I Love a Good Checklist

Need help organizing your board prep material?

Consider a visual checklist and enjoy marking off the areas you have got covered!

As always the best reference is the Content Outline of the Exam on Abret.org.

Let’s get started with Part 1:

Pre-Study Procedures (makes up 15% of the exam)

_____ACNS Guidelines: (access each via the link)

• _____ACNS Guideline 1
• _____ACNS Guideline 2
• _____ACNS Guideline 3
• _____ACNS Guideline 4
• _____ACNS Guideline 5
• _____ACNS Guideline 6
• _____ACNS Guideline 7

_____Cognitive limitations/developmental delay 

_____Common medications

_____Common treatments 

_____Medical/EEG terminology

_____Related diagnostic procedures – Neuroimaging

• _____MRI
• _____CT scan
• _____SPECT
• _____fMRI) 

_____Neuroanatomy/Neurophysiology

_____Neurological disorders 

_____Neuropathology 

• _____tumors
• _____encephalopathy
• _____vascular 
• _____Seizures 
• _____classification
• _____clinical manifestations
• _____syndromes, etc. 

_____Head trauma, traumatic brain injury, skull defects and malformations 

_____Psychiatric disorders 

_____Skin integrity

_____Basic cardiac rhythms and rhythms associated with EEG changes

_____Basic principles of electricity and electronics

Access the links/Review/Repeat

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Resources:

• Johns Hopkins Medicine
• ABRET
• BrainFacts.org
• ASET
• Epilepsy Foundation

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