Why Invest in CME4Life’s Alternative PANRE Study Guide?

I’m really excited about the resource that we just produced to help you study for the alternative PANRE. Now, if you’re taking the pilot alternative PANRE, you know that starting in Q1 of 2019, you’re going to get 25 questions emailed to you per quarter for two years.

So ultimately, you have to be studying pretty consistently for two years straight. We don’t know exactly what to expect. That has everybody a little bit on their heels going, “Hey, what should I be preparing for?”

Well, the NCCPA came out with a battle plan, a blueprint if you will. They talked about what diseases we have to know. What fascinates me is they now say you don’t need to know everything. Instead, you need to know them in levels. Where level one means identifying a disease based on signs, symptoms or risk factors, and getting help immediately. Quite frankly, that makes tremendous sense to me. If you have someone in cardiogenic shock, you shouldn’t try to manage it as a PA, you should go get a supervising doc. That’s what we do. You should get a consultant to help you manage this life-threatening pathology. With something like a thoracic dissection or prinzmetal, we better find somebody to come help us.

Level two means identifying a disease and knowing first line diagnostic tests and treatments. Like a pulmonary embolism, we have to know that we put them in anticoagulation or a tension in the thorax and we have to know that we do a decompression. Then level three means we need to know pretty much everything. Those are diseases like GERD, cellulitis or atrial fibrillation.

Now, at CME4Life, we’ve color coded them, because I’m a visual person. I like to see things in colors and my mind wraps around that easier. At board review courses, that’s what a lot of my colleagues embrace as well. Calling the new PANRE blueprint level one, level two and level three is very left-brained and analytical. We’re going by color codes. Is it a red light, yellow light or green light? Kind of like the triage system in an emergency room.

When you are studying for your boards, you have a choice. Firstly, you can use any traditional review book. Any review book that has content that you can learn easily from is fantastic. I believe any review book is just fine.

But you have to study at the appropriate level. You have to know every disease, what level of knowledge you have to know it at and then study to that level. I’m very concerned about people over-studying. I think that’s been a really big problem in the past. An example of that would be musculoskeletal where, in studying for the PANCE or the traditional PANRE before these changes, you could easily go down a rabbit hole studying way too much rheumatology, when rheumatology only going to be about one of 10 questions.

Now, when it comes to studying for your boards, you have to know the disease states and what level that disease state is. You can download that right from the NCCPA website or download our study resource so you can study the appropriate levels.

Alternative PANRE Study Resource

Now, what we did, and I’m very excited for this, is created a complete iPANRE study resource. This is every disease you have to know for your boards, color coded so you know if it’s yellow light, red light or green light content and you can study at the appropriate level.

The thing is at CME4Life, we want to make your job super easy. We want to make it efficient and effective for you to study, so you don’t have to worry about, “Is it a yellow light, green light or red light?”

It’s the same thing with our live conferences. If you come to one of our live conferences in Orlando, Florida, you will see that we’re going to teach you to the appropriate level. You don’t have to worry about what level. You trust us to do it for you, because I’m obsessed with that. How can I make it easier for you to pass your boards and get back to clinical practice? Plus, when you buy the complete study resource, you’ll receive $100 off a live board review course.

My hope is that this explains the alternative PANRE pilot program to you in more detail, what you need to study and how you need to study. You have to be very strategic in your studies, so any review book will be fine, as long as you have the levels, or consider reviewing with our alternative PANRE study resource, which I think is fantastic and I think you’re going to love!