At what point do program directors start valuing step 2 > step 1?

[bigfootisreal]

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With the upcoming pass fail changes to step 1, when do we think program directors will begin moving away from step 1 scores as the benchmark?

 

[TakotsuboOkazaki]

My suspicion is that this change has already started happening and was part of the impetuous for the switch of scoring modality for STEP 1.

 

[Shirafune]

My PD for a competitive specialty said that he doesn't think PDs in the field are savvy enough to start considering how step 1 correlates with step 2 ck. Step 1 will still be the de facto initial sorting tool for this upcoming cycle. I think they will probably place a similar weight to step 2 ck once step 1 is p/f (i.e. first cycle to test things out).

 

[Goro]

With the upcoming pass fail changes to step 1, when do we think program directors will begin moving away from step 1 scores as the benchmark?

As soon as Step becomes PF.