- Joined
- Mar 24, 2013
- Messages
- 920
- Reaction score
- 300
Last edited:
I think it's fairly obvious that you're in trouble. You've got a number of red flags and I think you may have misinterpreted the match outcome stats. COITM will show match probabilities based on certain stats, but only in isolation.
There's a chance you may pick up some interviews as time goes along, but now is definitely a time to be concerned. The real question is what to do about it. If it were me, I would start meeting with my mentors and see if they could help me and make some calls on my behalf to programs where I might have a shot. You may also want to consider interviewing for some prelim positions or lining up a research year. I would be proactive about doing something though.
My spidey sense seeing this sort of pattern is that this is someone who consistently puts forth a lackluster effort, does the bare minimum required, etc. Obviously this may be inaccurate, but it would be very easy to pass on this application in favor of others that have hit all the right notes.
My home program sent out interview invites the week of thanksgiving last year and haven't sent them yet for this year. If your home program or aways haven't sent out invites yet, that might be why your adviser is telling you to be patient.I spoke to my adviser and a bunch of other people and they keep telling me to be patient till end of November etc... and that it's still too early. It's November and I don't understand how it would still be too early.
My home program sent out interview invites the week of thanksgiving last year and haven't sent them yet for this year. If your home program or aways haven't sent out invites yet, that might be why your adviser is telling you to be patient.
Then you should probably wait until Thanksgiving.Yeah none of them have. Everyone is telling me to wait till thanksgiving.
In my experience, if they know you want to go into the field, work hard, and bee cool, you get honors. They know a high pass is actually not that good, esp as theres no shelf usually, it means thanks but no thanks, and other programs can see that.Sheesh. Are High Passes really so detrimental to competitive fields like Ortho?
I'm an M1 and I'm shooting for HP's in all of my classes right now, and even that seems like a stretch of my efforts. So many people are just shooting for passing. The ones Honoring seem to all have prior experience with these classes. They all seem to be former med masters and adjunct professors.
HP in clinical rotations, particularly in your desired field. Very different than pre-clinical courses.
Also as mentioned the Sub-I HP. That's a big hurt.
Way i see it, its a warning flag to other schools that this person isnt great to work with. Let regular third year classes w shelf exams filter out the honors from hp and p.So isn't that inferring that most ortho candidates honor their sub-Is? It seems like a lot of schools and places just hand out honors to so many people. If more than not honor, then it seems like the expectations should be changed so that getting honors in it is actually atypical (which is the whole point of honors in my mind)
Sheesh. Are High Passes really so detrimental to competitive fields like Ortho?
I'm an M1 and I'm shooting for HP's in all of my classes right now, and even that seems like a stretch of my efforts. So many people are just shooting for passing. The ones Honoring seem to all have prior experience with these classes. They all seem to be former med masters and adjunct professors.
Way i see it, its a warning flag to other schools that this person isnt great to work with. Let regular third year classes w shelf exams filter out the honors from hp and p.
not all schools do HP though
YesIn the clinical years?
For any confused underclassmen reading this, I'm guessing you honored your Ortho sub-i's though, right?I received 1 Pass and 6 High passes during 3rd year and I have 4 ortho interviews so far. So it is possible to get interviews without a bunch of honors grades. I hope you pick up some interviews in the next couple of weeks.
Sent from my SM-G920V using Tapatalk
I actually haven't received grades for all of them yet, but I know I have honored a couple of them.For any confused underclassmen reading this, I'm guessing you honored your Ortho sub-i's though, right?
I actually haven't received grades for all of them yet, but I know I have honored a couple of them.
I did 4A couple of your sub-is? How many did you do?
How high was your step 1, like 240s+? If so, you're in much better position than OP and is why you're sitting with 4 interviews.I did 4
What are these schools you guys go to where a "lackluster" performance/effort earns you a HP?
I mean, ****, the clerkship directors (at my school at least) have been very transparent that all evaluators are instructed that "pass" should be the most common grade they assign to students.[/QUOTE]
Yeah my step 1 is above the charting outcomes average, so that most likely has helped me. There is still a possibility that the OP will get interviews and match, people do each year.How high was your step 1, like 240s+? If so, you're in much better position than OP and is why you're sitting with 4 interviews.
