When you have 45–60 minutes
Full-Length Oral Exam
Integrate your reasoning across a developing Main Case, its exam-style Grab Bag section, and complete-exam feedback.
The modern platform for anesthesia oral board exam prep
A better way to prepare for your oral boards.
Practice in three live formats with a responsive examiner, selectable voices and styles, and feedback grounded in your answers. Outside of practice sessions, listen to clinically reviewed examiner-and-candidate conversations in the private Oral Board Listening Library, either in our app or through a private podcast feed.
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Responsive live examination
The examiner responds to your prior answer and presses for a safe, prioritized preoperative plan.
Built around the SOE structure
Recognizable sessions, cases, and question flow.
A responsive examiner
Natural pacing, relevant follow-up, and focused questioning.
Active practice and passive study
Answer an examiner or listen to complete simulated conversations.
Made for real-world use
Noise suppression, session recovery, and ongoing improvements.
Three ways to practice out loud
Choose the practice mode you need today: take a complete Full-Length Oral Exam, work through a developing Main Case from stem review to feedback in a shorter window with a Short Oral Exam, or sharpen your speaking cadence with Question Drills.
When you have 20–30 minutes
Short Oral Exam
Work through a coherent developing Main Case from stem review to feedback in a shorter window, without a Grab Bag section.
When you have a few minutes
Question Drills
Practice one clinical decision or explanation with response-aware follow-up and immediate feedback.
Oral Board Listening Library
Hear what strong oral-board performance sounds like.
Listen to clinically reviewed simulated sessions that model strong, coherent ways to organize an answer, explain a decision, and respond as the examiner changes the scenario.
8 recordings and growing. Every new recording added during your access is included.
Hear the structure
Follow a strong candidate as they state a decision, explain the reasoning, and adapt when the examiner changes the case.
Make use of spare moments
Keep preparing on a commute, walk, or post-call reset when speaking aloud is not practical.
Save practice time for your answers
Listening never uses practice time, so your live-practice balance stays available for active speaking and feedback.
Get 18 months of full access for $39, add it to Targeted or Monthly, or receive it at no extra cost with Comprehensive Practice.
Audio session
A strong candidate under pressure
Full-Length Oral ExamsShort Oral ExamsQuestion Drills
What to listen for
Prioritization, concise reasoning, and adaptation as clinical information changes.
Access it your way
Use the Listen library in your browser or a private podcast feed in the podcast app you use.
Question Drills
Turn spare minutes into Question Drills.
Build the habit of answering aloud without waiting for a complete case or a scheduled mock. Each question stands on its own rather than entering a Full-Length Oral Exam or Short Oral Exam.
One focused task
Drill a clinical decision, explanation, or mechanism without entering a longer case.
Follow-up that listens
Focused clarification or rationale questions respond to the substance of your answer.
Feedback while it is fresh
Review feedback on the answer you just gave, then move to another question.
One answer changes the next question.
Question Drills give you one clinical decision to explain aloud. The examiner listens to your reasoning and uses focused follow-up when your answer needs clarification or the conditions change.
A few minutes, used well
Practice one complete clinical decision or explanation without entering a longer case.
Reasoning changes the exchange
The next question responds to the substance of your answer instead of following a fixed script.
A clear next improvement
End with focused feedback tied to the response you just gave.
One answer changes the next question
The candidate says elective surgery should be delayed. The examiner immediately changes the decision: what if the operation is urgent and cannot safely be deferred?
One complete Full-Length Oral Exam, from stem to feedback.
The 35-minute Full-Length Oral Exam is the core realistic practice experience: a developing Main Case followed by the exam-style Grab Bag section, with one feedback packet grounded in the complete exam.
Prepare
Review the stem
Take the time you need to organize the case before live questioning begins.
Main Case · about 25 minutes
Work through a developing case
Prioritize, explain your rationale, and adapt as the clinical situation changes.
Grab Bag · about 10 minutes
Shift across additional topics
Answer several unrelated short scenarios without advance stems.
Review
Receive session feedback
See scores that track your progress over time, plus strengths, gaps, safety concerns, and clear priorities tied to what you said.
A developing main case
Questions build on your earlier decisions and changing clinical information instead of resetting to isolated prompts.
Management and knowledge together
Practice prioritization, physiology, rationale, and safety in the same connected examination.
Professional pressure without coaching
The examiner expects a clear plan and does not correct you during live questioning.
ADAPT EXAM SETTINGS TO YOUR GOALS
Practice the questions you hope they do not ask.
Choose an examiner voice, add High Pressure, and focus case selection on the subspecialties you need to strengthen. High Pressure changes the examiner's demeanor, not your questions or feedback, so practice gets harder without changing the standard.
- Choose from nine examiner profiles with distinct voices, personalities, ages, and genders
- Focus case selection on your priority subspecialties
- Choose a regular or High Pressure examiner style
- Keep the same questions and feedback in either style
Practice settings
Your preferred case mix and examiner style become the defaults for new practice.
Feedback after every practice session
Each session ends with response-linked feedback and practice scoring, so you can sharpen the next answer and track meaningful progress over time.
Feedback at every scope
Get focused feedback after a drill and broader pattern-level feedback after longer practice.
