Special Purpose Exam

Magical is how I would describe Dr. Dara Kass. She is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, where she also serves as the director of Equity and Inclusion for the Emergency Department.  After completing her residency at SUNY Downstate Medical School and Kings County Hospital, she served as faculty of read more…

Today’s conversation has been a long time in the making.  There is no justice I can do in this introduction to Dr. Lewis Goldfrank that would convey the impact he has had not only on me, but on the world. Dr. Goldfrank is the former chairman of the department of emergency medicine at New York read more…

Over the last few days, we’ve been working with Cleavon MD, an emergency medicine physician on the COVID-19 frontlines in New York City, to create this informative and important public service announcement. Please watch and share with all of your family and friends, especially anyone 18 to 40 years old who needs to see this! read more…

Anything said in advance of a pandemic seems alarmist. After a pandemic begins, anything one has said or done is inadequate. –Michael Leavitt, former US Secretary of Health As news surrounding the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to evolve at breakneck speed, I have watched firsthand via social media as my physician colleagues work tirelessly to read more…

I have made almost every financial mistake that new physicians should avoid, including going into forbearance and deferment, buying the doctor house and car, not living on a budget, and not prioritizing paying down student loan debt. To be clear, I had significant debt—similar to that of the average graduating medical school student in the read more…

Last year, we wrote about how we have the best customers, and it’s still true. They not only stay calm during a stressful time in their lives, but they continue to send us some of the funniest, heartfelt, and most gracious messages. We can’t keep these notes to ourselves, so here are our favorite customer read more…

Surviving years of medical training requires a certain personality type—one with a willingness to skip the party, stay home and study, work on both Saturday and Sunday, and switch from night shifts to day shifts and then back to nights without a break in between. Yet, this commitment and lifestyle might be incompatible with starting read more…

When you think of Rosh Review, what do you imagine? Emergency Medicine…Physician Assistant…OB/GYN…Family Medicine…Internal Medicine…Marine Biology… Wait, what? Marine biology? When you look through the qualifications of the Rosh Review team, you may be surprised to find a marine biologist here. We even have an ornithologist and a botanist, too! So what are these ecologists read more…

Talk of burnout among medical professionals is everywhere these days: in medical blogs, in peer-reviewed journal articles, in CME courses, in online courses, and in the news. We can’t avoid hearing about the high rates of burnout, depression, and suicide. I have experienced burnout twice in my career in medicine. The first time was in read more…

Life transitions always take some adjustment…even when they’re exciting changes. Moving, expanding your family, getting a new job—you’ll go through many revisions throughout your lifetime. Sometimes they’re planned and expected, and sometimes they’re not, but each transition requires you to get out of your comfort zone. One of my big life changes was a decision read more…

Like many of you, my background is in health care: I have my Certified Nursing Assistant and EMT certifications as well as a Doctor of Chiropractic degree. Those of us who work in medicine have a passion for science and people, which almost always means leaving home to go to work each day. When you read more…

If you’ve emailed Rosh Review for anything, from requesting CME to asking for an extension or seeking clarification about which subscription to purchase, it’s likely that you and I have spoken. I’ve handled the majority of Rosh Review’s customer support for the past three years. We operate with the mindset of equanimity, which means staying read more…

I was inspired and energized at last night’s launch of TIME’S UP Healthcare at the New York Academy of Medicine. I was there as an emergency physician who witnessed gender discrimination and sexual harassment in the workplace, as a father who wants my daughter and son to grow up in a world that treats them read more…

Just as pediatricians need to bring up uncomfortable conversations about sex to keep their patients safe and healthy, isn’t it equally the responsibility of physicians to bring up diet and nutrition?

This article covers two easy strategies to help increase your Special Purpose Exam (SPEX) score by 10%. If you are not familiar with the SPEX, here is everything you need to know.  While there is no magic pill or wand that will increase your exam score, these two techniques are useful, easy to implement, and read more…

Many of our savvy customers realize intuitively that there is a treasure trove of performance data accumulating in the background with each new question answered by each of our users (40,933,037 total questions answered, as of today).

Many of our savvy customers realize intuitively that there is a treasure trove of performance data accumulating in the background with each new question answered by each of our users (40,933,037 total questions answered, as of today).