Anyone ever remediate??

[Backgmmn23]

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Wow I feel for anyone who has to remediate anything. At my old med school they started these crazy remediation rules where you had like a week to study for a shelf exam in whatever you failed for the year, except the score they expected you to make on the shelf exam was so high nobody was going to be able to make that score,


So basically the student would study like hell for a week, then "fail the remediation" so you basically then had to "remediate the remediation" and then go into the second part of the remediation.

Sometimes they would even go as far as saying "Only 2 students failed the remediation and YOU were one of them!" when in reality many more students failed in your class. All of this going down on your student record that you send to residency programs during your residency application process. THANK GOD I GRADUATED FROM THAT SCHOOL BEFORE THEY STARTED ALL THOSE CRAZY NEW RULES.

As for your situation, yes I agree with every one else. Just study like hell and maybe your school will show you some mercey

Hang in there! Good luck!!

 

[MonsterHospital]

I had friends who had to do summer school...sucks :-/ Hopefully your friends are supportive; I know I was. Good luck.

 

[HolySmokes]

My advice for you is to focus on passing the rest of your classes and to maybe buy Acland Anatomy DVD's to watch in your spare time.

Otherwise I would push it to the back until the year is over.

Or... uh, I've heard from a friend who knows a guy that said all of Acland is up on pirate bay. You know, if you didn't want to add onto your debt.

Also, OP, for the practical part if they're showing you pictures the Downstate website is fantastic.

 

[LeverArm]

Wow I am glad to see people are still posting on my old thread! I agree with most of you. You need to take a little time off but don't do it because it's in your pre-made schedule. Do it when you are burned out and only for a little bit. Realize that studying is who you are and not what you do. I am starting to rev up my step 1 studying and I feel like the summer remediation for anatomy has prepared with me with the right mind set. Hope to get the same kind of success as I got in the end. I will be taking it exactly on the same day 1 year after my anatomy

 

[LeverArm]

I'm having deja vu now with Step studying. Sigh... medical school is stressful (obvious but true).

 

[Ghana2016]

I remediated some first year content, including Anatomy.

It is not the end of the world. If you can learn from the experience and improve your study skills, you will be in a much better student come the start of second year.

Your goal now should be to figure out why you had trouble in the class. Don't harp on failing by 1%. Look to see what you can do to improve how you're taking in information so you're scoring comfortably in the high pass range or better instead of struggling to pass. What helped me here was increasing the numbers of passes over the material, I'd say I saw everything a minimum of 3 times between lecture an the test, ideally closer to 5.

Big picture, this won't kill you.

I'm interviewing for residencies now. I was able to trend my grades up strongly including 2 strong Step scores and lots of clinical honors. My first year grades really haven't been an issue and I'm getting interviews at some selective programs. These things will take you far and you still have plenty of time to make it happen if you're willing and able to put the effort in to figure out what wasn't working and fix it.

If you have questions, feel free to shoot me a PM.

I was wondering how residency match turned out for you. I will have to remediate anatomy over the summer and possibly neuroscience and i'm scared that I won't pass and will have to repeat 1st year.

 

[Kaustikos]

I was wondering how residency match turned out for you. I will have to remediate anatomy over the summer and possibly neuroscience and i'm scared that I won't pass and will have to repeat 1st year.

Never heard of a school letting you remediate two courses over the summer...

My school has a two strikes and you repeat the year. Two of the first years had that happen to them. Sucks for them, but it's also hilarious because this was the director talking about how much better that class was than ours.

 

[cher25]

I was wondering how residency match turned out for you. I will have to remediate anatomy over the summer and possibly neuroscience and i'm scared that I won't pass and will have to repeat 1st year.

My school allows remediation of 2 courses over the summer. We've had a few cases where students failed remediation and had to repeat the year. All of them (the ones that I know of) went on to match for residency. One girl I know who matched her top choice said that she was asked about repeating the year in some residency interviews and she explained that it took her time to adjust to the schedule and balance life, etc. etc. She said that for the most part it was a non issue because she did fine on step and fine in clinicals.

I understand your fear but all you can do right now is focus on passing the remediations. It is so doable. You've already learned most of the information, you just need to fill in the gaps. Study like your life depends on it. Hopefully it will work out in your favor.

Good luck.

 

[notbobtrustme]

man, I feel for you guys that have to remediate. I came pretty ****ing close to remediating neuroscience but I passed that class by the skin of my nutsack. Waiting for final grades to be posted was one of the worst experiences of my first year.

