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ABPOPPM In-Training Examination

The American Board of Podiatric Orthopedics and Primary Podiatric Medicine will be offering its In-Training Examination on Sunday, May 23, 2010. This examination will be given on-line and can be taken from any computer with Internet access. This is the second opportunity to take the In-training Examination in the 2009-2010 residency training year. A blast e-mail will be sent to all Residents, Directors and Coordinators on file with PRR in February and applications will be accessible on line at that time.

ABPOPPM has made significant changes to the format and delivery of the Examination. The updated format will allow residents and program directors to better assess the competencies achieved during training as well as provide an educational tool in its own right.

The new Residency In-Training Examination will be administered in a modular format via the Internet. Five modules comprising the examination include Orthopedics, Medicine, Wound Care, Biomechanics, and Surgical Criteria. Collectively they address the subject matter specified in the current CPME 320 document as it pertains to the specialty of Podiatric Orthopedics and Primary Podiatric Medicine. The examination is a purely voluntary self-assessment tool for all current residents and can be used at the residents' discretion as they prepare for the ABPOPPM Board Qualification examination.

Each examination module consists of fifty questions. The examination modules will all be accessible on the specified examination dates but are administered independently of one another. Residents may take any module "when they are ready" and need not take all five modules in one sitting (e.g., a PGY 1 resident in a PM&S-36 program who has completed an intensive internal medicine rotation may elect to take the Medicine module as a PGY 1 and defer the other modules until later training years). Questions may contain radiographs, photographs, and other visual material needed for a clinically relevant assessment. The full examination entails completing all five modules. Residents performing poorly on any section(s) will be given the opportunity to remediate and re-test on a subsequent examination date.

2008 EXAMINATION DATES AND LOCATION

Board Certification Exam: Saturday, June 21 - Sunday, June 22, 2008

Hilton Chicago O'Hare International Airport
Chicago, IL 60666
Tel: (773) 686-8000

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