When to take these exams?

[laptop]

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Usually, when do you take these exams, step3, written board, and oral board?

 

[Jeff698]

Step III during intern year sometime.

Written & oral exam first year (usually) after residency graduation.

Take care,
Jeff

 

[The White Coat Investor]

Written: November after graduation
Oral: April after graduation or the following Fall (October, I believe) You don't get to choose unless you're military (and will be in the Middle East during one of those tests.)

 

[Apollyon]

Written: November after graduation

Which you have to apply for by 31 August (at the latest), and, if you're a screw-up like me, and missed last year, look closely that you need 5 CME credits by 31 August, and scramble to get them online (which I did).

 

[laptop]

Sorry. I am more confused now...

1. Usually we take board exams after we graduate from the program? We don't need license/EM board certified to find a job?

2. I need CME credits to apply for the exam, license, or board certified? How to get it?

Thanks!

 

[southerndoc]

Sorry. I am more confused now...

1. Usually we take board exams after we graduate from the program? We don't need license/EM board certified to find a job?

2. I need CME credits to apply for the exam, license, or board certified? How to get it?

Thanks!

No, you do not need to be board-certified to find a job. Complete board certification won't happen until you pass the oral exams, which is either in April (if you're lucky) or October of the year following completion of residency.

There are a minority of hospitals that do not require you to become board certified at all. However, most hospitals are now requiring board certification, but will hire you as long as you are working toward certification.

 

[Apollyon]

If you're more than a year out from residency, you need to show CMEs.

As for board certification, I can't become partner in my group until I am board-certified.

 

[The White Coat Investor]

Which you have to apply for by 31 August (at the latest), and, if you're a screw-up like me, and missed last year, look closely that you need 5 CME credits by 31 August, and scramble to get them online (which I did).

WTH? 5 CME credits? I didn't get any CME credits between graduation and the written boards. What's that all about?

 

[Apollyon]

WTH? 5 CME credits? I didn't get any CME credits between graduation and the written boards. What's that all about?

If you're less that 1 year out from residency, you don't need any CMEs to sit for writtens (and then on to orals). If it's more than 1 year, you have to provided written proof of 5 CMEs.

 

[USCDiver]

Usually, when do you take these exams, step3, written board, and oral board?

I took my exam all through residency.