I probably would have scored higher. not that I'm complaining. I'm happy that I passed.

 

[Doctodd]

Dannemiller was great .....very fast paced. They fly through the course....as it SHOULD be a review course.

T

 

[mehul_25]

The CDs are $499. You still get the same pain question bank access that the course attendees get as far as I can tell. From what I gather, the CDs contain the full audio recordings and powerpoint slides of last years pain review class...ie the same as being there last year minus the ability to ask questions and hit on the smokin' hot pain docs in the class. Maybe I'm totally wrong on my assumptions, but what would be the point of going to the DanneMiller pain review course in person this year if you can get the CDs for cheaper???

how's it going with the Dannemiller CDs? Finding them useful?

 

[DJV]

I'd like to purchase DanneMiller Pain Medicine Review CD-ROM used for cheaper. If anyone is willing to sell it for cheaper let me know. Thanks.

 

[drrinoo]

look on ebay. there was a guy selling the audio cds and dvds, but no cme credits. the 2006 ones were cheap.