Category: Career
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 [...]
PANCE Free Practice Questions
The PANCE exam is a fairly straightforward test - the questions are generally not designed to trick the student and the idea is to test fundamenta [...]
Free Otolaryngology Board Review Questions
Preparing for the 2019 ABOto ENT Qualifying Exam is no easy feat. But not to worry - any Otolaryngologist will tell you the key to passing is to b [...]
New Year’s Resolutions to Share with Your Patients
A New Year’s resolution that you can share with patients? That doesn’t sound even vaguely realistic. The point is, it might be possible to share N [...]
Andrea Paul, MD: What I Wish I’d Known Before Starting Medical School
If you’re staring down a path to becoming a doctor, there are many, probably too many, things to consider. I finished medical school and became a [...]
How to Get the Most Out of Your CME Money
Are you scrambling to complete your Continuing Medical Education (CME) requirements? Were you provided with a CME stipend and have yet to use it? With [...]
Earning CME: Drawback of CME Conferences
There are many ways to earn CME nowadays. It doesn't need to be an out of town, expensive CME conference anymore, and that shift might be benefici [...]
5 Different Ways You Can Fulfill Your MOC Requirements
As a physician, Maintenance of Certification (MOC) must be kept current alongside continuing medical education (CME). It is considered a demonstra [...]
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. [...]
Gift Ideas to Get For Medical Residents
Buying gifts is never as easy as it seems. Whether it’s a Secret Santa party or buying something for the person you work with all day, every day, [...]
How I Re-Entered The Workforce As An NP After 10 Years
After finishing graduate school and working for a few years as a Family Nurse Practitioner, I took some time off to raise my family: 10 years to b [...]
Free Continuing Education Courses for Nurses by NursingCE
Nursing is a lifelong learning process. One that you should be passionate about as the healthcare industry is a rapidly changing environment that [...]
Tips for Getting Time Off From Work for the Holidays (they probably won’t work)
If you are already scheduled to work the holidays, your shift is probably cast in stone. Each healthcare organization has its own strict schedulin [...]
USMLE Step 3 Question Banks: UWorld vs. Kaplan vs. BoardVitals
Are you preparing for your USMLE Step 3 Exam? The USMLE Step 3 exam had a 97% pass rate in 2017 among all test takers and thus, has become notorio [...]
How I Passed My FNP Certification Exam: Top Study Tools
So you have crossed the first hurdle and finished your Nurse Practitioner (NP) program – Congratulations! Next on your list of priorities is your [...]
Industry Sponsored vs. Fee-Based CME
There is a great deal of controversy over whether CME should be presented with or without corporate sponsorship, the majority of which is Big Phar [...]
Try These Family Nurse Practitioner Practice Questions
Here are some free Family Nurse Practitioner practice questions from the AANP FNP & ANCC FNP BoardVitals question banks.
Family Nurse Practit [...]
PNCB vs ANCC Pediatric NP Exam: How to Decide Which One to Take
When you are ready to take the boards to become a certified pediatric nurse practitioner there are a lot of details to consider including content, te [...]
9 Things You Must Know Before Taking the USMLE Step 1 Exam
The United States Medical Licensure Exam (USMLE) Step 1, commonly called “the Boards,” is a standardized test that assesses a medical student’s ab [...]
An Interview with Daniel Cobine, Rad Tech
To honor Radiologic Technologist Week, we asked a few to tell us a bit about what led them down the Rad Tech path, and what advice they may have for f [...]