The faculty guide answers questions that faculty may have about the PACKRAT exam format, content, and scoring and interpretation. The newly developed faculty guide provides comprehensive information about the PACKRAT exam, including how and why it was created, and the rigorous peer review that occurs with each version. This supplemental guide offers context to the PACKRAT exam’s development, content, and objectives. As most of you know, PACKRAT is an objective, comprehensive, self-assessment tool for student and curricular evaluation. When I walked out of the testing center on the day of my PANCE, I felt that the education my classmates and I received during our didactic and clinical years, as well the additional PANCE specific training we received at Yale had served me well for the PANCE.On this special 25 th anniversary, PAEA is publishing, for the first time, the PAEA Physician Assistant Clinical Knowledge Rating and Assessment Tool Faculty Guide. Using them to study helped tremendously in not only my knowledge base but also in my ability to go through the questions in a timely manner. Although I found these questions extremely challenging, and at times even discouraging, these questions were the most similar to the type of questions I experienced on my PANCE exam. The questions in the question bank were typically long and detailed and required an in-depth understanding of the subjects being tested. The PowerPoints were brief enough to listen to in their entirety before taking the exam and really hit on the key points of each disease state without focusing too much on unnecessary details. Overall, I found the Kaplan material to be one of the most valuable study aids that I used when preparing for the PANCE. We were also given access to an online Kaplan PANCE Prep course, which contained audio-recorded condensed PowerPoints on each subject tested in the PANCE in addition to a large question bank with detailed answer explanations. How we performed on the cumulative exams in combination with our score on the second PACKRAT exam gave us a fairly solid idea of whether or not we would pass the PANCE at that moment in time. These tests included a multiple-choice exam, a written exam, and a standardized patient exam.
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Along with the PACKRAT, we also took a series of cumulative tests prior to graduation. While the first PACKRAT was an exercise that introduced us to a cumulative medical subject test, the second PACKRAT gave us an excellent idea of the areas we needed to focus on before taking the PANCE. We were given the chance to take the PACKRAT, or Physician Assistant Clinical Knowledge Rating Assessment Tool, in both the second and third year of school.
In addition to the general medical knowledge we gained during our didactic and clinical years, Yale also provided additional resources to help us prepare specifically for the PANCE. Preparing for and taking the Physician Assistant National Certification Exam (PANCE) can seem like a daunting and nerve-racking process for any new PA graduate but I can confidently say that the Yale PA Program did a great job preparing my classmates and me for this undertaking.
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