Love this 🥰🥰 and so so happy for you!!! I do wish I had more anecdotes available when I applied. Would just see 250 scorers everywhere and wonder if I would even match!!! Amazing
How did you do on your COMLEX exams? Your Steps aren't stellar but they're not abysmal either.....so something must be explaining your drought. Poor LORs? Any preclinical red flags?
No no. That wouldn’t make nbme more money.
that's CS lol
Standardized exams getting “harder” isn’t really a thing. It’s completely moot in a percentile world.
I think you need a letter from the PD. Step 3 doesn’t require that so you can take it between graduation and residency start date
n= 1 but the PD I rotated with didn’t know how to look up the percentiles
I thought PDs get the score reports? If so it has the score in big bold letters and then the bar graph with the distribution of the test taker so I thought they viewed both
My point is that it doesn’t matter if a standardized exam becomes “harder” because everyone takes essentially equal tests
but then the amount of effort to get the same score goes up.
I know nurses who have been at academic hospitals for 20 years that don't know how that works and don't know that residents take call etc. They think they are just off after 40 hours hahaha.
I can’t tell you how often I’ve explained this to my parents. My mom was worried a couple weeks ago because I haven’t been accepted anywhere and I just don’t have the energy to keep explaining that it doesn’t work like that.
"So did they offer you the job?"
I applied to 100+ programs w a surgical subspecialty and got 30+ interviews...n someone I know told me that is it? 🥺 then another went on and said he only applied to one position and got the job...I don’t need anyone to rub salt into my wound...this is stressful enough 😭
Ortho?
Tell me you arent actually DOING 30+ IIs though???
Wait people are ankiing for step 3 already wutttt
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I took Step 2 4 months after Step 1. It was nice to still have that Step 1 knowledge all fresh in my mind. It helped a lot....maybe even more for Level 2 because the latter had a bunch of micro on it.
My point was more to put scope creep into perspective. As in, when they say they can do everything we can do, it comes from a place of ignorance as they don't even care to know what our training entails, let alone what we actually know and can do.
I wasn't aware there are rules.....I actually hadn't heard a thing about PE since it was announced it would resume April 1st.
yeah ignoring the PE problems, normally to take level 3 you used to have to be submitted as eligible by your residency, but then they added a mechanism for the school to petition for you if you were an unmatched grad without a program trying to take it to enhance your app.
If you graduate in May and start residency in July, maybe you can knock it out in the weeks in between? Like buy your Step 3 uworld during the last months of coasting through MS4, take the test in June, and start residency without having to care about it
I plan to take mine early because of CS...virtual CS...really? 🤦♀️
Nope, no red flags. I had my school review my app late in December and they said everything was good.
I'm thinking it was either my PS or LOR. No clinical or preclinical flags at all. My comlexs were average
Wait, what about the military match was panicky?
Panicky in what way? It seemed to go fine?
I recently signed a virtual interview agreement that specified that if I presumably match there I still need to complete Step 2CS once it comes back—so I’m beginning to wonder if this is the plan for more residencies.
