How Not to Lose Your Mind When Preparing for Your Boards
If you engage in the behaviors below, you are in danger of losing your mind while in the process of preparing for your board exam. You spend more time worrying about the board exam than studying for...
View ArticleThe World’s Biggest USMLE Step 2 ck QBank Now Available
Our QBank team has been hard at work over the last several months developing, compiling, and vetting our new USMLE Step 2 ck QBank. It’s not just any old QBank though – it’s the world’s largest QBank...
View ArticleHow to Get the Most from Group Study for Board Exams
Preparing for your board exam can be done alone or with a partner or group. (From now on, I’ll write ‘group’ when referring to group or single partner.) Studying in a group for board exams has several...
View ArticleA Perfectionism That Will Kill Your Exam Performance
This week we completed our 5-Day Psychiatry Board Prep Course in Chicagoland. (It was great to see and speak with so many colleagues there.) At the course, I received several questions from our...
View ArticleHow to Pace Yourself on ABPN Board Exams with Linked Vignettes
Question: “Dr. Jack, how do you recommend pacing ourselves during the clinical vignette sections of the ABPN board exam? You mentioned aiming for 70 seconds a question but how would that work if there...
View ArticleShould I Maintain My Board Certification for as Long as I Practice?
My answer for myself is: Yes, I would always maintain my board certification for as long as I see patients. I would not practice with lapsed board certification. Here I present my reason – yes, I have...
View ArticleBridging the Gap: The Benefits of Telepsychiatry in Addressing the...
The demand for psychiatric services in the United States has been steadily increasing over the years, especially during and since the COVID-19 pandemic. However, an alarming shortage of psychiatrists...
View ArticleWhy Taking a Board Review Course at the Last Minute is a Good Idea
I know I’m biased in favor of board review courses to help you prepare for board certification exams. After all, I started the Beat The Boards! courses and continue to present many lectures at several...
View ArticleShould I Take a Combined ABPN Board Exam?
If you’re reading this, it probably means you’re double or triple boarded and you’re struggling to decide whether to take a combined ABPN board exam or, instead, take the two or three individual...
View ArticleWhat to Study if You’re Repeating an ABPN Board Exam
Repeating an ABPN board exam? If you’re studying for an ABPN board exam that you previously took and did not pass, the question you confront is how you should prepare this time around. Here’s the first...
View ArticleWhy the Oasis Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Conference Is Great for...
I regularly hear from non-psychiatrists, especially from pediatricians and primary care providers, how unaligned their training was to the types of problems their patients present with. A major...
View ArticleTelemedicine Models: How to Harness the Power of Telehealth for Success in...
Telemedicine has revolutionized healthcare, leveraging electronic information and telecommunications technologies to provide clinical services, patient education, and health administration from a...
View ArticleThe World’s Biggest USMLE Step 2 ck QBank Now Available
Our QBank team has been hard at work over the last several months developing, compiling, and vetting our new USMLE Step 2 ck QBank. It’s not just any old QBank though – it’s the world’s largest QBank...
View ArticleBenefits of In-Person Attendance at the Beat The Boards! Psychiatry...
Our annual live Beat The Boards! In Person Psychiatry Review Course is coming up in July. Let me share the benefits – as I see them – of attending this course in-person. Pros of In-Person Psychiatry...
View ArticleWhat Are Dimension 1 and Dimension 2 on the ABPN Exam, and How Do They Affect...
Here’s a representative question I received from a colleague preparing for the ABPN exam. “What exactly do we study for Dimension 2? Is it just interwoven into all the other topics? There are a bunch...
View ArticleNeurology Topics on the ABPN Psychiatry Board Exam
There are two questions I get asked related to neurology disorders on the ABPN psychiatry board exam: Are the neurocognitive disorders included in the neurological disorders category? What should I...
View ArticleABPN® Exam: What’s in Scope and Out of Scope on the Psychiatry Board Exams?
As part of our ongoing quality assurance, I’ve been reviewing and addressing comments left by learners regarding specific multiple-choice questions that make up our ABPN® exam psychiatry 2300+ question...
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