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Meeting the DEA Mate Act Training Requirement for Medical Professionals

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What Is the 2023 DEA MATE ACT? The DEA MATE (Medication Access and Treatment Expansion) Act, enacted in June 2023 as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, is an attempt to address the opioid epidemic through addiction medication access and physician training. This legislation mandates continuing medical education for medical practitioners registered with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Notably, it imposes a one-time eight-hour training requirement focused on the treatment and management of patients with opioid or other substance use… READ MORE

Two Pathways to Addiction Medicine Board Certification

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Prepping for your Addiction Medicine Board Exam? Get a comprehensive Addiction Medicine Board Review Course from The Pass Machine to get your board prep on track. From now until 2025, the American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) offers two ways for physicians to become board-certified Addiction Medicine specialists – the “traditional certification pathway” and the “clinical practice pathway.” The ABPM recognizes physicians working in the field of addictions have diverse medical specialty training, and therefore, the medical specialty board offers… READ MORE

Should I Maintain My Board Certification for as Long as I Practice?

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My answer for myself is: Yes, I would always maintain my board certification for as long as I see patients. I would not practice with lapsed board certification. Here I present my reason – yes, I have only one reason to remain board certified. This medical-legal reason is relevant to and resonates with me. It may or may not be relevant or resonate with you, but I think it’s good for you to at least be aware of it as… READ MORE

Life after Residency or Fellowship: Choosing the Right Type of Medical Practice

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Every graduating resident or fellow must make the decision whether to join a private practice, open a solo practice, or be employed by a hospital or by a private equity practice. Although these represent four types of medical practice models in which the majority of physicians work, it comes down to whether you want to be your own boss or have a boss. This clearly oversimplifies the decision-making process. There are many factors to consider when making deciding what type… READ MORE

A Perfectionism That Will Kill Your Board Exam Performance

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This week we completed our 5-Day Psychiatry Board Prep Course in Chicagoland. (It was great to see and speak with so many colleagues there.)  At the course, I received several questions from our attendees about what turns out to be a single problem described in different ways – board exam performance. The problem is a manifestation of one type of perfectionism in exam performance. It arises as a feeling of a strong need to get complete and/or definitive information about… READ MORE

How to Get the Most from Group Study for Board Exams

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Preparing for board exams can be done alone or with a partner or study group. (From now on, I’ll write ‘group’ when referring to a group or single partner.) Studying in a group has several pros and cons, which I cover in this article. Depending on the learner, either the pros or the cons of group study can predominate. Thus, group study is not for everyone. For those for whom group study is a net positive, it can be the… READ MORE

The World’s Biggest USMLE Step 2 CK QBank Now Available

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Prepping for your USMLE Step 2 exam? Try 200 free USMLE Step 2 CK practice questions from The Pass Machine to help get your USMLE prep on track. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Our QBank team has been hard at work over the last several months developing, compiling, and vetting our new USMLE Step 2 CK QBank for medical students. It’s not just any old QBank, though – it’s the world’s largest medical education QBank for the USMLE Step 2 CK exam. It includes… READ MORE

Advice When Waiting for Your Medical Board Exam Results

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We’ve had tens of thousands of physicians take our board prep courses and this is what I learned about the weeks waiting for medical board exam results: there is a weak relationship between how you think you did on the exam and whether you passed. Hundreds of times, exam-takers have emailed me feeling terrible about how “horribly” they did, only to find out that they passed. It’s normal to leave an exam feeling uncertain or discouraged. This occurs because: Often… READ MORE

Treatments in Specific Patient Populations for Cardiology

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The majority of the questions on cardiology medical board exams are focused on treatment since the reason patients see a cardiologist is to obtain appropriate treatment. The aspects of treatment tested by the specialty board exams include: Details of particular treatment options Treatment interventions by disease variant and in specific patient populations Treatment algorithms This post aims to understand how to choose the correct treatment for a specific patient population or disease form. The writer of the cardiovascular disease board… READ MORE

The Hospitalist Lifestyle: A Cause for Early Burnout?

