why do I suck at cord tests???

[saintsfan180]

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Okay, these cord tests are horrible. I read the entire peds section in Tintinalli, did the practice exam and did way better than average for even PGY3's, and took the scored test and bombed it. What the crap? Why does this keep happening, my program is going to think I'm an idiot and fire me! Ugh why do they suck so bad????

 

[keeping-it-real]

FWIW the Cord tests are pretty bad. The information they test is often irrelevant or outdated. And I don't think there's any similarity between the Cord tests and the inservice/qualifying exam.

Get yourself the PEER questions if you want a relevant review. There is also a "1000 EM questions" book that is pretty good.

 

[saintsfan180]

Yeah I like 1000EM questions and I'm looking into getting PEER8. Unfortunately our program wants us to do like 8 cords per year or something like that and it just feels like a huge waste of time. I don't even think they review them really, but I feel like a *****. I might just stop, I don't think it's enforced really.

 

[Apollyon]

The CORD tests have always been crap. Always.

 

[bougiecric]

The CORD tests should be abandoned. I did horrible on them, but did fine on the inservice exams as well as the written boards. Honestly, CORD should be embarrassed by leaving them in their current state.

 

[RustedFox]

The CORD tests should be abandoned. I did horrible on them, but did fine on the inservice exams as well as the written boards. Honestly, CORD should be embarrassed by leaving them in their current state.

This.

When I was a PGY-1, we got the attendings to take the CORD tests themselves.

We didn't have to take them anymore after that.

 

[la gringa]

agree w/ all above mentioned comments on the CORD questions.

i remember them to be in a different style than the inservice or board questions, and testing on minutiae that isn't relevant to EM.

i also remember getting 70-75% of them correct, then getting high 80's on the inservice 2 years in a row.