After driving to Long Island on Wednesday for my interview, I jumped into another rental car on Thursday night and headed down to Conshohocken Pennsylvania with Anna. I had to take my board exam, the physical exam portion. This is what my school has been training me for. In the last 3 years we have had dozens of patient/actor encounters on campus where they time us and give us specific tasks we need to do and a specific clinic note we have to write. Going into the exam on Friday, I felt very confident and prepared because my school had trained us well....and i dont say that very often!
On Friday, I got to the testing center at 7:30am and was there until 3pm. I had 12 patient encounters. Each was 14 minutes then we had 9 minutes to write up a clinic note. Right when that 9 minutes was up, we walked to the next room and started the next encounter right away. We had 4 "patients" at a time, then took a lunch break, had another 4, took a 15min break, then finished up with 4 more. It was exhausting and my hand was hurting by the end of the afternoon.
It wasnt considerably hard, just time consuming and EXPENSIVE. The test itself costs $1200. Yuuuuup, they sure do know how to make money off of med students.
Ill find out if i passed in about 6 weeks. It has a 97% first time pass rate so i'm not too nervous [hopefully that doesnt jinx me!]
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