Step I COMLEX I scores for diff. residencies

[Aloha Kid]

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In general what would you say a good COMLEX I score would be for the various types of residencies there are.

Here's what I've been hearing.

For DO residencies and some MD residencies
Family, psych - just pass
OB, IM, Peds - Above 530
Gen Surg - above 560
Surgical tracts - most above 600
Anesthesiology - above 600
Rads - above 620
Derm - above 630

Any corrections?

 

[DrQuinn]

Originally posted by Aloha Kid
In general what would you say a good COMLEX I score would be for the various types of residencies there are.

Here's what I've been hearing.

For DO residencies and some MD residencies
Derm - above 630

Any corrections?

HAHAHAHAHAHHA For Derm you'll need a score of 2,000,000.

Q, DO

 

[Izzy300]

How about for emergency med?

 

[Molly Maquire]

Where did you get these numbers from?

For allopathic RADS, the COMLEX is irrelevant. You need the USMLE.

 

[UNEOSTEO]

One of our grads did his Rad residency @ Albany Med (allopathic program) and is now doing his interventional rad fellowship @ Yale-New Haven AND ONLY TOOK THE COMLEX......of course, not the norm but it's not impossible either.

 

[DOtobe]

I was under the impression that IM and Peds also qualified under the "just pass" category. I may be wrong though.

 

[zorro21]

i am sure that there are other factors other than just comlex scores. it also depends on who you know too....

 

[Blade28]

Originally posted by Aloha Kid
In general what would you say a good COMLEX I score would be for the various types of residencies there are.

Here's what I've been hearing.

For DO residencies and some MD residencies
Family, psych - just pass
OB, IM, Peds - Above 530
Gen Surg - above 560
Surgical tracts - most above 600
Anesthesiology - above 600
Rads - above 620
Derm - above 630

Any corrections?

You looking at the hospitals here in Hawaii, or on the mainland?

 

[DOtobe]

Bumping to see if anybody else has any input...