Wiki Doc Board Review Guidelines

# Overview
The Wiki Doc Board Review aims to help  test takers towards their exam preparation. On this section the user can access several Board Review Questions at different levels. They include USMLE STEP 1, USMLE STEP 2 Clinical Knowledge (CK), USMLE STEP 3, MCAT and BOARD Certification.
These Wikidoc Board Review Guidelines (WBR Guidelines) are geared towards the editors who want to create and add questions contributing to the WBR Questions Pool.

# Adding questions in 12 STEPS, it's that easy!
Steps to add a question:
- Go to / and click on Board Review on the Upper Right of the Encyclopedia 
- Click on the Click Here to Add Questions button. It will redirect you to :FormEdit/WBRQuestion/WBR
- Type in your name in the Author Box
- Select the Exam Type
- Type the Stem into the Question Box
- Introduce an Overall Explanation into the Box focusing on the correct answer choice
- Type the Answer A choice
- Type the corresponding explanation for Answer A
- Repeat the last 2 steps for Answer choices B, C, D and E
- Select the correct answer choice
- Select Reviewed if all the bowes on the WBR Quality Checklist are marked
- Add an image if you would like
CONGRATULATIONS! You just created a Question!

## Adding tables

## Editing existing questions

## Other editing help
For any other editing questions, do not hesitate to contact Wiki Doc.

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# Wiki Doc Board review checklist
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# Steps to build a question stem
The goal of building these questions is to recreate a Board Scenario that serves both to:
- Develop test-taking strategies by managing time correctly
- Test high yield knowledge in a typical Board presentation
The Steps to build a question stem are the following:
- Read and understand the tested material to grasp the basic principles, diagnosis, management and therapeutics according to the BOARD level.
- Be familiar with the format, content and high Yield material frequently asked. Try to take many exams through the NBME website ]], the actual exam  and other Qbanks. Respect Copy Rights sources.
- Pick a specific content
- Use the WBR Checklist
- Use Wiki Doc to obtain information,links, pictures, videos, and promote their use on the explanations.

## Do not give away the answer
Challenge the test taker! Avoid using proper or specific signs. Describe signs and symptoms in simple terms to give the hints without giving away the answer. Example:  marfanoid use instead: long extremities, skinny, tall. Do not ask negatively. Example "which of the following is incorrect, not correct or false".

## Stem length
- Long stems: Are extremely helpful! They create a challenge for the test taker who has to read quickly, yet carefully to pick up the important info.
- Short and moderate stems: Test specific facts. It is useful to add pictures/videos/sounds/tables/graph.

## Multi-step questions
Test the process, not the content including 2 ot 3 Step questions.

### Process
- Symptoms or clinical presentation
- Physical exam findings
- Laboratory findings
- Diagnosis
- Treatment of Choice
- Mechanism of action of treatment of choice
- Most common adverse effect
Micro questions require the reader to make a diagnosis, know the correct drug and then the mechanism of action of the drug (3 steps). 
An equally difficult but less elegant question would ask what HLA-subtype is associated with some rare rheumatological disease.

## Sequential item questions
The format remains the same as above, but it tests two or three different concepts on separate questions having the same clinical vignette.

## Matching sets
The question begins with answer options followed by multiple questions. The answers to these questions are in the options at the beginning.

# Answer explanations

## Overall explanation
Connect all the puzzle pieces.
Explain the pertinent positive findings (symptoms, signs) as a clinician, not just list the topic. (i.e.  the patient has ... which is a typical presentation of...).
Also explain the negative pertinent.
Justify why that choice is correct.
Only ONE answer is the best or the most appropriate one.

## Answer choice explanation
- Include concise, yet thorough explanation providing a high yield chunk of info.
- Concisely explain the right answer.
- Add info missing on the overall explanation to the right answer choice and explain the wrong choices and why they are not correct.
- Explain the wrong choices

## Educational objective
- Include short high yield fact at the end of the explanation (1 or 2 take-home sentences/phrases)