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!
And if you sign up for either 2010 live course before August 31, we’ll send you the Home Study Course FREE, so you can start mastering exam material right away!
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.
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Wonderful. Very good. I would definitely recommend to a colleague.
Concise. Definitely would recommend. Wonderful! Examiners were good. Helped me greatly. Built up my confidence. This course was recommended by a colleague and I will keep recommending it. I think it’s been really helpful. It helped me sort of identify some of the areas that I can prepare for better for the oral exam. I think this course is excellent. I’ve taken this course before, for my adult boards. That was last year and I passed it the first time. That was really awesome! Before the exam, I wasn’t really prepared and I was very anxious, like most of the candidates. But by spending some time here, I think I’m pretty comfortable and confident. It’s clarified a lot of the pitfalls that people have problems with. A course like this really helps synthesize data very concisely. It helps you organize the kinds of information and preparations that you’ll need. I was very excited coming here for the preparation. I think it turned out to be good. I went through a lot of good experiences here and I’m very positive. This time I feel I’m better prepared than before. I came in not knowing what to expect for the exam, but this course has really helped me. Well put together. Worthwhile information. Helped me focus on what I need to know for the exam. I liked it! I learned a lot. I recommend this course. This course was particularly helpful in preparing for the video-vignette portion, which is very difficult to do at home on your own. It also focused on problems and age groups not seen as often in clinic.
Great course! I would do it again. It helped me decrease my anxiety about the exams.
Fantastic – excellent review of key topics & strategies for the child & adolescent psychiatry oral board exams; the course provides enough exposure to reduce the stress and anxiety of the boards.
This is the best e prep course there is. The home study materials are complete, exhaustive, and relevant. The four day course (with mock exams for three days and a lightning review of materials for one day) is the most exhausting four days you will ever spend so usefully – the staff is extraordinarily kind, patient, helpful and knowledgeable. The model exam instructors are universally excellent, accessible and extremely helpful – and Dr. Jack is the magician behind it all. He sees all, does all, and knows all. Thank you (whatever happens!).
The course is very helpful and a great practice tool if you do not have anybody to practice with. The vignettes are extremely helpful!
In addition to providing excellent board preparation, this course provided the most valuable CME activity I have ever participated in. It provides a concise and easily understandable review of practically all the topics I need to be familiar with on a daily basisi in my practice. The course helped me learn to focus quickly on relevant information and obtain not only the big picture but also the important details unique to the patient. The live practice is invaluable, and faculty feedback is excellent!
This course is very helpful in refreshing one’s knowledge base. But this course refreshes it in a way that you can assess your short-comings and practice to improve them. It certainly made me realize my blind spots and provided me an opportunity to create better patterns of interviewing, organizing, presenting and verbalizing my knowledge.
Thanks Jack! This program made me ready to feel confident and ace the exams. Thanks again!
Beat The Boards has been greatly appreciated by me. I passed my adult boards – one attempt – and Beat The Boards greatly helped. I’m hoping you’ll continue the program. This is highly recommended not only to pass the exam but also as daily practice in our everyday practice.
The course was a well organized and well orchestrated, with good support staff. The vignettes covered a wide range of topics which also provided a comprehensive review of many of the less common disorders that can appear on the exam.
Beat The Boards is the best way to prepare for the Adult Part II and CAP Part II oral exams. The practice is essential and simulates the real exam. I also like the interaction with colleagues – we practice together and support each other during this stressful time.
I have used this course for Adult written, Adult oral and Child written with success. It is a highly recommended review course. It helps you think like the test which is beneficial for those who may be poor test takers. I hope it holds true for my child orals. Thanks!
The course allowed one to practice organization, which is crucial to passing the exam.
An excellent course. Your investment in learning the material, practicing the vignettes and live interviews makes this course a very positive long-term investment, that I think would enrich your career and work satisfaction for years after you “Beat The Boards.”
It is a great opportunity being a part of this Institute. I have seen firsthand that the faculty is trying its best to help doctors become the authority in their chosen branch of medicine.
I had no idea about how to present the video for the oral exam. Not only have I learnt how to do a thorough MSE of a child on a 10 minute video, but this will be valuable to me in my clinical practice as well. I am confident about my interviewing technique, case formulation, diagnostic abilities and assessments. I personally would not go to the boards without attending this course. Jack Krasuski is committed to helping candidates pass these exams. His honesty and integrity are sincerely appreciated. |
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