Peds Boards are Coming, and I Need Advice...

[Residency Pleas]

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It has finally hit me that the boards are fast approaching and I need to really start studying. As of tomorrow, we've got 11 weeks. I recently started a busy fellowship in a new town, but I'm now getting adjusted and realize I have to really focus on the boards, because I really don't want to take this test more than once. I consider myself a decent test taker...not the worst, but certainly not the best. Somewhere middle of the pack. I want to make a study schedule now so that I can be prepared and not panicking at the last minute, because I'm not going to have a week off before the boards to cram or anything like that.

Here's what I have for study materials:
3 Years of PREP questions
Laughing Your Way
First Aid
Zitelli (for pictures?)
UCLA review course materials from 2005, given to me by an attending

I feel like I've acquired too much and maybe need to cut it down and focus on a couple of sources. Although I could probably give a quick glace to all of those sources in 11 weeks, I couldn't really master them all. If anyone has advice for a schedule of how I should approach the boards with what sources to focus on and in what order that would be awesome. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!

 

[SurfingDoctor]

I went through First Aid twice and did every question and really read every answer for 4 years of PREP.

Pick either Laughing or First Aid, but you don't need both. Some people sware by Zitelli's, but I didn't use it. They don't make the pictures on the test all that hard because they realize the photos don't show up well. I think the rashes/lesions sections of First Aid and PREP were good enough.

I don't know about the UCLA review course so I can't comment.

Basic rules: Study hard, study enough and do tons of questions.