Your Echo Boards Test Prep Starts Here
Passing your Echo Boards will require more than just being clinically competent in your fellowship. To crush your Echo Boards, you will need a study plan. The foundation of a comprehensive study plan includes:
- Going to echocardiography meetings
- Testing your knowledge with sample questions
- Hands-on echocardiography readings & review
- Mastery of an echocardiography textbook
- Completing an echocardiography review course
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Tips You Need to Know For Your Echo Boards
As you have heard, This is a difficult exam if you do not take the time to prepare ahead of time. To do well on this exam you will need to do the following:
Understand The Physics of Ultrasound
Understanding how the echocardiography machine provides you with those amazing 3-D images is part of becoming a professional. This section is often used to distinguish those acting on pattern recognition and those who really know how ultraound works.
Don't Rely on High Quality Images
Many of the images given to you on the exam are of much lower quality than you are used to seeing clinicially. Don’t focus on this part, focus on the principle that they are attempting to test you on.
Be Able to Quantify What You See
The exam assumes you can differentiate between normal and abnormal. You will need to be able to quantify your findings to pass the boards. This means you will need to be able to perform many of the calculations that your echo machine now does for you automatically.
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The Echo Board Exams
Six different Echo Boards exams are beginning in 2019. You will take a specific exam, depending on your clinical background. Below we highlight what is on each exam and who is the intended audience.
Examination of SpecialCompetence in Adult Echocardiography (ASCeXAM®)
Like most professional certification exams you can’t just walk in and pass your echo boards without proper preparation. The pass rates on these exams are consistently low year-to-year. Here are the pass rates for 2018 examinations:
- The Examination of Special Competence in Adult Echocardiography (ASCeXAM) had a pass rate of only 72%
Examination of SpecialCompetence in Advanced Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography(Advanced PTEeXAM®)
This exam is for the perioperative echocardiographer. If you are a cardiothoracic anesthesiology fellow, this is the exam you will need to register for.
- The Examination of Special Competence in Advanced Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography (APTEeXAM) had a pass rate of 86%
Examination of Special Competence in BasicPerioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography (Basic PTEeXAM)
The Basic Exam is only offered every other year. The next exam date is in July of 2020.
- The Examination of Special Competence in Basic Perioperative Transesophageal (Basic PTEeXAM) had one of the highest pass rates at 90%
Recertification Examination of Special Competence in Adult Echocardiography (ReASCE®)
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Recertification Examination of Special Competence in Advanced Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography (ReAPTE®)
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Examination of Special Competence in Critical Care Echocardiography (CCEeXAM)
The newest of the Echo Board Exams, this test will be first offered in 2020.
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