 

[Ghana2016]

My school allows remediation of 2 courses over the summer. We've had a few cases where students failed remediation and had to repeat the year. All of them (the ones that I know of) went on to match for residency. One girl I know who matched her top choice said that she was asked about repeating the year in some residency interviews and she explained that it took her time to adjust to the schedule and balance life, etc. etc. She said that for the most part it was a non issue because she did fine on step and fine in clinicals.

I understand your fear but all you can do right now is focus on passing the remediations. It is so doable. You've already learned most of the information, you just need to fill in the gaps. Study like your life depends on it. Hopefully it will work out in your favor.

Good luck.

Thank you so much! I know I have to study like no tomorrow this summer. I'm just glad my school even allows students to remediate two courses over the summer. And it's great to hear that I haven't ruined my chances of matching if I work even harder here on out.

 

[nowanmd]

as an attending out of med school for 17 years-I still remember anatomy.

It sucked moose c#ck- i still have nightmares

 

[Kaustikos]

man, I feel for you guys that have to remediate. I came pretty ****ing close to remediating neuroscience but I passed that class by the skin of my nutsack. Waiting for final grades to be posted was one of the worst experiences of my first year.

True story - Kid was an MS2 and almost done with the year. Was on top with board prep and planning on taking it 2 weeks after finals. Took the finals, took the boards, found out he failed a final which meant he had to remediate...

The kicker? He got his board scores back - 230. That was dismissed because he failed the final. Had to retake the final and boards...

He was asked about this soooo many times during interviews... which was funny because he'd tell them what happened and they'd just be like "Oh...well... that's backwards"

 

[notbobtrustme]

True story - Kid was an MS2 and almost done with the year. Was on top with board prep and planning on taking it 2 weeks after finals. Took the finals, took the boards, found out he failed a final which meant he had to remediate...

The kicker? He got his board scores back - 230. That was dismissed because he failed the final. Had to retake the final and boards...

He was asked about this soooo many times during interviews... which was funny because he'd tell them what happened and they'd just be like "Oh...well... that's backwards"

ugh, that's awful. I'd probably kill myself if that happens...

 

[evilbooyaa]

His step was score was dismissed because of his school grades? That doesn't seem fair to me.

I had to remediate my pharm final (since I got a 69 on the final, but passed the course). I took the NBME shelf in pharmacology, did above the minimum passing requirement, and moved on to Step 1 and MS3. If you have to remediate 1 course between MS1 and MS2, it isn't nearly as crappy in terms of timing as it is to remediate something between MS2 and MS3.

 

[umean2tellme]

I don't think you can retake Step 1 if you passed it the first time, unless it's been a long time and the score expired or something like that.

 

[Kahreek]

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[Kaustikos]

His step was score was dismissed because of his school grades? That doesn't seem fair to me.

I had to remediate my pharm final (since I got a 69 on the final, but passed the course). I took the NBME shelf in pharmacology, did above the minimum passing requirement, and moved on to Step 1 and MS3. If you have to remediate 1 course between MS1 and MS2, it isn't nearly as crappy in terms of timing as it is to remediate something between MS2 and MS3.

I agree. Especially the score he got for step 1... 👎

I don't think you can retake Step 1 if you passed it the first time, unless it's been a long time and the score expired or something like that.

The score was dismissed. Kinda like someone about to hand you a check for $1,000,000. You see the check and then him putting it back into his pocket like "Oh, nvm, you don't deserve this"

And if you're thinking it - yes, it did take THAT long for him to find out he failed that final. 👎

 

[LeverArm]

Hey everyone! I was going to wait to post once I started step 2 studying (part 3 of this awful trilogy of summers) but now that I see that people are posting I figured I'd do it now. To those that have to remediate, I empathize with you but believe me when I say it is better to overkill it (even tho residencies will never see your actual score). It will prepare you for the right mindset to do well the rest of medical school (for those that are wondering I got >230 on step 1 even though I had an awful night the night before and technical issues at the test center during the test).

The unfortunate drawback of all of this is the burn out. I realized the other day that because of summer remediation and step 1 and now 2, I have been stressed and working without breaks all throughout medical school. No wonder I am burned out and at the point of 'I just don't give a $&!#'.... BUT this is a million times better than having to have repeated all of anatomy and held back by 1 year. OMG that thought makes me nauseous still.

Trust me when I say that it is doable and to study like crazy. Avoid distractions and avoid telling those that don't need to know that you fd up. I'll keep you guys posted as the decisive year rolls around but no matter what happens, I can tell you that it was worth busting my @$$ during that remediation study time.

Good luck to all!