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Sleep and Board Exams

January 31, 2019 by Jack Krasuski, MD Leave a Comment Categories: All Posts Tags: enough sleep to pass exam, how much sleep should i get for my board exam, jack krasuski, preparing for board exam, sleep and board exams, the pass machine, tips for board exam

I’m about to tell you something so obvious about sleep and board exams that you may want to throw something at me. Despite the apparent obviousness, many exam candidates still will make the mistake I’m about to describe and do so for entirely understandable reasons. Let me explain. On the day (or several days) prior to your board exam, your anxiety level likely will increase. You may realize you are not as prepared as you would like to be and… Click to Read More

VIDEO: 5 Tips to Minimize Procrastinating on Your Board Exam Studies

January 22, 2019 by Jack Krasuski, MD Leave a Comment Categories: All Posts Tags: american physician institute, board exam study tips, board exam studying, how to stop procrastinating, jack krasuski, procrastination, the pass machine

Welcome. It’s Dr. Jack and I have 5 tips for you on how to minimize procrastinating on your board exam studies. Tip 1: De-Emotionalize the Job You Have to Do My first tip is based on a thought experiment. I’d like you to take a minute to imagine that you have a clone of yourself, and your clone is identical to you. They have the same bright smile and winning personality that you do. There is only a single… Click to Read More

Fear of Board Exam Failure

January 17, 2019 by Jack Krasuski, MD Leave a Comment Categories: All Posts, Board Exam Tags: exam failure, jack krasuski, what if i fail my board exam

Fear can make us behave in counterproductive ways, including how we respond to an upcoming medical board exam. We have set ways of responding to fear – fight, flight or freeze. Classically, fear is defined as an emotion triggered by imminent danger, as we would experience if we saw an aggressive person running toward us or if we heard breaking glass in our house as we were lying in bed. Anxiety is defined as an emotion triggered by non-imminent dangers… Click to Read More

Using Rational Statistics to Improve “Educated Guessing”

January 11, 2019 by Joshua Lumbley, MD Leave a Comment Categories: All Posts Tags: board exam prep, board test taking tips, josh lumbley, joshua lumbley, test prep tips, test taking strategies, the pass machine

So, you’ve spent the hours reviewing all of the important details for your board exam. You’ve done your best to target the weak areas, spending extra time focusing on topics that you didn’t quite master the first time through. And, perhaps most importantly, you’ve spent a considerable amount of time and effort doing practice questions and exams—all written by different authors—completed with time constraints in a variety of environments. By all measures, you are ready for this exam. Once in… Click to Read More

Recognizing Zebras in General Surgery Clinical Vignettes

January 4, 2019 by Jack Krasuski, MD Leave a Comment Categories: All Posts, General Surgery Tags: general surgery, general surgery board prep, how to prepare for the general surgery board exams, the pass machine

Prepping for a General Surgery Board Exam? Get a comprehensive General Surgery Qualifying or General Surgery Certifying review course from The Pass Machine to get your board prep on track. Medical exam boards take pride in clinically relevant and fair multiple-choice questions. This simply means the board is not trying to trick you. Most of the case vignettes describe a patient who has a common form of the disease. After all, we as physicians spend the majority of our time… Click to Read More

Treatment Algorithms on Anesthesiology Board Exams

December 27, 2018 by Jack Krasuski, MD 2 Comments Categories: All Posts, Anesthesiology Tags: anesthesiology, anesthesiology board exam, beat the anesthesiology boards, how to pass the anesthesiology board, treatment algorithms, treatment algorithms in anesthesiology

Prepping for an Anesthesiology Board Exam? Get a comprehensive ABA BASIC or ABA ADVANCED board review course from The Pass Machine to get your board prep on track. For the most part, clinical knowledge is tested by the medical board exams. Assessment of knowledge about treatment interventions are common questions on the anesthesiology board exams. Primarily, three different treatment aspects can be tested: Details about specific treatment interventions Treatments of disease variants and in particular populations Treatment algorithms This post… Click to Read More

Getting Ready for the General Surgery Boards

December 18, 2018 by Sarah Bryczkowski Leave a Comment Categories: All Posts, General Surgery Tags: board exam prep, board exam tips, general surgery board prep, how to prepare for the general surgery board exams, sarah bryczkowski

