At the end of it all, local breweries will be serving up some great beer, and we'll have an awards ceremony to swap stories and compare scars. Your most important tool is your brain, and best asset your team. Little more than a knife, para-cord, duct tape, or a fire steel will be needed to complete the challenges. The gear requirements are small - You will mostly rely on primitive technology and woodlore. Make your own path, and set your own pace - the Brewha Bushwhack is a challenge based on points, not time.

While there are physical challenges that will test your endurance, the goal is to push the limit of the teams' diversity of skills and what can be accomplished together.

We call it a team-based adventure challenge: What you know is more important than how fast you are. The Brewha Bushwhack is not a race in the traditional sense. Your crew will navigate to hidden checkpoints along the Mulberry River valley, completing a variety of outdoor challenges along the way.īuild fire. This is also how long term FM, IM and EM PAs can sit for the PANRE without preparation and handily pass.Date: ApAssemble a team and prepare for Pack Rat’s biggest event of the year! That is what your successful career as a PA will be based upon. Instead develop functional medical knowledge for the long term. Step away from 'studying', whatever that is. Other strategies are available to encode this knowledge for the long term. The medical knowledge that you will require to be successful on PANCE is not something to binge and purge but to start hardwiring. This is where retrieval practice ( ) is important for success. The caveat as you point out is will there be deterioration of medical knowledge between now and PANCE. Others use it as an indicator of PANCE preparation and there are several studies that indicate the PACKRAT, the PAEA EORE and program home grown summative exams can all serve as predictors. Some use it as a litmus test of the effectiveness for didactic curriculum to prepare for clinical education, at least the medical knowledge portion. The motivation of programs when they provide the PACKRAT is varied. Providing it several months prior can outline weaknesses and set a schedule for improvement. In fact, I don't understand providing the PACKRAT close to graduation, the horse is already out of the barn. With 5/10 rotations to go, I would qualify that as consistent with what I stated. I read my note again and did not mention taking the PACKRAT close to graduation. Of course I will continue studying for the PANCE but I'm trying to gauge how accurate the PACKRAT is in predicting my success on the PANCE and how much time after graduation should I give myself to study the material before taking it?ġ59 is a good score partway through the year. My concern is that my PACKRAT score now won't be as good of a predictor as to whether I will pass since I'm still 6 months away from graduation. When you mentioned taking the PACKRAT 'close to graduation,' how close are you referring? I feel like I performed relatively decent only because I have had to study basically general medicine for my EOR exams thus far and the information is relatively fresh in my head. I have rotated through internal medicine, emergency medicine, family medicine, and dermatology. I am starting my rotation 5 of 10 this upcoming Monday. I scored above or = national average in every section except psych/behavioral, OBGYN/women's health, and endocrinology. Unfortunately, my program only provided 1 PACKRAT exam. I just took my PACKRAT today and scored a 159. Concerning preparation for PACKRAT, there is a content blueprint at .Īs pointed out, if your program is doing it right, they can do regression analysis across cohorts and place performance in context with current curriculum. Both the PANCE and PACKRAT are summative exams that change content every year. My limited experience is that for students whom can score at 70% or higher at 2nd PACKRAT close to graduation will have a high likelihood of passing PANCE.Īs for a formula to predict, don't bother. Next goal is to increase from first score. Hopefully your program administers a 2nd time partway through the clinical year. That is actually not that bad for end of didactic term. PACKRAT is scored out of 225 questions, so obtaining a 140 = 62%.

Request the results which also include keyword feedback to highlight what a PACKRAT taker got wrong. If your program is not releasing results to you but only providing a score then that is not helpful. Good goal is to be above national mean for your form which the results will outline. There are 2 forms used every year, current year and preceding. In those results, you will find comparison to class and national mean for the form of the exam. Your program can release the results to you from PACKRAT.

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