BoardVitals™

Board Review Question Banks

Overview


BoardVitals helps healthcare practitioners train for licensing, board certification, and in-service exams in over 70 health and medical specialties. BoardVitals brings together content from major publishers, universities, and top healthcare professionals into a single platform, creating the largest training ecosystem in health and medicine.

Providing the highest quality content, BoardVitals doesn’t just provide a question bank, they provide up-to-date explanations from the literature with their answers and give detailed feedback and an assessment of progress broken down by subject areas. With each question, users can see how they compare to their peers and gauge the difficulty of the question by what percentage of peers answered it correctly or chose the same option. The BoardVitals full-length practice exam is a great way to judge overall preparedness and estimate what scoring might be on the real thing.

From reputable and trusted sources, BoardVitals content is referenced to many major dermatology, surgery, pediatric, cardiology, gastroenterology, obstetrics, gynecology, emergency medicine, internal medicine, family medicine, pathology, cytology, laboratory, psychiatry, neurology, nursing, surgical tech and psychopharmacology texts, and journals.


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BoardVitals is a high-quality, effective and powerful board review tool that can be used anytime and anywhere via a phone, tablet or computer.


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Features:
  • • The highest quality board review questions from leading medical publishers, research institutions and practicing clinicians
  • • High-yield, vetted questions listed up front in an effort to maximize study time
  • • Constantly evolving cloud-based system that updates every 24 to 48 hours based on changes and feedback
  • • Ability for users to create customized practice tests based on number of questions, subjects and more, to simulate exams and help increase board pass rates
  • • Advanced statistics so users can know where their strengths and weaknesses are, with suggested questions based on their performance
  • • Detailed, up-to-date explanations with each answer, with references and links to applicable sources
  • • Administrators can monitor student or resident usage and performance to serve as a proactive remediation tool or data collection resource relating to ACGME Milestones
  • • Faculty can send customized exams to students or utilize questions in classroom discussions and weekly didactic review sessions
Medical Board Exam Specialties
  • • Addiction Medicine
  • • Anesthesiology ADVANCED
  • • Anesthesiology BASIC
  • • Cardiology
  • • Child Neurology
  • • Child Psychiatry
  • • CREOG
  • • Dermatology
  • • Echocardiography
  • • Emergency Medicine
  • • ENT Oral Boards
  • • ENT (Otolaryngology)
  • • Family Medicine
  • • Gastroenterology (GI)
  • • Geriatric Medicine
  • • Hematology and Oncology
  • • Hospice and Palliative Care
  • • Hospital Medicine
  • • Infectious Disease
  • • Internal Medicine
  • • Nephrology
  • • Neurology
  • • Nuclear Cardiology
  • • OBGYN
  • • Ophthalmology
  • • Orthopedic Surgery
  • • Pain Medicine
  • • Pathology
  • • Pediatric Cardiology
  • • Pediatrics
  • • Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  • • Podiatry (ABPM)
  • • Podiatry Foot Surgery
  • • Podiatry RRA Surgery
  • • Preventive Medicine
  • • Pulmonary Critical Care
  • • Psychiatry
  • • Psychiatry Vignettes
  • • Radiology Certifying Exam
  • • Radiology CORE
  • • Rheumatology
  • • Sleep Medicine
  • • Sports Medicine
  • • Surgery
  • • Urology
Medical Licensing Exams
  • • APMLE Part 1
  • • APMLE Part 2
  • • APMLE Part 3
  • • *COMLEX®
  • • COMVEX
  • • Shelf Exams
  • • SPEX
  • • USMLE Step 1, 2 and 3

*Disclaimer:
COMLEX® or COMLEX-USA® are registered trademarks of the National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners, Inc. Teton Data Systems Makers of STAT!Ref is not affiliated with the NBOME and the NBOME does not review or endorse our company's products.

BoardVitals Dental Exams
  • • NBDE I and II
  • • NBDHE Dental Hygiene

BoardVitals Nursing Exams
  • • Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ANCC and AACN)
  • • Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
  • • Certified Nurse Midwife
  • • Critical Care Nursing
  • • Family Nurse Practitioner (AANP and ANCC)
  • • NCLEX PN
  • • NCLEX RN
  • • Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
  • • Pharmacotherapeutics (CE for Advanced Practice Nurses)
  • • Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

BoardVitals Other Exams
  • • ABB Bioanalysis
  • • ARRT Radiography
  • • NAPLEX
  • • NPLEX Part 1
  • • NPLEX Part 2
  • • PANCE
  • • Surgical Tech
BoardVitals CME

Earn CME Hours Online. BoardVitals offers an easy way to complete all Continuing Medical Education (CME) requirements quickly, easily, and on schedule. BoardVitals has AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (state and national requirements), Category 2 (MOC points and hours/SAM credits), and is intended for preparation for Category 3 (Maintenance of Certification Exam). In fact, BoardVitals is the only provider to offer Category 2 CME institutionally!

BoardVitals users can prepare for their recertification exams while earning the mandatory CME hours. A single self-assessment activity enables users to complete their annual CME requirements in less than a day. Content is compiled by over 200 medical specialists who have prepared for and taken the recertification exams and BoardVitals content is certified by IPMA.

