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EXACT Board Exam Prep Accelerator Delivers Custom Board Success — Here’s How

March 28, 2025 by Jack Krasuski MD Leave a Comment Categories: All Posts, How to Prepare For Your Board Exam Tags: board exam prep, board exam prep tips, board prep, psychiatry board prep

EXACT is a proprietary algorithm that customizes a study program for each learner. The learner completes a board-reflective practice test and EXACT converts the results into a personalized board prep review schedule and study plan so learners pass on their first try At American Physician Institute (API), a leading medical education and certification solutions provider, we offer EXACT — a FREE game-changing board prep program for medical professionals. API’s proprietary EXACT algorithm powers the program, which provides individuals with personalized… Click to Read More

ABPN® Exam: What’s in Scope and Out of Scope on the Psychiatry Board Exams?

August 30, 2024 by Jack Krasuski MD Leave a Comment Categories: All Posts Tags: ABPN board exam, ABPN exam, abpn exam guidelines, board exam prep, Dr Jack Krasuski, psychiatry board exam, psychiatry board exam prep, psychiatry board tips, Psychiatry boards

As part of our ongoing quality assurance, I’ve been reviewing and addressing comments left by learners regarding specific multiple-choice questions that make up our ABPN® exam psychiatry 2300+ question QBank. (Our QBank allows each learner to comment on any and all QBank questions.) One of the most common comments I’m encountering is one that questions whether the topic of the QBank question is in the scope of the exam, meaning whether it is a learning point that is tested on… Click to Read More

Why Taking a Board Review Course at the Last Minute is a Good Idea

September 6, 2023 by Jack Krasuski MD Leave a Comment Categories: All Posts, How to Prepare For Your Board Exam Tags: board exam, board exam prep, board test prep

I know I’m biased in favor of board review courses to help you prepare for board certification exams. After all, I started the Beat The Boards! courses and continue to present many lectures at several of them. Despite this, I think I can convince you of the wisdom of getting a board prep course, even if it’s last minute. Reason # 1: There Is No Downside to Getting a Board Review Course At least when it comes to the Beat… Click to Read More

How Stress Can Ruin Your Board Scores

March 4, 2019 by Robert Sheeler, MD Leave a Comment Categories: All Posts, How to Prepare For Your Board Exam Tags: board exam prep, board exam prep tips, board exam stress, board scores, test taking stress

Stress can you ruin your board scores. It sounds like a cliché but actually it is true! Stress leads to fight, flight, or freeze scenarios. When our autonomic nervous systems are out of balance, we can go into overdrive or we can freeze up completely depending upon whether the adrenergic nervous system or the parasympathetic nervous system is over-activated. Neither one of these is helpful for a good outcome in your test scores. Acute stress and chronic stress can both… Click to Read More

Treatment Interventions on Board Exams

July 23, 2018 by Jack Krasuski MD Leave a Comment Categories: All Posts, Crack the Exam Question Code Tags: beat the boards, board exam prep, how to figure out a treatment intervention, jack krasuski, psychiatry board exam, treatment interventions, treatment interventions board exams

It’s not a secret that board exams test your knowledge of the details of the myriad treatment interventions on board exams used in treating patients. In addition to knowing the circumstances of when to choose a particular intervention over another (discussed in other posts), you are expected to know the details of each specific treatment intervention. Thus, the question that arises for the exam taker is “just how much detail about treatment interventions do I need to know?” Each field… Click to Read More