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 - Read How
We have developed a new way for you to prepare for the psychiatry oral boards that is so complete, so easy to follow, and presented with such step-by-step detail, that it makes all other approaches - including our previous courses - obsolete! It's called the "Performance Training System" Beat The Boards! Course.
Every skill that is required on the Part 2 exam is addressed in the Beat The Boards! Course. This includes the performance skills needed for the live patient interview, the case presentation to examiners, the written vignette and the video vignette.
You're job is simply to:
1) learn the steps as they are laid out for you and then
2) practice them at the live course until you feel confident you can repeat them at the exam. When we say we've done as much of the work as possible for you, we’re not kidding.
Please take a moment to read about our breakthrough course - with its “All the Way to Pass” Guarantee. Here are the details of this 4-part course. All Inclusive Part 2 Exam – Beat The Boards! Program
Part 1: “The Fast Track” Home Study Course
11 Audio CDs: Learn by listening to our 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.
4 DVDs: Observe four different Live Patient Interview Mock Exams. On each, a candidate interviews a real patient, presents to an examiner, and receives detailed feedback.
3 DVDs: Observe three different Vignette Mock Exams. On each, a candidate is examined on three written vignettes and one video vignette. Learn what it takes to succeed on this new oral board exam format.
4 DVDs: Observe four Model Oral Board Interviews with Presentations. We conduct four board style interviews and then present each case in detail. We then critique the performance.
7 Manuals: Review this proprietary written reference material on exam techniques. Read over 300 pages of 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.)
Shipped This Week: When you call us and order your Beat The Boards! Course, we will ship the “Fast Track” Home Study Course to you this week. Turn your worries into directed study NOW. Do you have a good reason to wait?
Part 2: The “Boot Camp” Day
Join us for this highly interactive skill-building day practicing the most challenging exam skills under my 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 my mapping system so that you takes 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 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 our 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 our Hypnotic Performance Optimization Exercises to minimize your anxiety and perform to your highest ability.
Part 3: The Three Mock Exam Days
MOCK EXAM TRAINING DAYS: Immediately following the Boot Camp Day, you will stay and participate in 3 additional days of realistic mock-exam training under our expert faculty’s guidance. Gain exposure to an average of 36 written vignettes, 12 board-style video clips, and 12 different patient interviews. Every vignette and patient is different.
PATIENT INTERVIEW MOCK-EXAM: You receive one 75-minute patient interview mock exam. Oral and written feedback is provided.
VIGNETTE MOCK-EXAM: You receive one 75-minute vignette exam in, of course, the new ABPN Format.
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This is a great, great, great program. The examiners are very good, and they give us very good feedback. Excellent and very constructive. It has improved my confidence, and now I feel more comfortable going for that exam…I have already recommended it to a lot of my friends. I tend to have a high level of performance anxiety and actually doing a mock exam in front of a group of people with an examiner who gives you feedback afterwards has been invaluable…I would recommend it highly to a colleague. One of the major reasons I decided to take this class is not for lack of knowledge, but a question of how to organize the knowledge in the best possible way to keep it in consideration specifically for the board exam… how to do that in the most efficient way. I came here thinking, ‘I don’t know if I’m going to have any chance of passing this test,’ and now I feel 100% confident. From the moment I contacted American Physician Institute they’ve been very helpful with the guidance. They are always looking for 100% satisfaction. Practicing in the exam helped me to prepare much better. Helps enormously to not repeat the same mistakes in real exam. I am more focused. Very useful. Very realistic. Nice diversity of styles. Increased my confidence. Learned a lot. Very supportive. Excellent. Informative. Challenging. Humbling. Lets me know my weak points and makes me aware of my weaknesses. Loved it! Examiners were awesome. Told me what my strengths and weaknesses are. Taught me a lot. Very good. Concise and bulleted down all the information from CD’s. Feedback helps a lot and highlights weaknesses. Simulates real exam. Helpful. Very good. Refreshes your learning. Easily understandable. I will recommend this to other colleagues. Helped me a lot. Intensive and very helpful. Helped me to prepare for all different kinds of cases. The examiners were really wonderful in pointing out weak points, strengths and also weakness. In that sense, I think this course is really, really helpful. I will definitely recommend it. This course has raised my confidence, no doubt… I give full credit to this course. I would say I may have been maybe 10% prepared, but for now I feel more than 80% confident that I will make it. If ever I get any chance, there’s no question that I’d ever not refer anybody here. I think probably this is the best place where people can come in and get knowledge and get ready for passing the boards. It’s a great experience, and I have told other colleagues too, that Hey guys, this is the best course for Part 2 exam. If you are not going there, you’re missing a lot Jack and Brian, Just want to say thank you for the great course in KC. Due to multiple year long plus deployments to Iraq I was delayed in getting to my Part 2 and your course had me well prepared to handle any of the curveballs that came with the exam, and oh they did. Thank you very much and I have passed my recommendation on to several of my fellow military psychiatrists. I believe this is a great course, as it helps to desensitize and reduce anxiety and improve knowledge, as well as technique to improve your performance in the exam. It’s a nice experience to be with people who share the same concerns about going through an oral exam and learn together. This course should be a mandatory part of training for every psychiatrist. I believe that it has not only made me a better interviewer and presenter, it has improved my abilities to see the big picture when it comes to a patient’s mental illness. I now am more complete in diagnosing, formulating, and providing treatment recommendations. I feel more confident going into the exam after this course, as I believe I’m better equipped to deal with difficult situations, and various examiner styles. The course has helped me to think broadly and include all the possibilities. It has helped me to follow cues, listen, organize and formulate in a timely manner. One of the best courses to prepare for psychiatry oral board part 2. This course and it’s instructors were very helpful in pointing out areas in need of improvement in preparation for the Oral Board Exam. The course was simply the best imaginable. How I wish I could have learnt these skills when I was a resident. I firmly believe I’ve learnt not only to prepare for the exam but to be a better doctor and psychiatrist. Keep it up. Very thorough and detailed. Examinees were open and provided good input about the positives and negatives of interviews. Overall, very good learning experience before the exams. This course diminished my anxiety by laying out an organized approach to the exam, and steps for preparing for the exam which were individualized. There was a good balance between didactic e, live patient ,interactive exercises and feedback given. I did pass my “live patient interview” thanks to the Beat The Boards course. Dr. Krasuski is an excellent teacher! Dr. Krasuski, I want to thank you for helping foreign graduates. Without you, I don’t know who we will get help from. Thank you for your help. JACK!!!! You and support team are great!!!! Your presentation explains and breaks down every step in preparing for an exam. I would recommend this course to anybody!!! |
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