Pediatric Boards 2023
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Take advantage of your electives and read a book you prefer.
I would prefer that you do TrueLearn during residency beside PREP questions.
Before the exam, do Medstudy questions.
write notes of the questions you answered incorrectly and review them ( as a quick summary note) multiple times before the exam.
PBR book and the 50 questions are USLESS ( i know this is different from what you read in these forums). PBR audio is just a read of the book itself. Please don't waste your money.
If you think you will pass without studying, then get ready to struggle!
I would prefer that you do TrueLearn during residency beside PREP questions.
Before the exam, do Medstudy questions.
write notes of the questions you answered incorrectly and review them ( as a quick summary note) multiple times before the exam.
PBR book and the 50 questions are USLESS ( i know this is different from what you read in these forums). PBR audio is just a read of the book itself. Please don't waste your money.
If you think you will pass without studying, then get ready to struggle!
A bit of counterpoint.
I failed the first time I took it and with PBR the second time around I increased my score by 17 and passed.
If you are like me who needs multi-modal repetition to get things to stick, then PBR is a godsend. They also will make you a schedule to keep you accountable.
Of course doing lots of questions is also important.
I failed the first time I took it and with PBR the second time around I increased my score by 17 and passed.
If you are like me who needs multi-modal repetition to get things to stick, then PBR is a godsend. They also will make you a schedule to keep you accountable.
Of course doing lots of questions is also important.
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Does anyone have the 2022 PDF for
PEDIATRICS BOARD REVIEW: Your EFFICIENCY BLUEPRINT to Passing the Pediatric Boards
Suck it up and pay for it like the rest of us.
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It's crunch time guys.
redrover.picu
Full Member
Anxiety is ramping up... Finished Medstudy Qbank, 2023 prep, almost done 2022... Just hoping all of this is going to be enough.
Same here. This is my second time taking it, so I've been going ham on questions (PREP, Truelearn, Boardvitals) + PBR.
pedsdocusa
New Member
I'm getting about 75% right on PBR practice questions, what's everyone else getting? I'm not sure if this is good enough
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Anyone comfortable sharing what they got on the 200-question practice ABP exam?
I got a 75% this past weekend but I don’t know if that’s enough—I’m nervous because they say a “score of 80% or greater on the self-assessment is an indication that satisfactory performance may be achieved on the secure examination.”
So I'm taking it a second time. I scored a 175. At the time I scored a 79.5% on the assessment. Not to scare you, I think there were other factors that may have played a role in me not passing (including overall test taking skill as opposed to content)
Thanks for sharing. Some of the ABP practice questions were surprisingly very short, some you just needed to pick out one key word/phrase to get to the answer. Do you feel like the actual board questions were similar?
Does each question on the actual test have 4 answer choices or 5?
I no longer have acces to ABP self assessment.Is anyone able to message me/send it?
redrover.picu
Full Member
With a choice between another year of PREP questions, continuing 2nd pass through MedStudy qbank, or Medstudy flashcards - what would you prioritize?
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I vote for the flashcards and daily questions to stay in shape!
What are some good last minute resources to review? Like compilation of high yield easy to confuse topics. Such as a table of all common AD, AR, X-link disorders etc.
Anyone else remembering a bunch of easy questions they got wrong? It’s really stressing me
pedsdocusa
New Member
Anyone know when results are posted?
steven_culberg
New Member
Anyone have the MOC dashboard on their landing page? It also says expires 12/31/2028. Wonder if it means anything, prob thinking too much.
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i do not and, of course, now i'm freaking out. sigh. anyone else have this?
pediatrician23
New Member
I do not either. I did call them today and they said "we do not have an official date for the results yet but it should be either this week or next week."
I hate this wait. I keep checking when realistically it won’t come until weds or even next week
Could you explain what you mean?
I thought the dashboard/the final date has always been there…
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*sigh* I failed. I know someone else is scouring these pages seeing all the “passes” and feeling bad. You are not alone
Failed again. 4th fail. Same exact score as last year. 178.
Did you do anything differently this time?
