BoardVitals Psychiatry

This is a test question bank located on the BoardVitals platform. It includes more than 1450 Psychiatry board review practice questions with detailed explanations for both correct and incorrect responses. The Psychiatry question bank follows the exam content outline for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) Psychiatry Certification Exam and the PRITE® (in-service exam). This question bank is updated for DSM 5. Topics covered include:

• Dimension 1: Psychiatric Disorders and Topics
  1. Developmental processes and development through the life cycle
  2. Disorders usually first diagnosed in infancy, childhood, or adolescence (Neurodevelopmental disorders)
  3. Substance-related and addictive disorders
  4. Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders
  5. Depressive disorders
  6. Bipolar and related disorders
  7. Anxiety disorders
  8. Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders
  9. Trauma- and stressor-related disorders
  10. Dissociative disorders
  11. Somatic symptom and related disorders
  12. Eating disorders
  13. Elimination disorders
  14. Sleep-wake disorders
  15. Sexual dysfunctions
  16. Gender dysphoria
  17. Disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders
  18. Personality disorders
  19. Paraphilic disorders
  20. Other conditions that may be a focus of clinical attention
  21. Neurocognitive disorders
  22. Neurologic disorders
  23. Dimension 2 topics without a corresponding Dimension 1 topic
• Dimension 2: Physician Competencies and Mechanisms
  1. Neuroscience and mechanisms of disease
  2. Behavioral and social sciences
  3. Clinical aspects of psychiatric and neuropsychiatric disorders
  4. Diagnostic procedures
  5. Treatment
  6. Interpersonal and communication skills
  7. Professionalism, ethics, and the law
  8. Practice-based learning and improvement
  9. Systems-based practice

Questions are arranged in topical sections, and you may view questions by section or in a randomized way which combines all of the sections. Questions may be taken as a self-paced exam, or you may opt to view them in a timed session like the actual board exams. Question banks are regularly updated so that they are similar to the latest exams.