I'm registered for the AHIC exam in about 8 weeks and I'm starting to question whether that's enough time. I have about 4 years of health IT experience and a background in clinical informatics, but the breadth of the exam content is intimidating. Anyone who's sat for it recently have a realistic sense of how hard it is?
From what I've gathered the exam covers clinical decision support, data standards like HL7 and FHIR, and quite a bit of governance content. I've been studying about 1.5 hours a day and I'm probably 40% through the official AMIA study materials. I scored a 68% on my first practice set of 50 questions, which worries me - I've read you really want to be hitting 75%+ consistently before you go in.
My weakest area is informatics governance, sitting around 58% on practice questions there. I've been supplementing with the AMIA body of knowledge docs but it's dense reading. Has anyone found third-party question banks that are actually representative of the real exam?
Governance is about 20-25% of the exam from what I could tell. Dedicate at least 2 full weeks just to that domain if it's your weak spot.
That 68% on a cold start isn't bad at all. I was at 65% three weeks out and passed with a comfortable margin. The real exam felt slightly easier than most third-party banks.
8 weeks is doable with your background. I passed on my first attempt with 6 weeks of prep at about 2 hours a day. Front-load the governance content early.