I have to agree that the computer photos were awful.  I was looking for
the answer that said to restain because everything was a big blur I had
a hard time identifying the tissue let alone how to answer the question.
Roberta HT/HTL 

-----Original Message-----
From: Janay Zeck [mailto:janay3@juno.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 7:07 PM
To: histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
Subject: Re: BOR exam

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought the photomicrographs were
terrible on the HTL.  (And this is some years ago now..) I had a red
fuzzy blur supposedly representing IHC ~ it would have been helpful if
the it was in focus seeing as I was asked what specific structure was
staining..  All the practical knowledge in the world doesn't help
there..

Janay Zeck, HTL (ASCP)
 
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:00:44 -0400 (EDT) Jeffrey S Crews
 writes:
> Any exam is flawed by its very nature; some things have to be left 
> out
> and others included. And some qualified people will fail simply 
> because
> of that. 
> That said, I do have a problem with the BOR exam as I took it: the
> pictures. Perhaps it was the testing facility's fault, but the 
> photos on
> the monitor were shockingly bad.
> One, that I remember as a picture of some red blurry smears on a 
> larger
> brown blurry smear, went with the  question "What would you do to 
> improve
> this stain?"
> My answer was "First, clean the damn lens," but that wasn't one of 
> the
> choices.
> 
> If I got any of the photo questions correct, I think it was by sheer 
> luck
> since none of them looked like anything.
> Okay, complaint over.
> 
> Jeffrey Crews, HTL (ASCP)
> 
> 
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