Residency Coordinators feedback regarding residency programs preparing candidates for the oral exams
What are the criteria to assess the success of an OBGYN residency program? CREOG scores, Written or Oral board pass rates, residency drop out rate, departmental income generation?
Residency programs have a vested interest in their residents passing the written OB/GYN board exam. Reason: if they have a low collective percentage pass rate by their residents, they run the risk of losing their residency program status. This can have a major impact on their ability to attract faculty, staff, physician and departmental income. Is the written board exam pass mark the correct bench mark? There are some who would argue that passing the final oral board exam is the ultimate reflection of a residency program! To this extent, an informal study was recently undertaken by Dr Schamroth FACOG to determine the extent to which residency programs prepare residents for the ‘oral’ medium of the final board exam.
E-mail questionnaires were sent to the residency coordinators of 191 OB/GYN residency programs throughout the
A total of 58 responses were received.
Question #1: Do you feel there is a need to train residents in oral exam technique?
Response: Yes = 82% yes, No = 14% (4% = no response)
Question #2: Does your program train residents on oral exam technique?
Response: Yes = 60%, No = 40%
Conclusion: Although a majority of respondents feel there is a need to assist residents train for their oral exam, a significant percentage of residency programs are not following through on this need. This conclusion could be stronger, since those programs that do not promote oral exam training may be more inclined not to respond to the poll.
Dr Schamroth is a board certified OB/GYN and Director of ExamPro, the leading authority in OB/GYN board prep.
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