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Step II CS Score Cancellation
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you probably didn't fail, i dont think theres a way once u take it its not like the mcat. gunna be a long 2 months but in the end more than likely you'll have passed (given you didnt like pull your junk out or something or curse at an SP).
I was so anxious for my first case that I couldn't get through even half of the checklist. The rest were better, however, I did pretty poor data gathering on several cases. Poor support for my diagnoses on several of the the written notes. Forgot to ask very important ROS questions in two cases. There was one case where my closure ended with mention of major surgery with the patient's shocked face, and then time was called.
With the new standards, and based on the SDN posters who have said they failed and felt they did well, I'm quite sure that I failed.
I talked with my school and there is no way to cancel the score reporting, which I'm not too surprised about, and I think is fair.
I will just have to live with the consequences.
Thank you for your replies, both of you.
With the new standards, and based on the SDN posters who have said they failed and felt they did well, I'm quite sure that I failed.
I talked with my school and there is no way to cancel the score reporting, which I'm not too surprised about, and I think is fair.
I will just have to live with the consequences.
Thank you for your replies, both of you.
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relax....everybody feels like they failed after coming out of the exam....check my past posts for some reassurance.
dude relax. Even I thought I didn't do well after the exam. its grueling. I passed comfortably and with an asterix( off the charts) on two of the 3 sections.
To justify here are all the things I did wrong:
- first case of severe head ache. SP complained that I was grinding my crotch against his knee on examining his head. Shocked I appologized profusely and then stammered about how hard it is to examine patients sometimes.
-totally vague case of unintentional wt loss as the only symptom. Lost in the wind I say we need to check for cancer as my first differential. Then looking at his shocked face, I tell him I don't really think its cancer but lets check. Time called and that was the end of the case.
-Case of lower back pain( last case of the day): asked about where the pain was. Lightly palpated the area and that was the end of my physical exam for him. didnt ask him to walk. didnt do a leg raise test. didnt even ask him to stand.
And also most of my cases I ran out of time so my counseling as well as plan for workup was usually incomplete.
on justifications for ddx or test I usually just wrote the same line or one word for all of them.... like cxr culture wbc count would all be justified by one word of cough. All my justifications were weak sauce... there is not much time to write detailed reasons for everything and most overlap anyways.
I am not lying at all. This is just the stuff I realized I did wrong, god knows what else was wrong that I didn't pick up on. Keep calm and know that you are not the first person to feel this way.
To justify here are all the things I did wrong:
- first case of severe head ache. SP complained that I was grinding my crotch against his knee on examining his head. Shocked I appologized profusely and then stammered about how hard it is to examine patients sometimes.
-totally vague case of unintentional wt loss as the only symptom. Lost in the wind I say we need to check for cancer as my first differential. Then looking at his shocked face, I tell him I don't really think its cancer but lets check. Time called and that was the end of the case.
-Case of lower back pain( last case of the day): asked about where the pain was. Lightly palpated the area and that was the end of my physical exam for him. didnt ask him to walk. didnt do a leg raise test. didnt even ask him to stand.
And also most of my cases I ran out of time so my counseling as well as plan for workup was usually incomplete.
on justifications for ddx or test I usually just wrote the same line or one word for all of them.... like cxr culture wbc count would all be justified by one word of cough. All my justifications were weak sauce... there is not much time to write detailed reasons for everything and most overlap anyways.
I am not lying at all. This is just the stuff I realized I did wrong, god knows what else was wrong that I didn't pick up on. Keep calm and know that you are not the first person to feel this way.
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I just wanted to post to say that I passed CS. I took the exam July 9 in Chicago. I feel like such a baby for getting so upset.
But I just wanted to post to give others who didn't get their scores today some hope.
My mistakes: I truly did do a terrible job on two cases, not asking half of the important questions and doing a very poor exam because I was anxious and pressed for time, and the SPs seemed to hate me; I ended one encounter on the word "hysterectomy" and the patient was upset; I forgot to ask about stooling on an abdominal pain case; I took a grand total of 8 minutes on a telephone case and listed one thing on my differential; I didn't list more than 3 pertinent negatives on the whole exam; and much more that I don't remember; and I still passed.
This just confirms what so many have said on SDN - it is possible to make many mistakes, feel horrible after the exam and still pass.
Good luck everyone! Thanks to the kind souls who replied to this thread when I was freaking out.
But I just wanted to post to give others who didn't get their scores today some hope.
My mistakes: I truly did do a terrible job on two cases, not asking half of the important questions and doing a very poor exam because I was anxious and pressed for time, and the SPs seemed to hate me; I ended one encounter on the word "hysterectomy" and the patient was upset; I forgot to ask about stooling on an abdominal pain case; I took a grand total of 8 minutes on a telephone case and listed one thing on my differential; I didn't list more than 3 pertinent negatives on the whole exam; and much more that I don't remember; and I still passed.
This just confirms what so many have said on SDN - it is possible to make many mistakes, feel horrible after the exam and still pass.
Good luck everyone! Thanks to the kind souls who replied to this thread when I was freaking out.
