Earlier this morning, I was notified that I passed my critical care board examination and am now officially board certified in critical care medicine by the American Board of Anesthesiology! Two board certifications down… one more to go! 🙂
I sat for my written critical care boards this morning, and just as advertised, it was a tough exam indeed! Unlike many of the other standardized exams I’ve taken in my training thus far, there really was no consensus regarding study materials.
Yesterday marked an important day in my professional career. I passed my ABA applied exam! I am now officially board certified and recognized as a diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology (D.ABA).
Well, it’s finally over! I just landed back in Boston after spending the morning taking the standardized oral examination (SOE) and objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) at the testing center in Raleigh, North Carolina.
In exactly five weeks, I’ll be in Raleigh, North Carolina to take the last exam which stands between me and board certification in anesthesiology – the applied exam consisting of the standardized oral examination (SOE) and a new objective structured clinical examination (OSCE).
I received an email yesterday stating that my APPLIED Exam has been scheduled for Monday, March 5, 2018 at the testing center in Raleigh, North Carolina. This $2,100 exam will be my last hurdle before becoming officially board certified in anesthesiology.
I’ll be taking my critical care medicine (CCM) board exam on October 13, 2018 just over three months into my cardiothoracic anesthesiology fellowship. The American Board of Anesthesiology posts a content outline for the CCM exam, so I’m rewriting the outline in a Google Document and basically filling in the…
To become a board certified anesthesiologist, we must pass our two-part written boards. I took the $775 “basic exam” between my PGY-2 and PGY-3 years on 6/12/2015 and the $775 “advanced exam” on 7/28/2017. Just got word this week that I passed the advanced exam too. After passing the advanced…
As of this morning (and assuming I passed), I’m officially finished with my anesthesiology written boards. Moving to a new city and starting fellowship made it difficult to study for the exam, but it’s finally over. Now I can turn my attention to studying critical care 100%… until my anesthesiology…
I’ll be taking my actual applied exam (OSCE and oral boards) in the spring of 2018, but tomorrow, I’ll be taking my first official mock oral board exam with the department.