Yeah my step 1 is above the charting outcomes average, so that most likely has helped me. There is still a possibility that the OP will get interviews and match, people do each year.
My school grades similarly during 3rd year so I understand how it feels to work really hard get good shelf scores and still end up with HP. I hope some places give you a chance to interview and you end up making it.Hey man! It makes me happy to know that you have 4 interviews. Good work man you deserve it. Unfortunately my step 1 score is >5 points below the 2014 charting outcomes even though I was averaging 250s on my practice Step 1 (so that sucked). On Step 2 though I performed higher than the Ortho average (> 252). It's unfortunate that I have 0 interviews but I guess I'm getting what I deserved. This sucks big time. On all my Sub I's including the one in which I received a high pass I worked 100-120 hours a week and never complained so it's a little heart breaking to know I'm sitting at 0 interviews and don't even have 1.
For everyone else, at my school it's kind of difficult to get High Pass. Top 10 % get Honors, 11-50 % get High Pass and bottom 50 % get Pass.
A lot of times during 3rd year I was in that 10-20 % bracket that got High Pass. The same goes for my home institute Ortho Sub-I.
While I agree that my performance with just a bunch of high pass was a failure on my part it wasn't due to me being lackluster or not putting in the effort. I just failed or didn't deliver enough when I needed to succeed and I'll have to deal with that for the rest of my life.
So my school is apparently VERY different from almost all of your schools for clinical years. Where I'm at our clinical grades are based 100% on you shelf exam and preceptor notes are just included as part of the MSPE. To honor you have to be in a certain percentile or higher nationally (I can't remember the bottom cutoff, but it is something like 80th percentile). How would this be considered/looked at for any field? Anyone else ever heard of this?
That's easier because then you just have to do good on shelf. Don't have to worry about impressing anyone as long as you don't make bad impressionSo my school is apparently VERY different from almost all of your schools for clinical years. Where I'm at our clinical grades are based 100% on you shelf exam and preceptor notes are just included as part of the MSPE. To honor you have to be in a certain percentile or higher nationally (I can't remember the bottom cutoff, but it is something like 80th percentile). How would this be considered/looked at for any field? Anyone else ever heard of this?
Who? I can only think of one school
So my school is apparently VERY different from almost all of your schools for clinical years. Where I'm at our clinical grades are based 100% on you shelf exam and preceptor notes are just included as part of the MSPE. To honor you have to be in a certain percentile or higher nationally (I can't remember the bottom cutoff, but it is something like 80th percentile). How would this be considered/looked at for any field? Anyone else ever heard of this?
What are these schools you guys go to where a "lackluster" performance/effort earns you a HP?
I mean, ****, the clerkship directors (at my school at least) have been very transparent that all evaluators are instructed that "pass" should be the most common grade they assign to us students.
I don't think that's very common. especially the schools that have HP, where it seems like you have to really screw up to not get HP at least
What are these schools you guys go to where a "lackluster" performance/effort earns you a HP?
I mean, ****, the clerkship directors (at my school at least) have been very transparent that all evaluators are instructed that "pass" should be the most common grade they assign to us students.
Not that it matters since we have P/F here, but at least your evaluators are somewhat standardized.. Some attendings here give everyone 10/10 on everything just to be nice. Others give everyone 5-6/10 because they think a 10/10 is only for residents. So basically some people get screwed no matter how hard they work or how good they are.
I've heard of it. Your school will include the rubric in your mspe but it's doubtful many people will scrutinize it closely. Your clinical grades will likely be viewed just like anyone else's, so make sure you dedicate adequate time and energy to shelf prep.
Remember that the big thing we all fixated on with the OP was his subi grade, a rotation in his own field and for which there is not a shelf exam at all.
I didn't realize that there weren't shelf exams for certain sub-i's. Makes me curious as to how a student at my school would be graded for a rotation in one of those areas...
I didn't know any did...unless you retook a shelf from 3rd year.Which sub-Is have a shelf exam?
Which sub-Is have a shelf exam?
medicine. and its not pretty.Which sub-Is have a shelf exam?
medicine. and its not pretty.