Prepping for a General Surgery Board Exam? Get a comprehensive General Surgery Qualifying or General Surgery Certifying review course from The Pass Machine to get your board prep on track. Studying for the General Surgery Boards is similar to studying for USMLE Step 1; you have already been taught everything that you need to know for the exam, but at the same time you have no idea what to expect or how to study. The ABSITE is a good way… Click to Read More

Treatments in Specific Patient Populations for Anesthesiology

December 12, 2018 by Jack Krasuski, MD Leave a Comment Categories: All Posts, Anesthesiology Tags: anesthesiology, anesthesiology board exam, Anesthesiology board exam prep, beat the anesthesiology boards, how to pass the anesthesiology board

Prepping for an Anesthesiology Board Exam? Get a comprehensive ABA BASIC or ABA ADVANCED board review course from The Pass Machine to get your board prep on track. There is a high percentage of questions focused on the treatment in medical board exams, as one of the reasons patients see the physician is for appropriate treatment. There are three treatment aspects tested in the specialty board exams: Specific treatment intervention details Treatment of disease variants and specific patient populations Treatment… Click to Read More

I Passed My Internal Medicine Board Exam on the First Try by Doing This

December 5, 2018 by Kashif J. Piracha Leave a Comment Categories: All Posts, Internal Medicine Tags: internal medicine board exam, internal medicine board tips, kashif piracha, passing internal medicine exam, the pass machine

Prepping for an Internal Medicine Board Exam? Get a comprehensive Internal Medicine Board Review Course from The Pass Machine to get your board prep on track. This blog post is written for physicians who are getting ready to take either their initial certification or recertification exam in internal medicine. I know it is a time of stress and apprehension for you as you prepare to take the internal medicine board exam, which is why I will provide you with some… Click to Read More

Treatment Interventions on Anesthesiology Board Exams

December 5, 2018 by Jack Krasuski, MD 2 Comments Categories: All Posts, Anesthesiology Tags: anesthesiology board exam, Anesthesiology board exam prep, how to pass the anesthesiology board, the pass machine, treatment interventions in anesthesia board exams

Prepping for an Anesthesiology Board Exam? Get a comprehensive ABA BASIC or ABA ADVANCED board review course from The Pass Machine to get your board prep on track. Anesthesiology Board Exams It is not a secret that the anesthesiology board exams test your knowledge regarding the details of numerous treatment interventions. Besides having the knowledge of the circumstances in which you have to choose a specific treatment intervention over another, it is also important to know the details regarding each… Click to Read More

Recognizing Zebras in Anesthesiology Clinical Vignettes

December 4, 2018 by Jack Krasuski, MD Leave a Comment Categories: All Posts, Anesthesiology Tags: anesthesiology, anesthesiology board exam, anesthesiology board prep, anesthesiology clinical vignettes, the pass machine

Prepping for an Anesthesiology Board Exam? Get a comprehensive ABA BASIC or ABA ADVANCED board review course from The Pass Machine to get your board prep on track. The anesthesiology boards do not attempt to trick you. In other words, they present multiple-choice questions that are fair and clinically relevant. This means that most of the anesthesiology clinical vignettes on the board exams will involve patients who have a commonly occurring form of a disorder. After all, the assessment and… Click to Read More

Treatment Algorithms on Internal Medicine Board Exams

November 30, 2018 by Jack Krasuski, MD Leave a Comment Categories: All Posts Tags: beat the internal medicine boards, internal medicine board exam tips, internal medicine board tips, the pass machine, tips for board exams, treatment algorithms, treatment algorithms in internal medicine board exams

The primary purpose of internal medicine board exams is to test clinical knowledge. Questions that evaluate the knowledge of treatment options are therefore commonly seen on these exams. The following aspects of treatment may be tested: Treatment options in specific populations Variation of treatments according to disease variants Details about particular treatment interventions Treatment algorithms This post focuses on treatment algorithms. Treatment algorithms can be defined as a rank order of treatment options that begin with first-line treatments and end… Click to Read More