I'm wondering how much money the people running the PRITE exam are paid given how terrible it is. I realize that it's not easy to make a good exam. If this thing was barely funded, I could understand why it's so bad. If it got a heck of a lot of money, I'd think it'd be infuriating.
Due to the skewed medical culture of placing all-importance on multiple choice exams that are hours long while ignoring or downplaying other important aspects of clinical practice, every resident thinks this exam is very important. It's not, and it doesn't deserve the level of fear it typically instills in PGY-1s, unless your specific program, outside the recommendations of even the PRITE, somehow used it to gauge residents in a manner that relevantly affected them.
A bad PRITE score is only of concern IMHO in 3rd year or higher, and even then, it shouldn't be the gold-standard. It could be a signal that you may need to study harder for the board exam, but does not IMHO accurately reflect the style of real written board exam, and that's the real proof-in-the-pudding. As I've written before, study psychiatry to pass the board exam, study it to be a better psychiatrist, and consider the PRITE to be one of those poorly written test books you likely had in medschool that after going through it, you realize it was a waste of time because the questions were so poorly done, and likely written by some non-academic doctor who never took the time to actually try to emulate the real exam, who pulled out zebra-questions that were of the variety you'd pretty much never see in clinical practice nor even see on the board exam, that made you lose sleep, then after you took the real exam you realized this test book was a POS that really didn't help you and just stressed you out, and then you get angry desire to burn it, but then in the process of lighting the match you start feeling like a Nazi so you stop............
