Avi S.
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Hi all,
Took the exam today. Glad to be done with it. I felt reasonably well prepared, but there were definitely some tricky questions in addition to several poorly designed questions that I thought had more than one correct answer. I emailed the NBE about these after the exam. Does anyone know if the NBE uses test questions on this exam?
Image quality was decent; for some questions it was very poor and the contrast adjustment feature doesn’t help much. I felt I had plenty of time and had some time leftover after each block to review the questions. Some of the abdominal / lung / trauma stuff was tricky. Actually it had a lot more trauma than I anticipated. LOTS of pericardial disease! Know this stuff cold if you’re going to take it.
My prep: started prepping in earnest in mid October 2023. Disclaimer: I am a full time pulm/CC physician in a community setting and have been in practice for 7 years. I do echo’s routinely in the ICU, probably 3-5 per shift.
- SCCM echo board review course (offered annually in November in Rosemont, IL) - attended in person, listened to all the recorded lectures 4x and did their 167 practice question twice
- read the Otto textbook of clinical echo (minus chapters on stress echo, 3D echo, intracardiac echo, etc and anything else not relevant to the exam).
- clinical echo self-assessment tool by Asher and Klein - 1000+ questions - did all the questions twice (minus irrelevant chapters) and took detailed notes. This was my main study source. Representative page from my handwritten notes below. This horrified my wife. Happy to create a PDF and share with anyone who wants it.
- read Edelman’s understanding ultrasound physics but did not do his practice questions
- critical care echo review by Chang, et al. - 1200+ questions - did them twice and incorporated some notes into the notes i took for Asher and klein
- U of Utah perioperative echo online lectures (free)
Per the NBE results will be available in 10-12 weeks.
Curious what everyone else’s experience was, and good luck to all.
Took the exam today. Glad to be done with it. I felt reasonably well prepared, but there were definitely some tricky questions in addition to several poorly designed questions that I thought had more than one correct answer. I emailed the NBE about these after the exam. Does anyone know if the NBE uses test questions on this exam?
Image quality was decent; for some questions it was very poor and the contrast adjustment feature doesn’t help much. I felt I had plenty of time and had some time leftover after each block to review the questions. Some of the abdominal / lung / trauma stuff was tricky. Actually it had a lot more trauma than I anticipated. LOTS of pericardial disease! Know this stuff cold if you’re going to take it.
My prep: started prepping in earnest in mid October 2023. Disclaimer: I am a full time pulm/CC physician in a community setting and have been in practice for 7 years. I do echo’s routinely in the ICU, probably 3-5 per shift.
- SCCM echo board review course (offered annually in November in Rosemont, IL) - attended in person, listened to all the recorded lectures 4x and did their 167 practice question twice
- read the Otto textbook of clinical echo (minus chapters on stress echo, 3D echo, intracardiac echo, etc and anything else not relevant to the exam).
- clinical echo self-assessment tool by Asher and Klein - 1000+ questions - did all the questions twice (minus irrelevant chapters) and took detailed notes. This was my main study source. Representative page from my handwritten notes below. This horrified my wife. Happy to create a PDF and share with anyone who wants it.
- read Edelman’s understanding ultrasound physics but did not do his practice questions
- critical care echo review by Chang, et al. - 1200+ questions - did them twice and incorporated some notes into the notes i took for Asher and klein
- U of Utah perioperative echo online lectures (free)
Per the NBE results will be available in 10-12 weeks.
Curious what everyone else’s experience was, and good luck to all.