BoardVitals Psychiatry
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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
- Developmental processes and development through the life cycle
- Disorders usually first diagnosed in infancy, childhood, or adolescence (Neurodevelopmental disorders)
- Substance-related and addictive disorders
- Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders
- Depressive disorders
- Bipolar and related disorders
- Anxiety disorders
- Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders
- Trauma- and stressor-related disorders
- Dissociative disorders
- Somatic symptom and related disorders
- Eating disorders
- Elimination disorders
- Sleep-wake disorders
- Sexual dysfunctions
- Gender dysphoria
- Disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders
- Personality disorders
- Paraphilic disorders
- Other conditions that may be a focus of clinical attention
- Neurocognitive disorders
- Neurologic disorders
- Dimension 2 topics without a corresponding Dimension 1 topic
- Dimension 2: Physician Competencies and Mechanisms
- Neuroscience and mechanisms of disease
- Behavioral and social sciences
- Clinical aspects of psychiatric and neuropsychiatric disorders
- Diagnostic procedures
- Treatment
- Interpersonal and communication skills
- Professionalism, ethics, and the law
- Practice-based learning and improvement
- 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.
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