,Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,*,MCCQE Part 2:A Residents View,Dr.Aaron Aggarwal,PGY6,Clinical Fellow,Queens University,Who Is This Clown?,RCPSC Internal Medicine specialist,Clinical Fellow in Sleep Medicine,Wrote my MCCQE Part 2 while training at Memorial University in 2006,Marker for the MCCQE the past 2 years,Made changes to help with consistency,accuracy and expectations,Why Should I Care?,Queens trainees have been steadily declining in performance over the last 4 years (the worst in the country last year),Questions are more difficult and complex,Markers have higher expectations,Residents are trained less and are less experienced than before,Some Of My Ideas/Memories,Much of the exam is Internal Medicine based so those residents have slight advantage with respect to studying,But the other stuff is much more long forgotten,Should try to study amongst specialties,Basic Tips-OSCEs,You need to practice in an OSCE format,Say what you are doing,Explain why you are doing things,Let the examiners know what your thought process is and/or differential diagnoses,Be thorough in your evaluation,Dont forget about the touchy-feely stuff,Basic Tips-Written,Ensure that you read the question,Ensure that you read the instructions!,They mean what they say,First answer on the line vs.many lines available,Be as specific as possible with answers,