CAP Oral Exam Preparation Course (Part 2)

With Our Performance Training System, Your Oral Board Preparation
Is So Step-by-Step It's Actually Easier to Do a Good Job than a Bad One


This comprehensive review course addresses every aspect of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Oral Board Exam. All you have to do is follow the steps, including studying the written materials, participating in the workshop, and practicing with the mock oral exams, and you can be confident of your success. And to prove we mean what we say, this course comes with the “All The Way To Pass” Guarantee – If you take the course and don’t pass, you can repeat the course free until you do!

If your Oral Board Exam is coming up in 2010 or later, then I commend you for being here. It means you are a forward-looking psychiatrist who doesn’t wait until the last minute to prepare for challenging exams, including this one. After all, if you begin your preparations now, your chances of success will be greatly improved – and I don’t say that lightly.

The good news is that we have an extremely effective Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Oral Board Prep Home Study Course that can be mailed to you today! Yes, you can begin mastering the exam material without a day’s delay.

  Fast-Track Home Study Course:

  • 8 AUDIO CD'S:
    • Learn by listening to my step-by-step instructions on exactly what to do on the patient interview, on the presentation to the examiners, and on the written and video vignettes. Listen in your car as many times as you wish to these CD's without taking any additional time out of your day.
     
  • 10 VIDEO DVD'S:
    • View these DVDs on your TV. Eight of the DVDs demonstrate real CAP Oral Board candidates participating in realistic mock exams just weeks prior to their exams (four adolescent patient mock exams and four vignette mock-exams). Two additional DVDs demonstrate a board-certified Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist interviewing real teen patients to provide you a model of the exam interview style.

  • 5 WRITTEN MANUALS:
    • Review this proprietary written reference material on exam techniques. Read the step-by-step instructions covering every conceivable aspect of the exam performance. (These are the transcripts of the audio CD's with additional study material included.)

Live Course Day 1: The “Boot Camp” Day

Join us for this highly interactive skill-building day practicing the most challenging exam skills under Dr. Krasuski's direct supervision. This is just a sample of all the skills you master during this high-intensity day.

THERAPEUTIC ENGAGEMENT SKILLS: You learn how to engage patients therapeutically, even defiant, disorganized, or mute ones. If you do not master this skill, nothing else matters. Examiners are extremely sensitive to your approach to the "Physician-Patient Relationship,” the first scoring category.

PSYCHOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING SKILLS: You learn both to understand myriad aspects of the patient's psychological function, a favorite area of examiner questions, as well as justify the most sensible psychotherapy for the patient.

INTERVIEW MAPPING SKILLS: You learn to maintain a disciplined, well-paced 30-minute interview that is mapped out according to Dr. Krasuski's mapping system so that you take notes that actually guide your interview and presentation, that permit you to keep on time, and that make missing important informational areas nearly impossible.

PRESENTATION SYSTEM SKILLS: You learn how to organize your case presentation, formulation (that you need to know in to two different formats), the differential diagnosis, and the management plan according to rule-based systems that virtually guide you into the correct presentation approach. Using Dr. Krasuski's systems makes it actually more difficult to present incorrectly than it is to present in the most effective way.

VIDEO OBSERVATION & PRESENTATION SKILLS: You learn the most common mistakes to avoid in the video clip observation and learn the system that permits you to anticipate each of the examiner's questions - yes, they tend to follow a standard template.

VIGNETTE ANALYSIS & PRESENTATION SKILLS: You learn how to analyze the vignette at the time you are reading it so that you extract all the pertinent details. You also learn the little tricks the vignette writers use to trip-up the unsuspecting candidate. Then, as in the video clip, you learn how to anticipate the examiner questions.

HYPNOSIS: You may participate in Dr. Krasuski's Hypnotic Performance Optimization Exercises to minimize your anxiety and perform to your highest ability

   

Live Course Days 2-4: The Three Mock Exam Days

MOCK EXAM TRAINING DAYS: Immediately following the Boot Camp Day, you stay and participate in 3 additional days of realistic mock-exam training under our expert faculty's guidance. Gain exposure to a variety of adolescent patients as well as pre-school and school age video clips and written vignettes. Every vignette, video clip and patient is different. Note a new course improvement - We now have both the adolescent mock exams and the vignette mock-exams running all day every day. So if you are only interested in preparing for only one exam section, you will be actively learning all day long!

RECEIVE TWO MOCK-EXAMS OF YOUR CHOICE: You may take one adolescent patient interview mock-exam AND one vignette mock-exam OR you may wish to take two of each. It is your option. The adolescent patient interview mock exam is 75 minutes in length and the vignette mock-exam is 90 minutes in length. Oral and written feedback is provided during the included 15-minute feedback session.

Chicago, IL - Oct 14-17, 2010 - $1997.00

Austin, TX - Nov 15-18, 2010 - $1997.00 - EXAM CITY

2010 Child Part 2 Home Study - $895.00


CME : Earn up to 33.5 hours CME Category 1 Credit.
You need CME credit so why not obtain it by doing something useful to your career?


Receive an ALL THE WAY TO PASS GUARANTEE - Even If You Pass Half Your Exam! REPEAT ENTIRE COURSE EVEN IF YOU PASS HALF THE EXAM: Even if you pass one of the exam sections of the Child & Adolescent Oral Boards but not the other, you may repeat the ENTIRE course for no additional cost. For example, if you pass the vignette section but not the adolescent interview section, you still receive TWO mock exams of the type you need upon your return to your guaranteed course. REPEAT UNTIL YOU PASS: You are eligible to return for a complete course each time you take and do not pass your CAP Part 2 Exam - all the way until you do pass!

FAQ's for Beat The Boards! CAP Part II Exam Preparation Course

  • Q: Is it likely that my employer will cover my tuition?
  • A: You may be surprised at how many group, hospital-owned and HMO practices – as well as other institutions – will pay for or reimburse you for Category 1 educational activities. Remember that we offer such CME credit. I think it is really worth asking your medical director or administrator. In addition, I know of other employers who will reimburse you for board exam training. Remember that it is in your employer's interest to have you board certified.
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  • Q: Are there any additional discounts that apply?
  • A: Everyone who has taken a previous course with us of any kind is eligible for the Ambassador Program. When a client refers a new client to us, it saves us on average $104 in advertising costs. So we pass half those savings on to the referring doctor (The Ambassador) and half to the colleague who is referred.
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  • Q: Why do you offer such a generous guarantee?
  • A: That's just the way we like to do business. It keeps us honest. We did not feel it right that if you pass only half of your exam that we provide you only half the guarantee. You receive two mock-exams during your guaranteed course no matter what.
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  • Q: When I attend the course, do I have to stay at the course hotel?
  • A: No, you do not. You can stay wherever you wish.

    Let me give you two arguments for staying with us at the course hotel. First, it's a nice hotel and it's not that expensive. You'll get info when you register for your course. And second and more importantly, course participants practice together in the mornings and evenings. You probably want to be where the action is.

    For instance, you can team up with a colleague and mock-exam each other. One colleague plays the role of candidate and the other the role of examiner. The examiner examines you on, for example, three written vignettes. You then critique your performance and then when you're done you switch roles. You do get written copies of every vignette presented at the course to make this type of practice easy.


Chicago, IL - Oct 14-17, 2010 - $1997.00

Austin, TX - Nov 15-18, 2010 - $1997.00 - EXAM CITY

2010 Child Part 2 Home Study - $895.00


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