Dental and Emergency Medicine Questions Added to EXAM MASTER
EXAM MASTER has released "Basic Sciences for Dental Examination Part I," a self-study and self-assessment tool for students preparing to take Part I of the National Board Dental Examination. EXAM MASTER is already used at Pitt and UPMC by medical students (USMLE exams), residents (USMLE and board certification), and physicians (board certification and SPEX). It helps organize test preparation by:
- assessing your strengths & weaknesses
- providing detailed explanations with every question
- offering realistic practice exams
- tracking your performance in detail
"Basic Sciences for Dental Examination Part I" is a preliminary product that is still under development. It currently has approximately 1,800 study questions covering anatomic sciences (183 questions), biochemistry and physiology (856 questions), microbiology and pathology (775 questions), and dental anatomy and occlusion (nine questions). Besides adding some clinically oriented questions, the company also plans to develop a comparable resource for Part II.
Emergency Medicine Certification Review, a new resource for those preparing to take the American Board of Emergency Medicine written exam, features more than 550 questions on clinical topics such as abdominal and gastrointestinal disorders, cardiovascular disorders, systemic infectious disorders, and trauma, plus administrative aspects of internal medicine, presentation and symptoms, and toxicology and pharmacology.
This resource can be accessed by typing "Exam Master" into the search.HSLS box on the HSLS home page. Use it from home by first logging in to HSLS Remote Access <www.hsls.pitt.edu/services/remote>.
To get started:
1. On the EXAM MASTER OnLine home page, click on the "First Time Registration" link below the box to set up an account. This will keep track of your study activity.
2. After registering and logging in, click on the "Create Exams" button on the left to generate a practice test.
3. Choose exam type: Quick Start (automatically creates a 50-item exam; good for new users), Custom (lets you specify the content you want), or Key Word (creates an exam whose questions are based on words or phrases you enter).
4. At the bottom of the list of exam products, select "Basic Sciences for Dental Examination Part I" or "Emergency Medicine Certification Review."
-- Patricia Weiss
