Breeze the Boards
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Understand the Board oral exam format.

Plan a Board review program.

Prepare in advance for the day of the exam.

Speak effectively in public and think critically.

Accommodate different patient types and examiner styles.

Understand principles of psychopharmacology for Board discussions.

Master the diagnostic criteria for commonly encountered disorders.

 

Welcome

The Breeze the Boards® study series will help you plan a course of study, learn the necessary material and culture a mentality for success on the Board exam. The Breeze the Boards series will maximize your study efficiency and ability to assimilate the essential knowledgebase. The Breeze the Boards manual consolidates many sources for review materials including the DSM IV as a diagnostic manual, medication review books, and expert consensus reports for major mental illnesses. Having all the necessary information in one handy reference for your Board review and preparation, your can learn how to answer Board examiner questions about diagnosis and treatment quickly and confidently.

The Breeze the Boards self-test book ensures you acquisition of the key knowledgebase. The question and answer format of the self-test book guides your complete preparation of psychiatric dagnostic criteria, interview and presentation techniques. The flashcards are a compact knowledgebase that allows you to quiz yourself or have a study partner test your knowledge of DSM diagnostic criteria, treatment options and psychopharmacology. The videotape allows you to see a real-life Board candidate get through a patient interview, present the patient to Dr. Leipsic for a Board examination style exam. The videotape then shows Dr. Leipsic in a discussion of the presentation and critique to the examinee. Breeze the Boards audiotape reviews the key diagnostic interview and presentation techniques from the review series.

Taken as a package, the Breeze the Boards manual, self-test book, flashcards, audiotape/CD and videotaped interview provide an unparalleled examination review experience proven to maximize your success on the Board exam.

 



The interview and presentation techniques outlined in the handbook guided my preparation for mock boards and my oral Board exam.

- Judy Linger, M.D.