Why do the exam questions focus on obscure information instead of focusing on the overall conclusions of published articles?
The Exam Committee in recent years has made a concerted effort to eliminate questions that ask “in a recently published article, what was …………?”. Questions are not asked about journal articles just to “cover” the journals, but rather, questions are asked about important concepts detailed in the RDD that are elucidated by journal articles. We may actually use a reference to a commonly-known fact that any minimally qualified Diplomate should know, backed up by other references, as a test item.
