Hi. Thanks for your kind support.
The patient did come back indeed and I have taken photos and radiographs to prove their lies, but they won't look at them because they " could have been photoshopped". One more lie they added later to my report is that, after so grossly extending my prep, I requested permission for further extension !!!! They even claim they have an extension request signed by me but can't show it me because it's confidential !!!!
Their criteria are so lax that, if adhered to by the examiners, no one would fail. In fact, I used to think that you have to butcher your patient in order to fail the prep part.
The examiners, on the other hand, aren't always as lax.
3 examiners were talking to each other, as per my patient, which is a violation of their own protocol.
The reason for it could be that, because of a computer glitch earlier that morning, which grossly delayed my exam, I was the last candidate. They could have decided to abort my exam just to go home.
their appeal process is so unfair that, if you do as much as register to retake the exam, you lose your appeal!
My reaction has more to do with the way I was treated when I contacted them than with the actual results of the exam. It is one thing to be dishonest and another thing when you add rudeness and haughtiness to the mixture..
Having just completed the exam and knowing everything that is ethically and functionally wrong with it, as well as believing the exam should be done away with, your claims seem a little over the top. You don't need photos or radiographs of the prep, your patient comes back to you, you can look and measure for yourself. 3 examiners have to agree that their was a critical deficiency, it's not just one individual's opinion. They seemed to be very lenient on all of the criteria, and overall the floor examiners were all cordial and encouraging. I'm sorry that it didn't go your way, but I'm assuming there was probably a reason for it. I hope all works out for you in the end, but this seems like a pretty juvenile way to handle the situation at hand. Just accept what happened, grow from it, and move on.
