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Hello, I am a fourth year that did not match into EM. After the match, I found out I failed Comlex II Clinical Knowledge and PE. I took both one day after the other and was going through a divorce at the time and will document that as my reason.
I have retaken the Comlex, and am now thinking I should also take the USMLE (I never took step one USMLE) to help convince allopathic programs that the first failure was a fluke.
I plan on applying to every EM program in the country next year, DO and MD, all 160 of them.
I do not plan on doing an internship year as a I need a break from my hell of a life. I have good grades in EM clerkships, excellent EM letters, some limited research, good clerkship grades, good deans letter, loads of extracurricular and leadership activities in EM. I did not apply to enough programs in EM (geographic limitation),
Would you go with my plan of taking Step II USMLE? (I do not see what use Comlex 3 would be allo programs if I took that, plus it may be hard since I would not have the months of clinical internship experience)
I have retaken the Comlex, and am now thinking I should also take the USMLE (I never took step one USMLE) to help convince allopathic programs that the first failure was a fluke.
I plan on applying to every EM program in the country next year, DO and MD, all 160 of them.
I do not plan on doing an internship year as a I need a break from my hell of a life. I have good grades in EM clerkships, excellent EM letters, some limited research, good clerkship grades, good deans letter, loads of extracurricular and leadership activities in EM. I did not apply to enough programs in EM (geographic limitation),
Would you go with my plan of taking Step II USMLE? (I do not see what use Comlex 3 would be allo programs if I took that, plus it may be hard since I would not have the months of clinical internship experience)