- Joined
- Jul 17, 2004
- Messages
- 7,250
- Reaction score
- 6
How much child psych is on this bad boy?
My attending was saying as much as 25%.
My attending was saying as much as 25%.
Is it recommended to learn when to use which psychotherapy and the exact mechanism of action of each drug (as opposed to the group i.e. SSRI / Antipsychotic)? I'm having a hard time on that stuff! Thanks!!
I thought that the standard was to begin with an atypical. I don't remember having any questions that got that picky. More important is to know the side effects of anti-psychotics. Again, everything you need to know is in First Aid for Psychiatry.
People have mentioned knowing the DSM IV criteria cold. I understand that I need to know time durations for various illnesses but does this also mean that I need to know "4 of the following symptoms" and the test gives me 3 or 5? or is it more obvious than one symptom swaying the answer choice?
People have mentioned knowing the DSM IV criteria cold. I understand that I need to know time durations for various illnesses but does this also mean that I need to know "4 of the following symptoms" and the test gives me 3 or 5? or is it more obvious than one symptom swaying the answer choice?
Bump.
Anyone have new suggestions who recently took the shelf?
How have the child psych questions been?
what about questions on piaget, freud, kohut, mahler, erikson, etc? should i even bother memorizing what their schools of thought are with age/staging?!
what about questions on piaget, freud, kohut, mahler, erikson, etc? should i even bother memorizing what their schools of thought are with age/staging?!
I found that there was an overemphasis on behavioral therapy, cognitive therapy, group therapy etc-probably close to 20 + questions on our test. For many situations, they would ask the treatment of x condition, only to list both the traditional pharmaceutical class/actual drug as well as the type of therapy that may be appropriate for treating that condition. Many of us were discussing which would be done first (other than the child enuresis question, which everyone agreed biofeedback first and then meds).
I was wondering when people say they used UWorld to prepare for the shelf, are they referring to the Step 2 question bank?
...
also - all this talk of using FA - referring to FA for psych clerkship or FA step 2ck?
Does it also include neurology?
...
p.s. Dragonwell, thought you did your psych rotation a while back, but you took shelf later?
I'm doing the Appleton and Lange Question book and there are a lot of questions asking about prevalences and percentages, do shelf exams test on this kind of stuff? It seems absurd.