This blog is for your comments about my
What to Study for the 2011 ABIM Sleep Board Exam web site — what you found helpful or not helpful for board review, what you might recommend, etc.
Others will be able to see what you post and perhaps benefit from your suggestion(s).
Lawrence Martin, MD
May 1, 2011 at 11:08 pm |
Major changes made on May 1, 2011. Only a little over 5 months until the exam!
May 1, 2011 at 11:12 pm |
Comment from Dr. Meir Kryger, krygerppsm@hotmail.com
(re-entered by Lakeside Press since original was lost in a blog software fix)
Two important thoughts:
Today, May 1, is the final day for regular registration for the 2011 exam.
Remember to read the blueprint for the exam very carefully; people have misinterpreted the blueprint and thought that only 4% of the exam is will be on pediatrics. The last section of the blueprint indicates topics unique to childhood. Other sections (sleep disordered breathing, narcolepsy, normal sleep) can have pediatric questions.
November 12, 2011 at 5:34 am |
what is the cut off percentage of correct answers to pass the sleep board. Is it 60 or 70% correct answers.
November 13, 2011 at 3:55 pm |
I have no idea, only know it’s graded on a curve, and about 25% don’t pass. But what the absolute number of correct questions needed to pass, I don’t know.
Larry
January 28, 2012 at 12:45 am |
I wanted to extend my thanks for your excellent review. I am an Otolaryngologist and was just notified yesterday that I passed the boards. (1/26/12) I studied for a year before I came across your website and was impressed that your conclusions about the best resources matched my opinions up to that point exactly. I therefore used many of your recommendations moving forward and feel that you website was a great asset in helping me pass the boards.
Thanks again,
Jim
February 20, 2012 at 1:18 am |
Thanks for comment. It’s rewarding to know the website has been useful.
Larry
February 20, 2012 at 12:02 am |
I passed the Sleep Medicine Board Exam in November 2011. I found Dr. Martin’s “What to study for the 2011 Sleep Board Exam” web page very useful and I followed his “highly recommended” recommendations to the letter. His “highly recommended” provided both a structure for studying and reassurance that I was using my time wisely.
I found also very useful “Kryger’s Sleep Medicine Review” which Dr. Martin co-authored. I used the test questions as a diagnostic to identify areas of weakness as I began serious study. As a 66 year old, I took seriously Kryger et al.’s advice for older test-takers on developing test taking stamina.
I also used Avidan and Barkoukis “Review of Sleep Medicine” and if I had had the time I would have gone through Richard Berry’s new book “Fundamentals of Sleep Medicine” as I had read with pleasure his “Sleep Medicine Pearls, 2nd Edition.”
February 21, 2012 at 4:02 pm |
One more thing, I also took Nic Butkov’s PSG course in Medford, Oregon and found him to be an excellent teacher and his two-volume Atlas of Clinical Polysomnography a treasure.