Review Courses

[odieoh]

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My department pays for the senior residents to go to a board review course and I am debating between the Wills course and the Osler course. I have heard a lot of good things about the Wills course, including that many of the lecturers are those who write the questions for the boards. I don't know much about the Osler course. The osler course is in Tampa, vs Philly, so Osler wins as far as location.. .but I dont know anything about the quality of the course. Anyone have any input about this?

 

[toulouselautrec]

From what I understand, the Osler course is specifically for the preparation for the oral boards. One of our newer attendings took the Osler course and she thought it was helpful (but expensive--but of course!). The Wills course is more for the written boards.

As you'll be taking the written boards before the orals (and must pass the former before you can register for the latter), maybe you should consider going to Wills first. I'm going myself in the spring...

 

[Wolverine98]

From what I understand, the Osler course is specifically for the preparation for the oral boards. One of our newer attendings took the Osler course and she thought it was helpful (but expensive--but of course!). The Wills course is more for the written boards.

As you'll be taking the written boards before the orals (and must pass the former before you can register for the latter), maybe you should consider going to Wills first. I'm going myself in the spring...

Actually, Osler has both written and oral board prep courses.

I've heard good things about both (I took the Osler oral review, which I highly recommend). Since I had to use some of my "conference money", I went with two San Antonio course, since it's much, much cheaper than the other two.