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By board scores do you mean Board Certification exams? Does IM hand out a score for board certification? For general surgery I just got a notification of passing. And by the time I took my Gen Surg boards I was already in my fellowship.
Or are you referring to in-training exams, which would not typically be referred to as “board scores.” If you’re referring to in-training exams, good scores are usually very important for those pursuing competitive fellowships.
At least on the surgical side, no one cares about the score for fellowship, only that you passed.
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Oh. Probably not. They will want to know your in-training exam scores from residency.
For radiology, assuming you passed all the steps, it doesn't matter at all. As long as you are licensed/can get licensed and can do the clinical work, the fellowship programs have no interest in looking for reasons to turn people away. Heck, radiology fellowship programs may or may not care if you've passed the radiology core exam.
It's going to depend on circumstances. For the competitive IM subs, they matter. They also impact the type of IM residency you get into, and that matters also. How much they matter is unclear and will vary by field and program. As mentioned, in some fields they may not matter at all. More than this becomes impossible to say.
In IM, the ITE scores cannot be released to prospective programs and can’t be used to determine promotion or admissions to fellowships.
Interesting. Technically for surgery they can’t be released to fellowships by the residency program or the ABS, but in my experience for vascular at least, the applicant is required to submit pdf copies of the score reports with fellowship applications.
There's such a wide variety of competitiveness in subspecialties (like specialties). Some are so competitive that everything matters. Some just require a pulse and a license. Look up how many open subspecialty slots were left after a given match and that will likely tell you how important any given item about yourself will be. Ultimately by the time you are applying for a subspecialty, your steps are what they are and long in the past. You apply and you match or you go practice the general specialty. You'll be paid well regardless.
Definitely forbidden in IM. The scores are only supposed to be used for “educational purposes” ie, to help the trainee realize what else to brush up on, and to help the programs identify what they need to teach better.
