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Successful Preparation for the Psychiatry Oral Exam is written to help the exam candidates effectively
organize the introduction, interview, oral presentation, and video exam phases of the ABPN Part II examination. It provides
detailed how-to techniques to enhance candidates' performance and improve the chance of passing this rigorous test of their
competence.
Successful Preparation offers several unique features. This book:
- focuses on the basic and practical techniques to successfully organize the collection and presentation of data.
- establishes the essential goals to be achieved during the exam.
- highlights solid methodologies to start a winning introduction, obtain adequate history, and apply effective history-taking
techniques.
- offers a commonsense approach toward a powerful case formulation, differential diagnosis, and treatment plan.
- introduces several effective organizing strategies, such as the use of templates and cassette and video recording, not
commonly taught or espoused by review courses, clinical supervisors, and mock reviewers.
- offers a practical guide to negotiating the video examination hurdle through stop, look, listen, and note-taking techniques.
- recognizes the common causes of disorganization and sugggests ways to effectively deal with them.
- discusses helpful methodologies in dealing with the intricacies associated with the question-and-answer portion of the
exam.
- and much more!
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"Michael G. Rayel has written a textbook, guidebook, and workbook, all in one, designed to overcome those oral board
anxieties. . . .This is an extremely user-friendly guidebook, which candidates wil read and reread as the magic date draws
closer. The no-nonsense suggestions are clear and basic and the underlying rationales, eminently sound."
Excerpt from his Foreword:
Thomas G. Gutheil, MD
Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
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