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Prepare for the Written and Oral Psychiatry Board Exams or the Clinical Skills Assessment; Recordings are current for 2010. Click Here to View All Recordings

New Child Psychiatry Recording

I have completed a recording of questions and answers for child psychiatry. The format is the same as prior question/answer recordings; questions that are found on the written board exam and on PRITE exams read slowly, followed by multiple-choice answers. After a pause for the listenter to answer, the answer is provided. As with all [...]

Psychiatry Clinical Skills Assessment (CSA)

Six months ago I wrote about the change from oral board examinations in Psychiatry to a series of clinical skills assessments to be done by members of the resident’s training program. I had some concerns at that time about the change; I tend to do well on oral examinations and believe that with a couple [...]

The Future of Psychiatry Board Certification

Psychiatry Oral Boards will soon be a thing of the past. This development will no doubt cause considerable consternation for those who make a living by providing week-long practice sessions, but will be welcome news to psychiatry residents who suffer from performance anxiety! I have mixed feelings about the news myself. I confess to the [...]

New Recordings, New Specials

I have added new recordings for Psychiatry Board Preparation; I just added a ‘questions and answers in neurology’ recording. As always, the recordings are designed for efficiency; I take topics that have appeared on written Psychiatry Board Exams and ask the questions, pause, and then provide the answer. The goal is not so much to [...]

New Recording Series: Questions and Answers in Psychiatry

I have finally put together the new recordings; As I have mentioned in the past I am trying to think of the things that I would have found useful to study for the boards. I was going to go through the mood disorders next, but realized that trying to cover all of the disorders with [...]

Psychiatry Part II: Horses, not Zebras!

Like most Board Certification examinations, the proving ground for psychiatry covers two areas. Part I makes sure that the candidate has the ‘facts’– all of the things that are picked up during residency didactics and personal reading, including the different types of aphasia (ick), the metabolic derangements that affect brain development (ugh), or the specific [...]

Psychiatry and Psychology Board Preparation

While preparing for my Oral Examination earlier this year I found a way to prepare that was so useful that it may have made the difference for me. I waited longer than I should have to prepare, and suddenly found myself with less time than I had planned for. These recordings saved time, using time [...]

What Do You Need?

I will be preparing some new audio recordings as we get closer to the Oral Board season. I have described why my tapes are helpful– for the Part II exam I am convinced that most senior residents know the material that they need already; the problem is getting it out of their heads in a [...]

‘Perform’ for Part Two Psychiatry Boards

Board Certification in a medical specialty is in essence the ‘stamp of approval’ of a doctor’s competence to practice medicine. As you probably know, in most states a doctor can practice medicine without completing a full residency, but such work is limited to urgent care centers or other clinics where there is no need to [...]