MCCQE Part 2: A Resident

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MCCQE Part 2 A Residents View

• Dr. Aaron Aggarwal
• PGY6, Clinical Fellow
• Queens University

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Who Is This Clown??

• RCPSC Internal Medicine specialist
• Clinical Fellow in Sleep Medicine
• Wrote my MCCQE Part 2 while training at Memorial
  University in 2006
• Marker for the MCCQE the past 2 years
• Made changes to help with consistency, accuracy
  and expectations

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Why Should I Care?

• Queens trainees have been steadily declining in
  performance over the last 4 years (the worst in
  the country last year)
• Questions are more difficult and complex
• Markers have higher expectations
• Residents are trained less and are less
  experienced than before

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Some Of My Ideas / Memories

• Much of the exam is Internal Medicine based so
  those residents have slight advantage with
  respect to studying
• But the other stuff is much more long forgotten
• Should try to study amongst specialties

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Basic Tips - OSCEs

• You need to practice in an OSCE format
• Say what you are doing
• Explain why you are doing things
• Let the examiners know what your thought process
  is and/or differential diagnoses
• Be thorough in your evaluation
• Dont forget about the touchy-feely stuff

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Basic Tips - Written

• Ensure that you read the question
• Ensure that you read the instructions!!
• They mean what they say
• First answer on the line vs. many lines available
• Be as specific as possible with answers