Cardiac Surgery fellowships, USMLE scores?

[Medstart108]

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I am an incoming CT resident. Do fellowships look at your scores in Step 2CK for example or do they not care at all? My guess is that they don't care since it is so far away from medical school but just want to make sure.

 

[ThoracicGuy]

I am an incoming CT resident. Do fellowships look at your scores in Step 2CK for example or do they not care at all? My guess is that they don't care since it is so far away from medical school but just want to make sure.

Surgery fellowships couldn't care less about Step scores. Inservice exams are far more important along with LOR.

 

[Buzz Me]

They look at them, but frankly it's all about the in-service.

Edit: are you a medical student already worrying about a CTS super-fellowship???

 

[CTFellowMD]

They look at them, but frankly it's all about the in-service.

Agree - they are looked at, but the in-service is fair more important. Essentially this is how the applicant evaluation process goes:

1) Great inservice scores -> gaze in the general direction of Step 2CK --> Meh, don't really care if good or bad

2) Bad inservice scores -> look at step scores ->
--2a) good step scores -> well at least they can pass a standardized test, lets look at this person in more detail
--2b) bad step scores -> yikes, stay away.

 

[dienekes88]

They look at them, but frankly it's all about the in-service.

Edit: are you a medical student already worrying about a CTS super-fellowship???

More likely a medical student who matched into an Integrated program already worried about matching congenital.