This is ridiculous! How are we supposed to say this exam was fairly provided when its 3 and half hours of waiting for the system to work! #passeveryone202

American Board of Surgery May you please comment on the vetting process of our proctors? Did they have a criminal background check? Are they located in our respective states? How do we know we are safe a few years down the line? American Board of Surgery

American Board of Surgery My proctor had me download a second app that my Mac identified as possible malware but the proctor told me to open it anyway. I’ve heard the same from others. Is this an issue to worry about?

Tashinga Musonza, MD American Board of Surgery Guys honestly this sounds like a class action lawsuit. Husband is a lawyer. If they got access to your personal info or computer he said it is data breach majorly. Would install antiviral software and reboot computer. Also would document everything. (Per husband.)

American Board of Surgery 10:15pm EST and still no official email to the people you expect to take an 8 hours exam tomorrow.

Watching the #VirtualQE fiasco unfold has been horrifying. American Board of Surgery had months to prepare for this or find alternative solutions. Examinees spent that time studying, often while moving cross country, in the midst of an unprecedented, incredibly stressful pandemic. (1/4)

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Thanking Dr. Buyske for resilient leadership - ABS is refunding us, investigating regarding security concerns and having verificient delete our information. Looking forward to a solution American Board of Surgery @BuyskeJ American College of Surgeons @drbeccadeal

The graduating chief residents of BIDMC Department of Surgery and Harvard Medical School have drafted an open letter to the American Board of Surgery regarding our thoughts on this year's qualifying exam and our proposed solutions. Please consider. @BuyskeJ @TaraSotskyKent Elliot Chaikof #VirtualQE

The new generation of surgeons must invoke change. High stakes standardized tests aren’t good measure of training. While its not fair to ask new grads to boycott exam, others should refuse to give the CE, refuse to write questions for QE. We need change. google.com/amp/s/www.busi…

American Board of Surgery: Grant CE Eligibility to all ABS QE 2020 Candidates - Sign the Petition! chng.it/tXCbFzg6 via Change.org

An update on #virtualQE. Please amplify RAS-ACS SAGES is in Tampa in 2026! Assoc4AcademicSurgery APDS surgery Society of Black Academic Surgeons American College of Surgeons American Board of Surgery

John Lewis, in all his force of spirit, hope, and love. A letter to all of us, a call to action. He is deeply missed. nytimes.com/2020/07/30/opi…

A long read but a good one.

Breaking News: President Trump tested positive for the coronavirus, throwing the nation’s leadership and his re-election campaign into uncertainty. nyti.ms/3l7mU6E

Translation: “Don’t let the death of your loved ones who needlessly perished from COVID19 because we couldn’t organize a national response dominate your life”. Also, “sorry cutting edge biotechnologies are available to only a privileged few, get over it”

When an adolescent psychiatrist interviews parents of Black boys, he comes away with similar narratives — a story in which normative behavior is characterized with behaviors classically associated with common diagnoses are misattributed.

At what point to we start calling these people rioters/terrorists and not protesters?

I’m just saying.