I Failed My Board Exam - What now?

The STATMed Podcast

Feb 4 2022 • 55 mins

We can help you figure out what’s next after a failed board exam  “Help! I failed my board exam… can you help me?”  We hear this - or a version of this - statement nearly every day. So, if you’ve failed a board exam, you’re absolutely not alone. And, you’re not necessarily looking at the end of your medical career. At STATMed Learning, we work closely with students who have failed the COMLEX, NAVLE, USMLE, or other medical boards exams.  In this episode of the STATMed Podcast, Ryan Orwig and David LaSalle dig into how STATMed Learning can help students who have failed their medical boards. They break down what students can expect from the STATMed Boards Test-Taking  Workshop and the Boards Study Skills Course. “Just to be clear, I think sometimes it’s easy to think that what we’re talking about is that we’re going to teach you some “hacks” to get past the test-taker, to read the mind of what they’re doing, to “beat the test”. That’s not what we’re talking about. These tests are not something where we can institute two hacks, and all of a sudden our scores are improving. This is really about learning about who you are as a test-taker, historically. We have identified about 15 individual bad habits that people implement while taking tests and working on a test. Most people aren’t doing 15 things wrong, most people are doing maybe four or five things wrong, and of those, they’re doing two or three things wrong all the time, and that’s what is costing them the majority of their questions. So that’s what the Boards Workshop is about; [discovering] the two or three things you’re doing wrong, how to spot them and what to put in place of that behavior. It’s in-depth, it’s intense, and it’s super effective.” - David LeSalle

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