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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....

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...

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. So much of anesthesiology...

Tomorrow morning at 8 AM, I'll begin the last in-training exam (ITE) of my anesthesiology residency. My initial lack of motivation to study has been largely replaced by desperation fueled by watching many of...

As a follow-up post to preparing for the ABA Basic Exam which I took between my CA-1 and CA-2 years, I'll be taking the Advanced Exam a month or so after finishing residency (~...

I'm finished with my third call shift in my first six days of pediatric anesthesia. Varying levels of fatigue have definitely set in, but this falls short of the profound impact the critically ill...

I recently received an inquiry from an MD/PhD friend of mine who is returning to clinical rotations after completing his thesis. Hi Rishi, I was hoping to get some advice from you. I'm going...

Just wanted to drop a post commemorating my completion of the anesthesia in-training exam (ITE) as a CA-2 resident! It was 200 questions and overall very fair. Now it's time to celebrate with some video games!