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Study Strategies
The Rosh Review blog provides study and exam prep tips, podcasts, and more for physicians, NPs, PAs, residents, and students. Below you’ll find a list of the blog posts that highlight Study Strategies. Take a look and learn something new.
How to Increase Your Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Board Exam Score
This article covers two easy strategies to help increase your score and likelihood of passing the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Certification Exam. These two techniques are useful, easy to implement, and only require a little of your time. The first strategy is to identify what you don‘t know. read more…
How To Answer A USMLE/NBME Question
It’s common for students to feel overwhelmed or even panicked when put under the spotlight for a high-stakes, timed, multiple-choice test. Many questions can be tautological or filled with distractors, irrelevant information, and a slew of lab tests and diagnostics that obscure the case and the correct answer. However, having a systematic approach can demystify read more…
How to Use and Incorporate a Qbank While Studying for Shelf Exams & Step 2
The best way to learn medical content is to have real patient encounters that expose you to a real person with an emotional connection to the case, workup, and outcomes. This is why the clinical year of medical school exists, so you can begin to encounter patients and hopefully continue this learning throughout residency. However, medical read more…
How to Prepare for the CREOG
Even though it might feel like you just took your CREOG exam, before you know it you’ll have to start thinking about studying again. In the months after I took my first CREOG during the COVID-19 pandemic, I had a lot of free time to reflect on best studying practices (thanks to stay-at-home orders and read more…
The First Med-Peds Qbank to Help You Pass Your Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Board Exams
To prepare for your boards as a Med-Peds resident, you may feel like you have to recreate the wheel to craft your study plan. As if one board exam isn’t enough, you face the challenge of finding two great study resources to ace your exams. But the more time you spend searching for multiple board read more…
Top 16 Questions About Emergency Medicine Qbanks & Exams
Researching the best emergency medicine board review methods and exam details can be overwhelming. Rather than doing the time-intensive search yourself, you’ll find the answers to common questions here. This post will help clarify what types of board review options exist, which one(s) are right for you, and what you need to know to prepare read more…
How to Study for the Shelf Exams & Step 2…And Impress Residencies
Studying for the shelf exams and Step 2 can be an intimidating endeavor! Your goal this year is to get ready for residency and match with your dream program, but what do programs care most about? Rotation grades (for which the shelf plays a major role), your Step 1 performance (which is now pass/fail as read more…
Top 12 Questions About AGACNP Qbanks & Certification Exams
Researching AGACNP certification exam details and the best exam review methods can be overwhelming—especially when you’re balancing patient care, your personal life, and now preparing for your NP certification. Rather than doing the time-intensive search yourself, you’ll find the answers to common questions here. This post will help clarify what types of exam review options read more…
The PA School Study Tips That Helped Me Tackle Didactic Year
A common sentiment you’ll hear during didactic and clinical years is that learning in PA school is like trying to drink water from a fire hydrant. The volume of information you receive from 8–9 hours of lecture per day can feel overwhelming, and excelling at assessments takes countless study strategies and perseverance. Not every study read more…
How to Increase Your Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN) 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.
How Will the ABEM Exam Blueprint Updates Impact Your Certification Exam?
In July 2019, ABEM modified their exam blueprint to reflect the revised EM Model. These changes are going into effect for fall 2020 exams. How does this affect you? The Rosh Review EM Qbank reflects these changes, so you can prepare with confidence. Which categories INCREASED on the ABEM exam blueprint? Signs, symptoms, & presentations: read more…
Everything to Know About the ABOG 2020 Certifying Exam Changes
Instead of the 2020 ABOG oral boards being administered in January and February 2021, ABOG is transitioning to a computer-based exam offered on February 2 and May 11, 2021. This is a temporary change to prioritize safety and minimize health risks for candidates, examiners, and staff due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Wondering how to prepare read more…
How to Increase Your CPNP-PC Exam Score
We already know pass rates for the ABP exam hover around 85% for all test-takers. This article is going to show two very easy ways to help increase your Pediatrics Certification score by 50 points. While there is no magic pill or wand to achieve this, 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 Pediatrics certification score by 50 points – which could be the difference between passing or failing. Let’s get started.
Top 12 Questions about PMHNP Qbanks & the Certification Exam
Researching PMHNP certification exam details and the best exam review methods can be overwhelming—especially when you’re balancing patient care, your personal life, and now preparing for your NP certification. Rather than doing the time-intensive search yourself, you’ll find the answers to common questions here. This post will help clarify what types of exam review options read more…
How to Increase Your PMHNP Certification Exam Score
This article covers two easy strategies to help increase your ANCC Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) Certification Exam score. These two techniques are useful, easy to implement, and only require a little of your time. The first strategy is to identify what you don‘t know. Sounds easy, right? The key is to go through a read more…
Top 12 Questions About AGNP & AGPCNP Qbanks & Certification Exams
Researching AGNP and AGPCNP certification exam details and the best exam review methods can be overwhelming—especially when you’re balancing patient care, your personal life, and now preparing for your NP certification. Rather than doing the time-intensive search yourself, you’ll find the answers to common questions here. This post will help clarify what types of exam read more…
How to Increase Your AGNP or AGPCNP 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.
Top 16 Questions About Qbanks for PA Students, the PANCE, & Rotation Exams
Researching the best PA exam review methods and details can be overwhelming. Rather than doing the time-intensive searching yourself, you’ll find the answers to common questions here. This post will help clarify what types of study options exist, which one(s) are right for you, and what you need to know to prepare for your didactic read more…
Top 11 Questions About Family Nurse Practitioner Qbanks & Certification Exams
Researching FNP certification exam details and the best exam review methods can be overwhelming—especially when you’re balancing patient care, your personal life, and now preparing for your NP certification. Rather than doing the time-intensive search yourself, you’ll find the answers to common questions here. This post will help clarify what types of exam review options read more…
Top 9 Questions About OB/GYN Qbanks and Exam Prep
Researching the best OB/GYN exam study tips and board review methods can be overwhelming. Rather than doing the time-intensive search yourself, you’ll find the answers to common questions here. This post will help clarify what types of study options exist, which one(s) are right for you, and what you need to know to prepare for read more…