oral boards

/oral board books
Boarding Time: , Morrison and Munoz. August 2003, 3rd ed. $50.90. RC440.9.M67 2003
Clinical Study guide for the Oral Boards in Psychiatry, Nathan Strahl. not in library
Tasman's Pocket Companion to Accompany Psychiatry. 1997. 49.95. not in library
Psychiatric Interviewing: the Art of Understanding, Shawn Shea. 1998. 55. RC480.7.S54 1998
The Psychiatric Interview: A Practical Guide, Carlat. 2004. 37.70. RC480.7.C315 2005 checked out
The Psychiatric Interview in Clinical Practice, MacKinnon et al. 2006. 70. RC480.7.M25 2006. checked out

/oral boards web
"Successful Preparation for the Psychiatry Oral Exam, How to Effectively Organize your Interview, Oral Presentation, and Video Exam" by Michael Rayel
"Passing Strategies: A Helpful Guide for the Psychiatry Oral Exam" by Michael Rayel

/oral books per notes
psych interv- 2nd ed Carlisle
Zimmerman

/oral review board courses
Beat the Boards- which I'm using courtesy of SVR
www.psychboards.com Dr. J. Clive Spiegel, advertised at Kaufman's board review course
can take in chicago in august 12-15 or sep right before boards...

harvard intensive diagnostic interviewing
9/15-9/17
3-Day Physician Fee $1,245.00
Location: Courtyard by Marriott Brookline, 40 Webster Street, Brookline, MA 02446
Director(s): Lawrence E. Lifson, MD
Offered by: Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry
one live interview

clive spiegel
AUGUST 6, 7, 8, 2010: 5 SPOTS OPEN
one live interview, 2 live vignettes
$200 deposit, but don't know how much in total
14 dvd set is $500
shakespearean actor, does botox

osler institute
cme's for a lot of different disciplines
$990 for one public oral, one private oral, one public video, one private video
can have extra didactic day
need to stay at their hotel
various locations
no specific time

breeze the boards - dysfunctional link

online review:
maybe 1) Harvard-$1,000 for 2 days.
You get 1 interview for the money. No vignettes.
No decency to give you a repeat course if you fail.

maybe 2) Beat the Boards
1 interview and 1 set of vignettes. For $2,390!
Worse than Harvard-they don't even have any difficult patients. They bring some actor-type [not true, real patients] patients. It will be your luck if you have an easy patient like that during your exam.
The only good thing about them is that they give you a free course if you fail.

x 3) "Ultimate" by Dr. Spiegel. Two and a half days for $ 2,100, which includes 1 interview and 2 sets of vignettes.
Outrageous!
In Dr. Spiegel's group, out of 5 candidates only 1 passed!
What is going on there?
No decency to give you a repeat course if you fail.

x 4) Osler Institute.
Live patients are for additional fee. Othewise, you will get 4 vignettes for $1,000, and will observe your peers for the rest of the time.

/lucky! -
The Psychiatry Part II (oral) examination will be eliminated. The Psychiatry certification process will
consist of a single computerized examination (Psychiatry Certification Examination); first administration
in 2011.

board exam history

The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc. (ABPN) is a nonprofit corporation that was founded in 1934 following conferences of committees appointed by the American Psychiatric Association, the American Neurological Association, and the then Section on Nervous and Mental Diseases of the American Medical Association.
The ABPN is one of 24 member boards of the ABMS.

The ABPN Board of Directors consists of sixteen voting members.

The nominating organizations for psychiatry are the the American College of Psychiatrists, American Psychiatric Association, and the American Medical Association; for neurology, they are the American Neurological Association and the American Academy of Neurology.
Each of these organizations proposes nominees to serve on the Board, but the Board itself selects its members.

board studying

The studying commences...
Or more studying I guess as PRITE sort of counts. As well as reading Kaufman bits.

-get familiar with testing format
-take 2-3 practice examinations with the same time constraints as the actual exam
200 questions in morning
lunch
200 questions in afternoon
[ ] how much break time?
[ ] blocks of questions (like PRITE)?
[ ] computer formatting
[ ] where is the test administered? when do we schedule the exact day?

-study w/i last 5 years textbooks and review articles

-study over at least 3 months with smaller material

-make a study plan
a day off: Sat
3 months would be from Mar 15 to the earliest possible exam date of Jun 15
Stern's Update and Board prep with 564 pages/72 days = 7.83 pages/day --> 10 pages/day
Kaufman an hour a day.
questions
tests: mar 15, apr 12, may 17, may 31

-devise your own multiple choice questions at varying levels of complexity