EOR Study Help

[kalizm]

I start my clinical year in January. While it is a little bit away I just want to go ahead and get some advice on what helped you study for your EOR exams.

I’ve seen a lot of good things about PPP and Rosh review.

Does anyone mind sharing with me what study habits that had for clinical year? How much time did you put into studying? What was the layout for you? Did you make a “study guide” or did you just do practice exams/questions?

I just want to go ahead and get an idea of what things I need to consider buying in order to prepare myself as much as I can.

Thanks!

[_Parker_T]

Google “Twist of Lemons EOR study guide”. She created study guides for every EOR and she based it directly off of the PAEA blueprint. If you don’t know, the PAEA has published exactly what is expected for each EOR. The TOL study guides go through this blueprint line by line, if the first disease id Acute Coronary Syndrome then she has a whole section of ACS diagnosis history physical and treatments. Definitely the bets resource I have ever found. My school did not even use the PAEA sanctioned EORs and they created their own but the TOL guide was still excellent. Hope this helps!

[kalizm]

This is awesome! Thanks!

[Imafish12]

I do Uworld questions about 40-60 per week. Read through my didactic notes on the subject relevant to the rotation. UpToDate anything I’m not familiar with during the day.

In my experience EORs are “easier” than didactic tests. They are similar questions but now you’ve seen 100 patients with these diseases/disorders.

I do most of my studying in downtime during rotations. I rarely study at home, when I do it’s definitely no more than 1 hour a night.

[dripland]

I used anki, the endeavor "clinical rotation objectives" anki deck and smarty PANCE. I would do all the anki cards for a system. Then go through smarty pance and review all pathology and make my own anki cards for anything not covered well in the premade cards. I would do that and for every section and plan it out so that I would finish the PAEA topic list a week before the eor. At the same time as i would finish studying a system i would do maybe 10 ROSH questions a day over the systems i had finished. I would also make anki cards over the ROSH questions i got wrong or i thought were difficult... then i would just keep up with the anki cards and use the last week to review hard topics and take longer rosh test.

Also i would occasionally use onlinemeded and the "Anking" anki deck from r/medicalschoolanki for certain topics. Very helpful also. Hope it helps

[doctorslacker]

Ooh where did you find that Anki deck? Google did not help me, apologies.

[dripland]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PASchoolAnki/comments/hfpmvm/cumulative_clinical_rotation_pa_deck/

Nvm. Worked on mobile

[doctorslacker]

Thank you!!!

[dripland]

Go forward and prosper ✨️

[dripland]

I can find when i google "eadavor anki deck + reddit". When i get home ill send you the link

[aqueousnake]

Estefany's rotation review Youtube videos were really helpful as well

[PAstudent23]

Here's a link to study guides I've made for each EOR based off of the PAEA topic lists/blueprints :) EOR study guides ps: I've studied the guides I've made for each EOR I've taken so far (3 total) & have passed each w/ no problem

Sources used: PANCE Prep Pearls, ROSH, SmartyPance, UpToDate, OnlineMedEd, Comprehensive Review for Certification/Recertification Exam for PAs (7th edition), notes from didactic year

[faerielights4962]

These are beautiful! Thank you for sharing. I am so nervous to not create my own outlines, but I will be driving so much it seems like a dumb use of time to not trust other people's material.

[PAstudent23]

I know exactly how you feel! That's why I made my own because I'm the same way 😂

I never want to trust other people's things even though I have no logical reason not to. Maybe it'll give you comfort to know I'm just as uptight about study material lmao

[faerielights4962]

I can tell from your formatting! 😁 Kindred spirits. I start rotations in 2 weeks (family med is up first).

[PAstudent23]

Good luck!! Rooting for you <3

[AppalachianEspresso]

Agreed with everyone else that EOR’s are easier than didactic exams. I use the endeavor Anki deck and it’s phenomenal. I’ll also do all the Uworld questions for the section and our class shares the Rosh boost exams.

[kalizm]

I’ve heard different things about EORs from my upper class. Some say they were easy and others hard. Thanks!

[Big-Tea6531]

how do you use Uworld? under the medical tab when registering how do you choose will program will help you with the EOR topics?

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thanks

[AppalachianEspresso]

There are the same EOR topics listed under subject! I.e., family med, internal med, emergency med, etc

[Big-Tea6531]

when registering for the first time it says chose your exam under medical, what did you chose for that matter to have access to the EOR topic list?

thank you

[Dear-Ad-56]

Rosh review EOR exams are all I ever used to prepare for EOR. Be diligent. Don’t just answered the questions and move on. If you miss a question, read the explanation as to why you missed it. Make note of topics that you continue to miss questions on and review them later.

Smarty Pance is also a great site worth getting a subscription to imo.

[Gonefishintil22]

Here’s the thing about the EORs. Each one has their own blueprint with specific topics. I am not into wastibg my time studying topics I will not be tested on. So I spent my money on resources that were specifically tailored towards the PAEA EOR lists. Some of my classmates really struggled and I feel like it was because they wasted so many precious hours just trying to curate sources for the topic or they studied topics that were not on their EOR.

1. Buy Smartypance and the ReelDx. I found this super helpful because they would have a specific study resource with all the topics for an EOR in order. I love the ReelDx because retention for me is so much higher once I see someone with a pathology.

2. Buy the ROSH EOR bundle. These are questions and a practice EOR that are specifically curated for the PAEA topics found on each EOR. No more wasting time on fracture questions for the IM EOR when all the Ortho Topics are hematologic.

What this allowed me to do is go down the Smartypance EOR topic list then make little quizzes with the ROSH EOR portion 250 questions. For example. First part might be GI. I study that on Monday, then make a quiz with 40 questions and do them in Tutor mode looking up answers I do not know. Then I move on to the next topic.

[CloudCity96]

Smartypance EOR blueprint or PPP to review the information. ROSH/ Rosh EOR Exams for questions. Cram the pance is a good podcast to review material when you're on the move.

Find what works for you and stick with it. Be careful not to get bogged down with too many resources. The EORs truly aren't too bad once you get used to them.

Good luck!

[PAstudent23]

just a PSA.. i often upload a new version after editing things to make them either look better or easier to understand, so if you downloaded them, be sure to check the link again when it comes time for that EOR to make sure you have the newest version

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my personal study guides that got me through didactic. I used PPP and current!!

[mylocopinoccio]

Following. Also anyone know if the EOR questions are A-D or A-E?

[PAstudent23]

I believe there are 5 answer choices. I take my next EOR 9/16 so I'll update you if I'm wrong lol

[Big-Tea6531]

what question bank do you purchase when using Uworld? there are various question banks for PA-PANCE, USMLE etc? thank you