Emergency Medicine
Recertification and Review
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Emergency Medicine Recertification and Review
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IF YOU READ NOTHING ELSE ON THIS SITE READ THIS! The Advantage The Decker Communications advantage is quire simple. Emergency physicians are usually busy when they are on duty and ‘at the beach’ when they are not… The fact that 93% of emergency physicians wait until September or even October until starting their review process for recertification is the primary reason when 10-20% will fail to recertify and when 30-50% will have significant, rabeprazole (Aciphex) defying dyspepsia during those last 45-60 days. According to John McCabe (ABEM) only 10% of the board certified emergency physicians have participated in the required LLSA program. ABEM has issued its 3rd test and its new reading list for 2007. Around 50% of us probably don’t know how to find the articles and most don’t know where that little green and white plastic card is that ABEM sent them.
Fear Panic and Guilt are impressive motivators. According to Mel Herbert, MD (EM-RAP) the average physician requires about 4-6 exposures to encode a permanent memory protein classified as a ‘known’. Given that there are about 20,000 to 30,000 facts in emergency medicine, well just do the math… Review for examination is a daunting and arduous task that no one really embraces. Given that fact that a 6 month daily review process is the best, still many physicians delude themselves into thinking that a week’s course in Las Vegas (no distractions there) and a prayer breakfast or two will allow them to make the cut. You just cannot do it in a week or even a month. Don’t join the 7% club! Invest now! What is the Decker Program? Decker Communications has accumulated most of the 20,000 facts required to pass the boards or more importantly to practice emergency medicine. These facts, numbers, pictures, electrocardiogram, radiographs and patient presentations are in our database. At random Decker has pulled 8,000 entries from our database for 2006 and divided them in to 180 chapters. Given that there are about 170 days until the recertification examination, that the average emergency physician will be working about 70 of those days leaves 100 days and 8,000 questions or 80 questions per day. Well you probably know at least half of it. But which half do you know? Which half will they pull the questions from the half you know or the half you don’t know? Fear, panic and guilt are good allies and motivators. To make it more simple for you, Decker puts you on a schedule giving daily reminders and stimuli from emails to get off your collective asses. Yes, you'll be sick of Decker Communications before its over! But it will be over, we guarantee it! We will support your efforts until you are successful or you give up... Go ahead, just read Tintinalli's sixth edition - I'm sure that will be enough ... The Top Ten Advantages
There are two groups of 'Big 20': each year ABEM identifies 20 articles and there are the arbitrarily revised categories published in the The Model for the Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine. The mysterious first category: Signs, Symptoms and Presentations has yet to be covered in any emergency medicine textbooks or journal articles. Who Is Taking the LLSA? Not Many! According to Louis Ling, MD (the president of ABEM) registration for LLSA dropped from 29% (2004) to 12% (2005). Wow! Like you think its really going to go away if we pretend its not there? Fear, panic and guilt have a leg up! Nine percent (9%) said they aren’t going to recertify but 4% said they didn’t have a computer. WHOA! I want to stay away from them! Where are they? They must work for one of those contract managers that have made our profession so rewarding, good gads, even government emergency departments have the Internet.
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