![]() ![]() A good place to start Is probably a phone call to see where I can get. I've been thinking about how best to bring this to the attention of ABP. Please let me know your thoughts! I'd love to change it or collaborate on this if people have ideas that can actually impact this field for the better.ĮDIT: Thanks to all of you, we've made it to 100 signatures. To be honest, I have no hope that we can change the process in time for my partner to be affected, and I wouldn't want to dangle that hope in front of her, but I'm so damn angry, sad, frustrated that I need the ABP to at least speak to improving this process for physicians. I'm so so mad at the ABP, and I hope no offense is taken by this, but I'm mad at the entire physician training and certification process, from medical school to steps to residency match, to boards, the hoops never end, and all these boards don't seem to actually care how they affect physicians lives. A supplemental exam focusing on content domains she did poorly on would reduce the stress for test takers across the board. I don't understand why she should have to study the entire domain of pediatrics again for an entire year. I also believe there needs to be a simpler solution for people who completed the initial certification to retest. I believe that the certification process lacks transparency (in terms of material to prepare for as well as the ability for us to learn from negative results). I've written a petition that I hope many physicians, even ones that passed, would be willing to sign. Knowing that one question is going to completely change our lives for the next year is demoralizing, but some part of me as an outsider knows something about the certification process is really, really rotten and wrong. Her co-residents and current colleagues can all attest to this, but I know it will be hard for her to believe that again after these results. My partner is a great pediatrician and a great physician. I'll love her till death, and this whole process is breaking my heart. ![]() She's worried about long-term depression, and imposter syndrome is already kicking in hard. She has already told me she is going to need therapy. I know how hard she worked and how much stress and anxiety this process put her through, and I am so worried about her for the next year. We called the ABP, and we were told that if she had got one question right (depending on the question since each one is scaled differently), she would have passed. Hi, I am a partner of a pediatric physician who just recently took the pediatric boards and didn't pass with a score of 179. ![]()
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