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What Is the Diagnosis & Treatment for This Patient’s Cough?
Welcome to the next episode of The Reveal where we take you inside the mind of a test-taker to deconstruct and connect the dots of a board-style question so you can become a better student, transform how you learn, and excel not only on high-stakes exams, but also in your general medical knowledge. Let’s get read more…
How I Paid Down My Student Loan Debt
I have made almost every financial mistake that new physicians should avoid, including going into forbearance and deferment, buying the doctor house and car, not living on a budget, and not prioritizing paying down student loan debt. To be clear, I had significant debt—similar to that of the average graduating medical school student in the read more…
How to Avoid or Fix a Comma Splice
Commas, commas, commas. There are so many rules, so many opinions, and so many ways to use this tiny punctuation mark. I previously waded into comma usage with commas and conjunctions, and now I’ll swim further into the comma pool with comma splices. A “splice” is a joint or joining of two things. To me, read more…
What Does Shortness of Breath and Edema Indicate in This Patient?
Welcome to the next episode of The Reveal where we take you inside the mind of a test-taker to deconstruct and connect the dots of a board-style question so you can become a better student, transform how you learn, and excel not only on high-stakes exams, but also in your general medical knowledge. Let’s get read more…
Why We Love Our Customers: The Top Feedback Quotes of All Time
Last year, we wrote about how we have the best customers, and it’s still true. They not only stay calm during a stressful time in their lives, but they continue to send us some of the funniest, heartfelt, and most gracious messages. We can’t keep these notes to ourselves, so here are our favorite customer read more…
Test Your Knowledge of Classic ECG Findings
Welcome to the next episode of The Reveal where we take you inside the mind of a test-taker to deconstruct and connect the dots of a board-style question so you can become a better student, transform how you learn, and excel not only on high-stakes exams, but also in your general medical knowledge. Let’s get read more…
Learn How Not to Overthink a Board Exam Question
Welcome to the next episode of The Reveal where we take you inside the mind of a test-taker to deconstruct and connect the dots of a board-style question so you can become a better student, transform how you learn, and excel not only on high-stakes exams, but also in your general medical knowledge. Let’s get read more…
How to Increase Your Family Nurse Practitioner Certification Exam Score
We already know the pass rates for the AANP Family Nurse Practitioner and ANCC Family Nurse Practitioner Exam hovers around 80%. This article is going to show two very easy ways to help increase your Family Nurse Practitioner Certification Exam Score by 100 points.
While there is no magic pill or wand to significantly increase your exam score, these two techniques are the most useful, easy to implement and only requires a little of your time. This means anyone can take advantage of them. The first tactic is to use a system over a couple of months to identify what you don’t know. Sounds easy, right? The key is to go through a curriculum and identify what you don’t know – not what you are weak at – but what you don’t know. The second strategy is to take advantage of human error. Tests are written by humans, of course, and humans make errors. This article will show you 5 very easy techniques to narrow down an answer choice to either the correct answer or to a 50/50 probability – even without knowing anything about the topic. By combining these two strategies, you’ll be able to increase your Family Medicine certification score by 100 points – which could be the difference between passing or failing. Let’s get started.