As promised, here is another very detailed exam account. It describes the live patient interview blow-by-blow. It truly conveys the candidate’s thought processes and emotional experience of the exam. I think it is must reading especially for candidates who have yet to take the exam the first time. I am grateful to the writer for her important contribution.

Before we begin, let me say … If you’re ready to begin your studies now, call Ramona and register. She will ship the home study part of the course to you today. Her number is 877-225-8384.

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Since so many of our Beat The Boards! Course Participants just took their Part 2 Exam in Portland, I want to share with you their exam experiences. I start off with one psychiatrist’s experience today and add another post Friday. I think you’ll find these write-ups extremely valuable reads.

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Here are four simple approaches to greatly and quickly improve your rapport with your patient during the psychiatric interview. When you’re done reading, please add a comment, sharing your own effective psychiatric interviewing approach. Thanks.

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Let me be frank with you. The spectrum of psychopathology that I observe the greatest assessment weaknesses in during the psychiatric interview is in the assessment of Substance Use Disorders. You should know by now that I am into making things so simple that you can NOT help but to do a good job. This is at the heart of my entire teaching philosophy. Read this and make up your own mind.

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Last week I wrote about the most common patient type (based on my experience) who denies being in psychiatric care – the patient with Schizophrenia. Today I discuss the three other patient types who makes such denials. Can you guess who they are?

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