Traceable to your responses
Connect each strength, gap, and correction to what you actually said.
Scores and clear priorities
Use practice scores and saved feedback to follow your progress over time, while seeing the strengths, gaps, and answer structure to work on next.
Immediate Question Drill feedback
One response and its focused follow-up become clear strengths, gaps, and a stronger answer structure.
Built for practice you can return to
Candidates have completed hundreds of spoken sessions and answered thousands of examiner questions. A growing library of Full-Length and Short Oral Exams, Question Drills, and Grab Bag scenarios gives you room to return, repeat, and strengthen the answers that need more work.
Choose the plan that fits your plans
Every practice plan includes the same responsive examiner, three live practice formats, and response-linked feedback. Add the Oral Board Listening Library, choose it separately, or receive it at no extra cost with Comprehensive.
Focused practice
Targeted Practice
$179once
Focused repetition and refinement without the largest upfront commitment.
One possible mix
6 Full-Length Oral Exams + 6.5 hours for Short Oral Exams or Question Drills
Includes 10 hours of spoken practice, used in any combination of practice modes.
- 10 practice hours
- All three practice formats
- Expert feedback and practice scoring on every live format
- Oral Board Listening Library available as a $39 add-on
- Examiner voice selection and optional High Pressure
Practice + listen
Comprehensive Practice
$349once
More live-practice capacity, full access to the Oral Board Listening Library, and a pass guarantee.
One possible mix
12 Full-Length Oral Exams + 13 hours for Short Oral Exams or Question Drills
Includes 20 hours of spoken practice, used in any combination of practice modes.
Everything in Targeted Practice, plus:
- 2× practice hours (20 hours total)
- Free bonus: full Oral Board Listening Library access
- Pass guarantee
Lower commitment
Monthly Practice
$39per month
Spread out cost and practice while you learn how much preparation you want.
One possible mix
3 Full-Length Oral Exams + 1 hour 15 minutes for Short Oral Exams or Question Drills
Includes 3 hours of spoken practice each month, used in any combination of practice modes.
- 3 new practice hours each paid month
- Unlimited rollover while subscribed
- All three practice formats
- Oral Board Listening Library available as a $39 one-time add-on
- Cancel anytime from account settings
How practice time works
When you start a practice session, we reserve the full amount of time assigned to that format from your Practice Hours. If you finish early, any unused time is returned to your balance. If you leave before completing the session, the remaining time stays reserved for that session so you can return and continue later.
Listen without a practice plan
Oral Board Listening Library
Want the Oral Board Listening Library without a live practice plan? Buy it on its own for $39 and get 18 months of clinically reviewed simulated conversations, new episodes, and a private podcast feed. If you choose Targeted or Comprehensive within 30 days, we'll apply that full $39 toward your plan.
$39 once
Get listening accessFrequently asked questions
Can I try the examiner before choosing a plan?+
Yes. Start with a free practice session, with no credit card required. Every paid practice plan includes the same examiner quality, practice formats, and response-linked feedback; plans differ in practice time, access period, and payment structure. The Oral Board Listening Library may be purchased separately or added to Targeted or Monthly, and it is included at no extra cost with Comprehensive.
What makes this more than a voice chatbot?+
The examiner follows a coherent case, listens and responds to your reasoning, supports natural clarification and interruption, and carries the experience through response-linked feedback and future practice.
How does this fit alongside faculty or peer mock exams?+
Human mocks remain valuable for high-touch perspective. On-Call Board Prep gives you an available, repeatable way to practice speaking between them, work on difficult areas, and arrive better prepared for that limited time.
How flexible is practice time if I change formats, repeat, or get interrupted?+
Use your balance across all three practice formats and repeat difficult material whenever it helps. Starting any practice mode applies enough practice time for its estimated length. Finish sooner and unused time returns to your balance; leave early and the full amount stays with the session, ready for you to resume without using more.
What is the Oral Board Listening Library, and how can I access it?+
The Oral Board Listening Library contains clinically reviewed simulated examiner-and-Candidate conversations that demonstrate one strong, coherent approach. Full access costs $39 once for 18 months, may be added to Targeted or Monthly at Checkout, and is included at no extra cost with Comprehensive. New episodes added during your access period are included. If you buy listening access before any paid practice plan, the full $39 is available as a credit toward Targeted or Comprehensive for 30 days. Listening does not use practice time and is not personalized feedback on your own performance.
How does the Comprehensive Pass Guarantee work?+
This is purchase protection, not a prediction of your exam result. For eligible Comprehensive Practice purchases made directly from ON CALL LABS LLC on or after July 30, 2026, complete at least 10 hours of active practice time before the exam and provide official documentation that you did not pass the ABA APPLIED Exam's Standardized Oral Examination. We will refund the amount you paid and provide one complimentary Comprehensive access period for your next attempt, including 20 hours of practice time and full access to the Oral Board Listening Library. Claims must be submitted within 90 days of the official result notice, and the guarantee may be used once per person.
Is this affiliated with the ABA?+
No. On-Call Board Prep is independent preparation software built around the SOE structure. It does not provide an ABA score or pass prediction.