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As we move away from the traditional internist and continue to separate the inpatient realm from the outpatient, hospitalist scheduling remains controversial. Through my own job searches, I have seen many scheduling models. Seven on, seven off remains common, but many groups are moving away from this in favor of more lifestyle-friendly schedules. Working seven consecutive days can be exhausting and may lead to early burnout. It also leaves little time for family, exercise, or hobbies outside of work during… READ MORE

Treatments in Specific Pediatric Patient Populations

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Medical board exams include questions in several different areas. including treatments in specific pediatric patient populations. A large percentage of these questions are focused on treatment interventions as an appropriate treatment that a physician is expected to provide to the patients. Three main aspects of treatment are generally tested on the specialty board exams. These include: Features of specific treatment interventions Treatments provided to specific patient populations and to patients with specific disease variants Treatment algorithms The purpose of this… READ MORE

Treatment Algorithms on the Family Medicine Board Exams

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Family medicine board exams mainly test the clinical knowledge of the test-taker. Therefore, a number of questions in the American Board of Family Medicine exams are based on assessing your knowledge regarding various treatment interventions. Three significant aspects of treatment interventions may be tested: Treatment algorithms Treatment interventions in specific patient populations and in different variants of the disease Details of particular treatment interventions Treatment algorithms are the primary focus of this blog post. A rank ordering of treatment options,… READ MORE

VIDEO: Why the Knowledge Gap on the Board Exam?

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Below is a transcription of the video (it has been edited for clarity): Many physicians who do poorly on their boards feel frustrated by underperforming on their exam in relation to their medical knowledge and confused by not knowing how to fix this performance gap.  Here I explore the first of five contributors to medical board exam underperformance and provide solutions. Poor Focus on Board Exam Question Due to Anxiety One cause of poor board exam performance is a lack… READ MORE

How to Recognize “Zebras” on the American Board of Family Medicine Exam

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Prepping for your Family Medicine Board Exam? Get a comprehensive Family Medicine Board Review Course from The Pass Machine to get your board prep on track. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Family Medicine boards present multiple-choice questions that are fair and clinically relevant with pride. Simply meaning, they are not trying to trick you. Most of the case vignettes present a patient with a common form of the condition or disease, as these common forms are the ones assessed and treated by most… READ MORE

Treatment Interventions In Gastroenterology Board Exams

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Board exams assess your knowledge regarding the details of myriads of treatment interventions that are used to treat diverse medical conditions. You are expected to have a knowledge of the details of each of these specific treatment interventions, in addition to knowing the situations in which to give preference to one particular intervention over another. Therefore, it is important to know how much knowledge of the details regarding a particular treatment intervention you should have. There are certain treatment interventions… READ MORE

Treatment Algorithms on Oncology Board Exams

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Prepping for the Medical Oncology Board Exam? Get a comprehensive Medical Oncology Board Review Course from The Pass Machine to get your board prep on track. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ When preparing for medical oncology board exams, it is important to remember that they are primarily testing your clinical knowledge. Therefore, expect to find many questions that will assess your knowledge about treatment modalities and which interventions are the most appropriate for each case. You can be tested on the details regarding a… READ MORE

Family Medicine Board Review Questions: Identifying Treatments in Specific Populations

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Prepping for your Family Medicine Board Exam? Get a comprehensive Family Medicine Board Review Course from The Pass Machine to get your board prep on track. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ A large percentage of questions on the Family Medicine Board Exam are based on treatment interventions, as an appropriate treatment is what a patient seeks from a physician. Three major facets of treatment are tested on the Family Medicine certification exam: Treatment algorithms Treatments for specific variants of disease and patients belonging to… READ MORE

Recognizing Zebras In Gastroenterology Clinical Vignettes

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The board exams pride themselves on not presenting questions that may trick you. In other words, the questions are fair and clinically relevant. This means that the majority of the questions will be related to a common form of a medical disorder. After all, these are the conditions that most of the physicians spend their days assessing and treating. However, it is also important for the clinician to identify the rare disorder. Hence, the question is, how to differentiate whether… READ MORE

VIDEO: What to Do if You Fail Your Board Exam

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What Do You Do If You Fail Your Medical Board Exam?  Well, the first thing you should do if you fail your board exam is to take some time to come to terms with what has happened.  When you first open up that envelope and you see that you failed the exam, it will hit you like a ton of bricks. You don’t need to do anything. You do not need to start studying. Just take it easy, sleep… READ MORE

Levels of Board Exam Questions

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One way I’ve found categorizing board exam questions helpful is to view them in a hierarchy of three levels, each one building on the previous one and requiring a more use of one’s clinical judgment. My three levels are: Know It →  Recognize It →  Decide It Now let me explain, and I promise this will be practically helpful and, I believe, comforting even in preparing for your board exams. KNOW IT This lowest level of question relies almost exclusively… READ MORE

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