ABOS Part I

I'm looking for an ABOS board review book for Part I, especially with questions. I am not taking a review course. Any recommendations of books others have used to pass.

Also, any correlation to OITE scores and passing ABOS Part I.

Thanks.

I'm not sure if there is a good question based orthopedic review book out there. I personally read Miller's review and the latest OKU during the three weeks before the test.

I'm not sure about a correlation between the two tests. However, if you are a good test taker, then you would probably do well on both. However, if you get good OITE scores b/c you read lots of old tests and get the repeated questions right, then you may not fare as well on the boards.

The only correlation that I am aware of (one that my chairman hammers home to us every chance he gets) is that residents whose OITE scores are less than 35-40th percentile (as pgy3-5) have a higher fail rate than those who score higher.

my program director quotes that study too - apparently if you are under the 35th %ile, your chances of failing go significantly up.

those statistics may be true, but i know several residents who passed Part I of the boards without doing well on the OITE. the OITE is too over-rated.

Our program director gives us the following OITE YIT percentiles to show us if we're on track to pass the Boards: PGY-2 60%, PGY-3 65%, PGY-4 70%, PGY-5 72-75%.