This post has a very braggy shamelessly self-promotional part. So allow me to get that out of the way first. In October 2017 I took the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) recertification exam. It’s a day-long multiple-choice test that covers the entire breadth of internal medicine and is done under the watchful eyes of proctors who make sure we only had access to the information between our ears. I had studied for dozens of hours over the preceding months. I did well. How well? I’m s...