BoardVitals Contributors

BoardVitals contributors are experts from top tier academic and practicing institutions. These institutions include:

  • • Yale University
  • • Harvard Medical School
  • • Duke University
  • • Mt. Sinai Hospital
  • • Vanderbilt University
  • • Columbia University, New York
  • • Bellevue Medical Center
  • • Emory University
  • • St. Luke's Hospital
  • • Tufts University School Of Medicine
  • • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  • • Boston University Roger Williams Medical Center
  • • Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
  • • Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago

The primary author for each question bank is board certified in that specialty, and, in most cases, has taken and passed the initial or re-certifying exam within the past few years. The vast majority of the BoardVitals primary authors have scored in the top tier on their Step exams.

In addition to the primary author, BoardVitals typically contracts with dozens of writers for each question bank. From those, they usually keep about a third. Each of the writers are assigned a specific portion of the blueprint for their specialty/sub-specialty.

BoardVitals uses a multi-tiered editing process. Each question from the author and the contractors are run past their internal team of medical editors, which checks for medical accuracy, grammar, formatting, and that the content follows the blueprint.

The content is then continually updated based on feedback from faculty and students. The feedback loop goes to the BoardVitals editors, who review each piece of feedback. New updates are added as the feedback is verified. They process hundreds feedback emails per week, many of which suggest updates or fixes across their 60,000+ questions.


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Dr. Gary Choy, Radiology
Attending at Harvard Medical School
Most Comprehensive online board review resource for numerous specialties I have seen. Excellent quality and quantity of questions available. Wish I had this sooner.
Danny Soares
Otolaryngology/Plastics Fellow at Emory University
Board vitals is the ideal complementary review source for any resident seeking to maximize their board exam review. The otolaryngology questions challenge you to apply your knowledge of frequently-tested ENT principles in a variety of fields, ranging from otology and facial plastic and reconstructive surgery to pediatric otolaryngoloy and head & neck oncology. Each question is written in a board-style format and each answer offers a detailed review of key concepts. Otolaryngology residents, myself included, have been waiting for this type of review material to be available to us and it's finally here. I highly recommend it!
Dr. Florence Kwo
DMD, Graduate of Harvard Dental School
BoardVitals is a great adjunct to your study materials when preparing for the NBDE II. The questions help to prepare you well for the exam and cover a wide variety of important topics. The ease of completing the practice questions online at your convenience is one of the strengths of the resource. In addition, the detailed answer explanations help to review the important concepts and take away points from the question. I highly recommend it!
Dr. Ellsworth, Neonatology Fellow
Mayo Clinic
This question bank is exactly what I need to prepare to take my pediatric boards. The scope of the material is extremely high yield and really focuses on what I need to know to be most success ful when taking the boards. The answer discussions for each question are well written and are mini-lectures in and unto themselves. I would recommend this question bank to anyone looking to improve their general pediatric knowledge.
Susan Bader
Baylor University Louise Herrington School of Nursing
Several of our May BSN grads who have passed the NCLEX have stopped in to say hi. Uniformly, they've said how great BoardVitals is!
Dr. L Schneider
Neurology Resident at The Johns Hopkins Hospital
The BoardVitals neurology question bank questions challenge your clinical knowledge while providing detailed and clear explanations that add to your understanding of the pathophysiology of the neurosciences. This is a great way to beef up your knowledge for the boards and RITE exams!
Sofia Kazi
MD Chief Resident at Mount Sinai Medical Center New York, NY
It's great to have a bank of so many questions, AP and CP, that I can take with me wherever I go- no need to drag around a heavy textbook! BoardVitals makes it easy to make use of even a few minutes of downtime!
MGH
McLean Graduate, Neurology
I have recommended and will continue to recommend BV to the many people I'm in contact with, both at MGH and elsewhere. As I have now seen the content of the actual board exam, I cannot comment on board content but suffice it to say the results speak. BoardVitals made studying for boards painless and effective.
Dr. Cho
Internal Medicine Yale University School of Medicine
I absolutely love BoardVitals. It's ideal for board test prep and recommend it for anyone who is preparing for their exams.
Lorcan O'Tuama
MD
I have found BoardVitals to be the single most useful resource in preparing for the Radiology Core exam. In their database, there are over 1000 questions drawn from every section of the Core exam, including Physics, with answers and appropriate references. To-date, it is the most complete and realistic simulation of the Core exam that I've been able to find. I strongly recommend it as an essential exam preparation resource.
Anna M., MD
Emergency Medicine Physician
Excellent questions with thorough explanations. The question "stems" are longer & more complex than most other board review courses, as are the answer choices. I think that this forces me to be a more focused reader and is a better reflection of the type and length of question that will be on the real exam.
Dr. Thomas Lambert
President, Cardiology Specialists of Nevada
This is the only Cardiology Question Bank that pulls together content from so many sources. It's great to have such an in-depth resource for both the boards and the re-certification exams.
David S. Paige
CRTI, CST - Clinical Coordinator/Lead Program Instructor
Just so you know, we achieved a 100% pass rate on our national board examination from our last class. This was, largely in part, due to BoardVitals!

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