Category: Career
How to Communicate with Patients with Aphasia
Every year 795,000 people in the US suffer a stroke. About 87% of all strokes are ischemic strokes in which blood flow to the brain is blocked. St ...
Caregivers on the Rise — Integral to the Care Team
It’s common knowledge that the population is aging. The US Census Bureau estimates that by next year there will be 50 million Baby Boomers over th ...
From Residency to Attendingship: Tips for Success
I still remember Match Day like it was yesterday. And just over ten years later, here I am a full-fledged attending, having been in practice for thr ...
Continuing Medical Education: CME State Requirements
State by state breakdown of CME requirements. Find out how many CME hours are required to maintain your license. ...
What It Takes To Become a Correctional Nurse
A correctional nurse is one of the most unique positions in healthcare. While most nurses may never envision a career behind bars, it’s a rewardin ...
Explaining Alzheimer’s vs. Dementia vs. Natural Memory Loss
The sad and scary truth is: 5.7 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease. Over the next 30 years that number is expected to nearly tr ...
Try Your Hand at these Pediatric Cardiology Board Review Questions
Are you preparing for the Pediatric Cardiology Board Exam? It can be overwhelming to get started. A great way to identify personal weakn ...
ABIM Knowledge Check-In Explained
It’s meant to make life easier for physicians but is still very complicated. The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) is offering a two-year ass ...
Important Considerations to Help You Pass the NCLEX-RN®
If you're wrapping up nursing school and facing the NCLEX-RN®, you might be intimidated by the career-making (or breaking) exam. The NCLEX-RN® exa ...
Owning the Residency Training Process – You Get Out What You Put In
Whether you matched your top choice or your #10 choice for residency, you will learn to appreciate several critical points that are vital to your ...
Part I: Private Practice Versus Academic Medicine
As Benjamin Franklin once said, “Failing to plan is planning to fail.” While potentially cliché, I've seen this statement holds true in medicine. Thro ...
Drowsy Driving: Long Shifts May Result in Impairment Behind the Wheel
You’re done with your shift. It’s time to go home. How many hours have you worked without sleep? If you haven’t slept at least five hours in the l ...
Becoming a Military Doctor: Weighing Your Options
Military doctors are some of the bravest men and women in the world. Pursuing a medical profession in the military comes with sacrifice, but it ca ...
Your Patient Population is Aging – Are You Ready?
If you haven’t noticed already, your patient population is aging. Baby Boomers, those adults born between 1946 and 1964, were the largest demograp ...
USMLE Step 2CK Question Banks: UWorld vs. Kaplan vs. BoardVitals
If your USMLE Step 2CK exam is coming up, you've come to the right place to figure out exactly how to review. To start, let's make sure we kno ...
Substance Abuse Within Medical Professionals
There is a commonly held belief that physicians have one of the highest rates of alcoholism and substance abuse of any profession, but is it true? ...
3 Ways Online Board Review Protects You Like Sunscreen
This summer you'll need to be protecting yourself from the sun by loading up on your SPF. In a lot of ways, protecting yourself with SPF is the sa ...
25 Items Doctors Typically Pack for Vacation
When you pack for a vacation you probably load up on SPF 15 (or higher), hand sanitizer (pocket bac, floating pac), tissues, and ibuprofen. That’s a g ...
4 AGPCNP Free Practice Questions for the ANCC Exam
Just started studying for your Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Board Certification Exam? Whether you've been reviewing for mont ...
BoardVitals Partners with ZDoggMD to Honor Nurses with ‘Nurse Virginia’ Video
As part of National Nurses Week, BoardVitals Partnered with ZDoggMD with this "Nurse Virginia" video, which is a parody on the song, "Meet Virgini ...