June 11: Test coming
Briefly: Started taking the practice tests for the Board recert. According to the scores I'm getting there I should not be allowed to be treating patients. It's SO much worse than I remember: gynecology, pediatrics, OB, ortho (which I've always sucked at), rheumatology, dermatology, opthamology, endocrinology, vitamin deficiencies, genetic disorders, ENT, pulmonology, developmental milestones in kids, hematology, oncology, penis problems, neurology, psychology, every bacteria and virus that can get into your brain, reproductive organs, lungs, skin or gut, and not nearly enough cardiology--not one ECG--not one! Every time I finish one of the practice tests I feel so stupid. In all fairness, the questions are perfectly dreadful!
Rescheduled the sleep study so I could try to absorb more today.
Have logged in over 27 hours on-line (more than a whole day!) doing the practice tests, which then have a study section where you go over everything. It's one thing to know stuff, it's another for it to be put in a question. And they pick the stupidest, ridiculous, obtuse stuff in there. Honestly: do I really need to know that African honeybees respond to the honeybee alarm pheromone? On seeing that as one of the answers I thought it was a joke. And do you know that gonorrhea is now fluroquinolone resistant in California & Hawaii only? Someone is totally obsessed with Hirschsprung's disease, which is seen only in about 1 in 5,000 (numbers vary from 2,000 to 7,000) births, so not exactly everyday, even in delivery. Why do I need to know about Monckeberg's, which is an incidental finding at best and usually found on autopsy with no clinical relevance?
So yes, I'm freaking out! Test in less than two days. Entire ability to continue to work is based on this.
Work tomorrow, yoga tomorrow night, full night's sleep (I learned a long time ago to never sacrifice sleep before a big test), and then at the testing center at 11:00 am, which is a very reasonable time.
Just let me whimper. And just a little bit of sympathy would be nice! Laurie
Rescheduled the sleep study so I could try to absorb more today.
Have logged in over 27 hours on-line (more than a whole day!) doing the practice tests, which then have a study section where you go over everything. It's one thing to know stuff, it's another for it to be put in a question. And they pick the stupidest, ridiculous, obtuse stuff in there. Honestly: do I really need to know that African honeybees respond to the honeybee alarm pheromone? On seeing that as one of the answers I thought it was a joke. And do you know that gonorrhea is now fluroquinolone resistant in California & Hawaii only? Someone is totally obsessed with Hirschsprung's disease, which is seen only in about 1 in 5,000 (numbers vary from 2,000 to 7,000) births, so not exactly everyday, even in delivery. Why do I need to know about Monckeberg's, which is an incidental finding at best and usually found on autopsy with no clinical relevance?
So yes, I'm freaking out! Test in less than two days. Entire ability to continue to work is based on this.
Work tomorrow, yoga tomorrow night, full night's sleep (I learned a long time ago to never sacrifice sleep before a big test), and then at the testing center at 11:00 am, which is a very reasonable time.
Just let me whimper. And just a little bit of sympathy would be nice! Laurie
posted by Laurie @ 9:40 PM
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