How to Study for Your PANCE: Podcast Episode 79

Podcast Episode 79: How to Study for Your PANCE Welcome to episode 79 of the Audio PANCE and PANRE PA Board Review Podcast. In this episode 35-year PA veteran and PANCE/PANRE board review expert Joe Gilboy PA-C shares his top tips on how to best prepare for the Physician Assistant National Certification Exam Special Links From Today's Episode: View the Transcript, Table of contents and Summary of Key Points Download your copy of the Free Trello Smarty PANCE NCCPA™ Blueprint Study Plan Download your FREE Smarty PANCE Interactive NCCPA™ content blueprint Smarty PANCE members can enjoy 50% off Osmosis (link in members dashboard) The Audio PANCE and PANRE Physician Assistant Board Review Podcast I hope you enjoy this free audio component to the examination portion of this site. The full board review includes over 2,000 interactive board review questions and is available to all members of Smarty PANCE. You can download and listen to past FREE episodes here, on iTunes, on Google Play Music or Stitcher Radio. Looking for all the podcast episodes? This FREE series is limited to every other episode, you can download and enjoy the complete audio series by joining The PANCE and PANRE Exam Academy + SMARTYPANCE I will be releasing new episodes every few weeks. Smarty PANCE is discounted, so sign up now. Table of Contents and Key Points from this episode: Start Preparing One Year Before Your Exam Date Consider Forming a Study Group Print out the Blueprint Jot Down Quick Notes From Memory The Simple Answer Is Usually The Correct Answer In a 51/49 Split Choose The 51% Look For The Hook! Control Your X-Factors: I.E., Don’t Add Stress Where You Don’t Need It Practice Your Questions In Tutor Mode Correct Yourself in Real-Time Only Start Timing Yourself Towards The End Only Use High-Quality Questions Do 20-25 Questions Max Per Day The Best Textbooks for PANCE Prep The Best Websites for PANCE Prep Summary and Recommendations Podcast Transcript and Timestamps If you can't see the audio player click here to listen to the full episode. 0:00 Welcome, PA, world. My name is Joe Gilboy, PA-C. I work with Stephen Pasquini with the smarty PANCE website. Today's podcast is going to be on how to prepare for the PANCE, which is a very big subject and a very important subject to a lot of you guys out there. So come on guys, let's get this game roll, and let's learn how to prepare for the PANCE. 0:33 Hello, PA podcast world. My name is Joe Gilbert. I've been a PA for about 35 years, with all my time being in the emergency room. I'm a graduate of the Duke University PA program from 1984. I started helping students prepare for the PANCE and PANRE starting in 1990. So, as you can imagine, I've had a lot of students come through my hands. The answer is greater than 10,000. I've taught in several schools here in California I teach at several schools in Nevada. I also help in Tennessee. I help in Ohio, I help in Georgia, so I am around in a lot of different places, but for today, let's get you ready to take the PANCE. So I know a lot of ways to get students prepared. So, let's start. 1:14 So, today's podcast is actually going to be on how to prepare for the PANCE. So before we get going into the very specifics, let's look at so just come some basic guidelines as a student as you're getting ready to take the PANCE. So, the first thing that we need to actually do is study! I now I know this sounds a little oxymoronic, but you'd be surprised how many students I've met along the way, do really well in PA school, you know, they do well in their grades they do well in their End of Rotation Exams, they feel like they don't need to study. This couldn't be farther from the truth. 1:44 Start Preparing One Year Before Your Exam Date So usually what I tell most students to do is start preparing for this exam literally about a year before it comes.