Inservice exam

[Surgeon]

What is the best way to prepare for this one? Some people get 99th percentile. How do they do it, I am ashamed to ask.

[Val]

Are you a surgeon? If you are in medicine, I would recommend MKSAP book series (Medical knowledge Self-Assessment Program, 12 books). The latest edition is coming out. The first 6 books are available, the other 6 will come in May. Usually the program buys these books for the third-years to ensure they pass the board. Ask any third-year to help you with the books. You also can buy them but better become a member of ASIM-ASP to get a discount. These books are published by the same organization that holds both in-service and board exams. Be aware that the books are volumous and take a lot of time to get through.

[VI]

What is the best way to prepare for this one? Some people get 99th percentile. How do they do it, I am ashamed to ask.

Too good to be true.

[Yuri]

Val,
are you the guy who lived in Ottawa, finishing his anesth.residency in PA(UofPenn?) and having a famous USMLE site?

[Val]

Val,
are you the guy who lived in Ottawa, finishing his anesth.residency in PA(UofPenn?) and having a famous USMLE site?

nope

[Surgeon]

Val,

I am in surgical residency and unfortunately your texts will not help me much.

[Marusya]

I am starting my surgical prelim (going into anesthesia after this). I don't really care much about surgery and the results of my surgical inservice exam.
How bad could it be if I got very low score on it?

[RAMA]

Inservice exam is not about the specialty. It is about your desire to learn. I would say, scoring low will not surprise or dissappoint anyone, scoring high will get you some points.

[Marusya]

How can is be "not about the specialty" if it has surgical questions (unlike anesthesia programs have anesthesiological ones)? Or inservice exams are the same for any residencies?

[Boris]

Yes, the questions are surgical, but they are more about basic science, less clinical.

[Surgeon]

High scores will impress anyone, even more so, if you are not from the same specialty.

[Marusya]

Asked my program about it today. They said I don't even have to take this exam because I am not going into surgery. So, there was no reason to worry, silly me. :roll:

[Gala]

What is the best way to prepare for this one? Some people get 99th percentile. How do they do it, I am ashamed to ask.

Too good to be true.

У меня 99% 3 года подряд :oops:
Резидентура ценит скор, т.к. ей самои достается если они ниже 50% percentile.
Я читала екзамены прошлих лет и MKSAP.

[Gala]

However, MKSAP it is not very useful for surgery :) .

[Diana]

У меня 99% 3 года подряд :oops:
Резидентура ценит скор, т.к. ей самои достается если они ниже 50% percentile.
Я читала екзамены прошлих лет и MKSAP.

А почему 99% должно быть :oops: ??? Надо :D :D :P :!:

[Gala]

:D :D :!: