I think the best prep course for the written boards was The Pass Machine, it was better than the Jensen course, but that depends on what kind of review you like. Jensen was questions only, and the pass machine was lecture and questions. So if you are a lecture person, then the pass machine is for you, but if you want extra questions, then jensen is for you.
If anyone wants a $52 off code for the pass machine, PM me and I will hook you up.
Thanks for you note, and I appreciate and respect your view. I will let people know that this particular lecture course, which is still relatively new, is apparently focused and doing a good job for people. I know more than one lecturer personally as they took my courses, and they are very fine anesthesiologists.
The key is focus, focus, focus upon the key word content domain of the ABA. The discounts and codes and this sort of thing are nice for some because, really, for many of our colleagues it doesn't much matter where they go or what they do; their chances of passing are very good.
The issue with lecture courses which I personally have is that they often lack key word focus and they can be inefficient and even, well, boring. Having said this, I read in another post that I'm nothing more than a "crappy motivational speaker," so I guess nothing and no one is exactly perfect.
I also would respectfully submit that in my experience of having my own lecture course 15 years ago where we did lectures in the morning and questions-answers in the afternoon, and then flipped to questions-answers in the morning and lectures in the afternoon, it was the uniform consensus of the group that we drop the lecture format.
As a teacher and lecturer, I, too, felt there was a tremendous drop off in efficiency of coverage of Board related material when we went to lectures. Again, for some, this makes no difference, but for some of us who struggle with focus and struggle on these stupid standardized tests it does make a difference.
My personal and honest view is therefore this: when it comes to courses and not that everyone needs or desires to attend one by any means, but when it comes to courses, there is simply no format that can hold a candle to an effective, well-run question and answer course which reviews the top topics likely to be tested.
Again, however, I respect anyone and everyone who wants to help highly motivated people like many of you change and move on with their lives. So none of this is meant with any disrespect whatsoever to my friends and colleagues who are doing this in other valuable ways. Respectfully, Niels F. Jensen.