Passed third attempt. I don't know how mentally I could have done it again. This year, I focused a lot more on test strategy and PREP questions. I realized it wasn't as much about the nit picky Medstudy stuff, although overall I was scoring higher than the year before.
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for those who feel shattered, i fully understand. i finally passed on my fifth attempt
i know the heartbreak. i know the despair after spending so much time and effort. i know the embarrassment and shame
what i did differently this year:
1. i created a spreadsheet that compared score reports for each past year. based on that, i ranked each of the content sections in order of which needed the most help
2. i then created a weekly schedule to hold me accountable. i work full time, so i knew i couldn’t spend hours each day. i dedicated like three hours each Sunday evening when my wife and kids were at church. during the week, maybe i would review a few things, but the weekend was it
3. im too far out to use prep. i didn’t want to pay for aap stuff. so i purely did medstudy. i went through the books meticulously. i created flashcards based on the content questions. i ended up not reviewing these as much as i thought i would, but the pure process of creating them was helpful
4. i went through ALL of it. the things that needed more work from the spreadsheet got multiple doses
5. starting about three months before the test, i started listening to the video reviews on my way to work. on the way home, i listened to mindless podcasts because my mind was fried from the day
6. i virtually attended the medstudy review course. i live on the west coast, so that meant waking at 3:30 to start at 4. it was like being in residency again… but the regimented nature was helpful. i sat in my home office and went to work. they have a ‘syllabus’ that is everything printed out, but i didn’t use it. i made a ‘journal’ and wrote down the things that stood out to me. some sections were two pages (pulm, urology). some were eight plus (ID, genetics)
7. from that point on, all i did was review that notebook. it was *me* who created it, so i knew everything in it and where to find it. also from that point on, all i did were questions
8. on the medstudy qbank, i usually did 25-40 questions at a time. about two months before, i started doing 100 questions blocks once a week to test. i only did study mode, because it helped with review. most of the time, averaged about 70-75% at this point. some days hit 80 and some days was in the 50s. just kept plugging away
i passed. after all this time. keep fighting for what you are after. it’s a test and it has absolutely no bearing on how good a pediatrician or person you are. you *can* do it
i know the heartbreak. i know the despair after spending so much time and effort. i know the embarrassment and shame
what i did differently this year:
1. i created a spreadsheet that compared score reports for each past year. based on that, i ranked each of the content sections in order of which needed the most help
2. i then created a weekly schedule to hold me accountable. i work full time, so i knew i couldn’t spend hours each day. i dedicated like three hours each Sunday evening when my wife and kids were at church. during the week, maybe i would review a few things, but the weekend was it
3. im too far out to use prep. i didn’t want to pay for aap stuff. so i purely did medstudy. i went through the books meticulously. i created flashcards based on the content questions. i ended up not reviewing these as much as i thought i would, but the pure process of creating them was helpful
4. i went through ALL of it. the things that needed more work from the spreadsheet got multiple doses
5. starting about three months before the test, i started listening to the video reviews on my way to work. on the way home, i listened to mindless podcasts because my mind was fried from the day
6. i virtually attended the medstudy review course. i live on the west coast, so that meant waking at 3:30 to start at 4. it was like being in residency again… but the regimented nature was helpful. i sat in my home office and went to work. they have a ‘syllabus’ that is everything printed out, but i didn’t use it. i made a ‘journal’ and wrote down the things that stood out to me. some sections were two pages (pulm, urology). some were eight plus (ID, genetics)
7. from that point on, all i did was review that notebook. it was *me* who created it, so i knew everything in it and where to find it. also from that point on, all i did were questions
8. on the medstudy qbank, i usually did 25-40 questions at a time. about two months before, i started doing 100 questions blocks once a week to test. i only did study mode, because it helped with review. most of the time, averaged about 70-75% at this point. some days hit 80 and some days was in the 50s. just kept plugging away
i passed. after all this time. keep fighting for what you are after. it’s a test and it has absolutely no bearing on how good a pediatrician or person you are. you *can* do it
