Recent content by LoudBark

Ha ha ha. That is pretty funny.

How did you have enough time to get through the exam if you used Up to Date for 80% of the questions? Aren't you only allotted an average of about 2 minutes per question? You would have to be pretty quick with finding the answer on Up To Date with all those questions. It sounds like a pretty...

You may be disappointed when you find you are not feeling good on the inside from doing a nephrology fellowship.......and no one is bowing down to you with immense respect once you become a nephrologist. Those quite honestly do not seem like legitimate reasons to do a nephrology fellowship and...

You are studying for the LKA? I thought the whole idea of LKA is that you don't study for it like you do for the 10 year exam where you spend months cramming prior to the exam. The ABIM touted the LKA as some lower stakes thing you just do on your own time without the cramming and studying and...

GI was actually an easy fellowship to match in to before screening colonoscopies were recommended in the early 1990's. The screening colonoscopy changed everything and GI became a very lucrative followed by a very popular and competitive field. Nephrology on the other hand, does have screening...

The ABIM encourages you to do LKA while on vacation This is not satire. This is not a joke. The ABIM released a since deleted tweet encouraging doctors to do the LKA while on vacation. A real internal medicine MD named Elizabeth Goetz is an obvious shill for the ABIM. Love the picture of her...

Can not say I disagree one bit with any of what the ASH says below. Even if you are not a hematologist, it can apply to any specialty under the ABIM. September 27, 2023 Richard Baron, MD, MACP President and Chief Executive Officer American Board of Internal Medicine 510 Walnut Street, Suite...

If there is ever a board exam (or now a LKA) question, the correct answer is always don't MRI, CT, ultrasound, or an echo or whatever. In real life medicine, the correct answer is almost always (with decent amount of uncertainty with the diagnosis) to do it. The reality is we live in a very...

The short answer, legal extortion. Pay up......or we drop your board certification.

"But I got my letter, and loans zeroed out, in February." I thought you were an MD Phd from Downstate? I had always heard that the MD Phd students from other schools I knew of had their tuition taken care of and even had a stipend given to them and they graduate with zero debt. Was this not...

If you had let's say stabilized the patient with fluids +/- blood +/- pressors..........you would not on your own been able to order a CT in an emergent situation and only the surgeon can do that? Are you at an academic hospital? Have never seen a community hospital setting where the...

Every hospital I have ever been at has bylaws that the attending physician has to do a discharge summary on every patient who leaves that hospital more than 24 hours after admission........whether that be a legitimate discharge, death, or AMA.

30-45 sec a question is for a whiz who never needs to use outside sources. Yes there are plenty who may be like that......and great for them if they are. But for us mere mortals who can not recall some obscure disease we never see in real life practice (but some bozo in the ABIM question...

Thank you. So with 4 minutes a question, you think that gives you enough time? Also, how is that thing scored? You have to get a certain number of correct questions every 5 years to remain certified? Do you know how many you need correct?

Anyone done the new ABIM Longitudinal Knowledge Assessment for your IM or subspecialty recertification? So choice is between a 10 year test and the cramming material that you probably never or seldom see on a daily basis and studying for months before.......vs doing 30 questions every 3 months...