I was predicted at a 94 and I got way lower than that. Not saying that will happen to you, but just be aware of that. OME saved my ass on many questions, I would start there at least for your weaknesses.
yeah I think i am planning to memorize the charts they give. if I can get CS and L5 sacrum questions right I Think Ill be ok
Youll pass it. No one cares about OMM so the curve will be good. Remember its really really really really hard to straight up fail a comat dude
yeah youre right. only need to be 3rd percentile or higher. should be able to at least do that.
Someone on here a while back said they really struggled with the timing of it
This was the case for me in OB also
You'll be fine. You'll feel like you failed but you'll pass.
Yeah FM was so broad! It scared the **** out of me and I felt like garbage studying for it/practice scores were absolute trash and then it ended up being one of my highest comats. Just trust what youve done up to this point and remember how good of a test taker you are (GOAT status 700+ level 1 lol)
That’s true. The test taking might be the only thing that saves my bacon on this one!
I had a question yesterday that gave me a patient with vague symptoms and a negative tuberculin test. Guess what they had? The explanation was “negative tuberculin test doesn’t mean **** and some people have real vague symptoms when they have TB.”
NBOME needs to go. STAT
Oh, sorry, that was UWorld lol
I felt really good when taking peds and was convinced I honored. Ended up being my lowest comat lol.
Agree with this. Felt like crap about it. The questions sucked, and I had been doing generally well on UWorld so felt good going in. Still honored, but barely.
Check to see if they have a visiting students page, student clerkship coordinator, or student inquiry email first. If not, then the program coordinator by default.
Yes, the program coordinators or sometimes there is a designated person for visiting students on their websites. I scheduled both of my current Sub-Is that way.
Jelly, hope to hear something on my end through VSAS next week
It was typical for me. I usually score between 106-108.
One more COMAT, two weeks away. Can't wait to be done.
Content wise, was it more like managing ABCs, toxicology, trauma or was it more like IM stuff? I have one coming up and I still can’t wrap my head around what to expect. In ED we just see bunch of random complaints from headaches to gunshot.
It was basically a mix of IM, surgery, psych, OB and peds. Mostly what is the next best step, best initial test, best diagnostic test etc. There was a decent amount of trauma and toxicology, some ACLS stuff and then psych was more like how do you handle this acute psych patient rather than diagnosis. I did the EM section of UWorld and then cumulative Anki reviews since there isn't an EM-specific deck.
Yeah this is what made it hard. The ER docs I was with wouldn't get just the "next best thing." They would put in like 5 orders at once for a certain presentation. And all 5 of those orders would be answer choices so it was hard to try and remember medicine by the book instead of what I saw practiced
Exactly! And there were a bunch of vague NBOME-style questions where I felt like I needed more information to answer the question.
It was my highest, but I had that jerk preceptor I talked about earlier who told me I was gonna be an irresponsible doc because I didn’t finish writing his million notes. Whatever else I can say about that guy, he kept pushing large numbers of ACOG Practice Bulletin/Guidelines articles at me, saying “read all these by tomorrow,” and pimping me on them. I hated it and he was a jerk, but all of those were super HY. I feel like I got more than half of the questions right because of those dang articles.
Lol well at least you got to do something. My preceptor was female, and I was barely allowed to see any patient on any given day because most patients didn't want a male in the room. I was able to pass COMAT by doing comquest Qs and self studying using Cheesy dorian.
There’s something to be said for having time to study!
I thought my IQ was dropping. I straight up got 12 points lower than my avg comat. Still boggles my mind that I studied that freaking hard to come up so short i mean literally listened to Divine 3-4x, OME 2x and Dr HY 2x plus all UW and Comquest. it stings man lol dont even want to think about it
Ugh. We take the EM COMAT as 4th years and I have no idea how I'm going to prepare for it since I don't want to keep doing Anki after step 2.
Realistically all we gotta do is pass it since ERAS will be submited by then and neither of us want EM im pretty sure. Plus simply passing comats isnt hard last time i checked lol. Idk about yall but ill be pretty much checked out hardcore senioritis after september/october
1000%. I'm basically checked out now ha.
lol I was telling someone earlier my mood feels like a post matched 4th year
Lmaooo FACTS i am too actually
I’ll add myself to this pile.
damn your babies wear clothes? Most of my peds patients, parents had them chilling in just a diaperI’ll add myself to this pile.
I was so good during my second FM rotation about studying and Anki-ing... but I’ve realized I’m really just good at questions and Anki when I’m at least moderately content with life. I absolutely suck at doing those things when I’m miserable, and peds 2 is making me miserable. I really, really hate drool and I hate auscultating through wet onesies... and my preceptor is constantly auscultating over drool and damp things and she doesn’t even clean her stethoscope in between patients.
