Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.Įxception Details: System.ArgumentException: A route named 'Unsupported' could not be found in the route collection.Īn unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Parameter name: name Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. They have decided that 25 percent is appropriate (personally I would aim for 10 percent or so).A route named 'Unsupported' could not be found in the route collection.Parameter name: name Server Error in '/' Application.Ī route named 'Unsupported' could not be found in the route collection. They can standardize the scores to whatever.

I think they want a quarter of people to fail it. I do think my exam had a block mixed in where they were trying out new questions as there was one block with particularly difficult/bone headed questions (and also some stupidly easy ones) similar to your Tylenol experience. I haven't done general peds for 6 years at this point and found it easier than the specialty I practice daily. I believe from the report that that is about an average score. I got the exact same score as you on the peds. Honestly the Neuro boards were much much harder. It doesn't help that a dozen or so people take it every 2 years. Nobody really knows what is on it either and the content guidelines are a joke.

Costs way more than the pediatric boards. I get the privilege of taking the NDD boards boards now that I am boarded in neurology and pediatrics. That more than a quarter failed it this year and that the number rises each year at least in part could and should be mitigated by increased transparency by the ABP and really sitting down and thinking about what information do we REALLY need to know to be a passable pediatrician. Like, I guess we are supposed to memorize the toxic level of serum Tylenol?

They gave me a Tylenol serum level and an amount of time since ingestion, but then didn’t give me the nomogram. An example I frequently bring up is a question about Tylenol overdose.

Meanwhile there were a not insignificant portion of ABP questions that I swear to you did not even have a correct answer or tested bullshit that we could not possibly memorize. I mean there were some unfair sounding questions on ABIM but they were outnumbered significantly by the sensible semi obvious questions. Obviously this is an N of 1 but that I had no fucking clue how well I really did on ABP speaks to the fact that the test is kept a mystery for really no good reason. In the end, I did slightly below average in ABIM and passed by a fairly significant margin for ABP (204), although because the standard deviation was not published with the report it’s hard to know. For reasons unbeknownst to me (though one could posit it is likely at least in part motivated by greed) the ABP exam costs significantly more than the ABIM exam, despite it being pretty much the same length and also being a computerized multiple choice test.įinally, I will say that I walked out of ABIM feeling fairly confident that I probably passed and that I walked out of the ABP feeling pretty confident that I did NOT pass. It’s for MOC which everyone knows tends to be more straightforward. The only endorsed practice test that the ABP has isn’t even for the initial certification. Yes there are numerous w banks out there but nothing comes close to the MKSAP w bank for the ABIM exam, which you can basically assure yourself that if you are getting x% of questions right on the w bank then that correlates to y score on the real test. I took ABIM and ABP this year and fortunately passed both and while neither test was particularly enjoyable, it’s painfully obvious that the ABP exam has numerous flaws.įor one, there’s a lack of truly standardized study material/prep material.

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