Bombed CS. How to get residency?

[OverEasy]

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I took CS a week ago and failed. I am certain that I failed since my mistakes topped just about every story I found on this forum. I think this is going to ruin my chances of getting ANY residency since I am a Caribbean student. I am looking for just about any residency right now that will take a look at someone who really had a bad day when taking CS. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how one can go about getting a residency after failing CS? I am a good student with good step scores (Step 1 & CK > 250), but I feel that I wasted all of that hard work.

 

[Scaredshizzles]

I took CS a week ago and failed. I am certain that I failed since my mistakes topped just about every story I found on this forum. I think this is going to ruin my chances of getting ANY residency since I am a Caribbean student. I am looking for just about any residency right now that will take a look at someone who really had a bad day when taking CS. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how one can go about getting a residency after failing CS? I am a good student with good step scores (Step 1 & CK > 250), but I feel that I wasted all of that hard work.

For one, you probably didn't fail. Such a big part of the test is just communication skills, so if you speak english well and aren't rude, your chances of failing are probably 2% at most.

Secondly, with your written board scores over 250, you'll have no difficulty getting into a respectable residency program even if you did fail CS. As a carribean student you probably rotated through American hospital 3rd and 4th year anyway...which means your CS performance won't matter as much as programs have others ways of evaluating your clinical competancy in an american setting.

 

[logos]

For one, you probably didn't fail. Such a big part of the test is just communication skills, so if you speak english well and aren't rude, your chances of failing are probably 2% at most.

Secondly, with your written board scores over 250, you'll have no difficulty getting into a respectable residency program even if you did fail CS. As a carribean student you probably rotated through American hospital 3rd and 4th year anyway...which means your CS performance won't matter as much as programs have others ways of evaluating your clinical competancy in an american setting.

Chances of failing as a US student is about 5%, higher for IMGs.

OP, if you are worried about failing because of the medicine, like what diagnoses you listed or tests you ordered, relax, its pretty unlikely and one failure is not the end of the world, despite failure never being easy or pleasant, you'll get through it (I did).

 

[JerseyDoc]

Chances of failing as a US student is about 5%, higher for IMGs.

The fail rate is actually the same for both US and IMGs whose primary language is English.