Hi
,So as from my previous posts, you can tell that I failed the COMLEX 2 PE which I took in July and received the Fail grade report early september. Fastforward, I have been applying to Psych, IM and Neuro quite broadly and realistically and have received 9 interviews through AOA and ACGME match. I have been asked numerous times why I failed the COMLEX 2 PE when the pass rate is quite high. Most people appear to buy my reasoning at face value but one of them really made me feel terrible and thought like I was wasting his time by even attending the interview. My question is, why would a coordinator or review comittee even send you an invitation if the failing comlex 2 PE was so horrendous for them to swallow?I retook it late last month and I'm hoping for a pass. But really, how should I answer this question when I don't know the answer? I'm trying to sound honest and sincere about why I failed the humanistic portion when all of my OSCE's commended how warm and receptive I was. The only thing that I honestly didn't do was go over the plan thoroughly with them and maybe used a little too much med jargon a few times. However, I did make sure to rectify this in my retake last month.
Another question, I will not receive my score until December, I have 7 interviews lined up, should I postpone them until I get the passing score on my PE in my transcript? Or should I just attend and try to give them my version of how I failed. The assistant PD I encountered for my IM interview seemed like I was just wasting his time and did not want to hear my story. I honestly will never know why I failed this exam and I hope that someone deep down, really believes that I'm not anti-humanistic or incapable of being a good empathetic human being. I am quite shy and passive, but my evaluations always indicate that I have a good rapport with staff and patients. I have never been impolite to anyone throughout my medical career and I feel that people are not willing to look past this fail on the PE and give me an honest chance.
Going to Philadelphia in the middle of a hot summer with a 3 hour time difference, was not easy, but I refute any claim that I was impolite to the standardized patients. I feel that this was a very subjective grading scheme and I don't know if the testmakers the of the ramifications of failing people or changing scoring criteria of the comlex 2 CE will have on our academic careers.
,So as from my previous posts, you can tell that I failed the COMLEX 2 PE which I took in July and received the Fail grade report early september. Fastforward, I have been applying to Psych, IM and Neuro quite broadly and realistically and have received 9 interviews through AOA and ACGME match. I have been asked numerous times why I failed the COMLEX 2 PE when the pass rate is quite high. Most people appear to buy my reasoning at face value but one of them really made me feel terrible and thought like I was wasting his time by even attending the interview. My question is, why would a coordinator or review comittee even send you an invitation if the failing comlex 2 PE was so horrendous for them to swallow?I retook it late last month and I'm hoping for a pass. But really, how should I answer this question when I don't know the answer? I'm trying to sound honest and sincere about why I failed the humanistic portion when all of my OSCE's commended how warm and receptive I was. The only thing that I honestly didn't do was go over the plan thoroughly with them and maybe used a little too much med jargon a few times. However, I did make sure to rectify this in my retake last month.
Another question, I will not receive my score until December, I have 7 interviews lined up, should I postpone them until I get the passing score on my PE in my transcript? Or should I just attend and try to give them my version of how I failed. The assistant PD I encountered for my IM interview seemed like I was just wasting his time and did not want to hear my story. I honestly will never know why I failed this exam and I hope that someone deep down, really believes that I'm not anti-humanistic or incapable of being a good empathetic human being. I am quite shy and passive, but my evaluations always indicate that I have a good rapport with staff and patients. I have never been impolite to anyone throughout my medical career and I feel that people are not willing to look past this fail on the PE and give me an honest chance.
Going to Philadelphia in the middle of a hot summer with a 3 hour time difference, was not easy, but I refute any claim that I was impolite to the standardized patients. I feel that this was a very subjective grading scheme and I don't know if the testmakers the of the ramifications of failing people or changing scoring criteria of the comlex 2 CE will have on our academic careers.
