Advice Needed...

[Turtlez]

Are preclinical grades important for anesthesiology?

If out of 12 first year classes I get 4 H / 2HP / 6P , is that considered good/okay/bad?
Thanks for the help!

 

[zagazig]

Are preclinical grades important for anesthesiology?

If out of 12 first year classes I get 4 H / 2HP / 6P , is that considered good/okay/bad?
Thanks for the help!

They are important, but not as important as MS3 grades. Clinical grades during MS3 and USMLE are two of the most important factors in getting the interviews. IMO other things are such as LORs, Research, etc are secondary.

 

[Guillemot]

USMLE 1 >> Clinical grades > USMLE 2 > LOR > Pre Clinical grades > Other.

It probably goes something along those lines...

Your grades would be considered "okay." They would probably not have much of a positive or negative impact.

* This post is just based on my opinion/experience.

 

[floridaboy18]

1st and 2nd year grades don't matter at all (unless its for qualifying for AOA, which does matter). I honored one class during all of 1st and 2nd year and matched at my #1 with "you will match here if you want" emails/phone calls from my other top 3. I received interviews from 24/27 places I applied.

Failing a class does matter. Otherwise, just work hard to know the material and prepare for Step 1 (which DOES matter), and forgot about it.

For further questions about this (and other related questions) go here: http://www.nrmp.org/data/index.html

Click on the program director survey and it'll answer a lot of your questions in terms of which things are more or less important.

Are preclinical grades important for anesthesiology?

If out of 12 first year classes I get 4 H / 2HP / 6P , is that considered good/okay/bad?
Thanks for the help!

 

[Random Anesthesiologist]

There are some stickies at the top of the forum, but the Med student/ applicant info is from 2008-2009, probably needs updating.