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Hi,
I was in the midst of my rotation today when I checked my phone to find my score, I was relieved by the fact that I had passed. But I was very shocked as how my score could be so low and far off from the COMSAE exams I had taken and the 75% timed non tutor comquest average I had gotten. I had also done Uworld as practice too as well as Pathoma. I felt really good coming out of my exam and I felt I had an "easy" test compared to how others had posted, perhaps that is why my test had a higher curve?
At any rate, I was wondering, looking forward, what my realistic outlook would be if I wanted to still pursue emergency medicine? I am still keeping an open mind to all specialties, but I had done a lot of work in the ER and shadowed several physicians before coming into DO school. Subsequently, I thought it was something I may enjoy.
I am a mostly an A/B student at my school with an upward trend ( around 3.4 GPA). I have ER relevant EC's nothing too substantial though. I did not take the USMLE step 1 as I did not feel that I would get the average score on it and was feeling like the COMLEX questions were cake compared to my USMLE world q's. I feel that I may have gotten a <200 score had I taken it. I am flexible in terms of location as I have no family. I just want a spot and don't care where it is.
I also do like OMM and would love an AOA residency, but would be open to an ACGME one too. I know that the generic advice would be to not get too focused on EM and also do great on Step II, but I was wondering how competitive or uncompetitive this score is? I know it is substantially lower than the average. I was just wondering if my tentative goal of going into EM is even a realistic possibility at this stage or if I should just forget it and stick to something with a lower average score.
I didn't just wing this exam and felt it was a well written test for whatever it is worth. I even studied (and enjoyed studying OMM) regularly. I waited until the last possible day to take it in order to maximize my scoring potential. I'm just at a loss as to what happened. But I am also grateful that I passed as I know some classmates who did not fair to well.
This was my first attempt for whatever it is worth.
Thank you for any advice.
I was in the midst of my rotation today when I checked my phone to find my score, I was relieved by the fact that I had passed. But I was very shocked as how my score could be so low and far off from the COMSAE exams I had taken and the 75% timed non tutor comquest average I had gotten. I had also done Uworld as practice too as well as Pathoma. I felt really good coming out of my exam and I felt I had an "easy" test compared to how others had posted, perhaps that is why my test had a higher curve?
At any rate, I was wondering, looking forward, what my realistic outlook would be if I wanted to still pursue emergency medicine? I am still keeping an open mind to all specialties, but I had done a lot of work in the ER and shadowed several physicians before coming into DO school. Subsequently, I thought it was something I may enjoy.
I am a mostly an A/B student at my school with an upward trend ( around 3.4 GPA). I have ER relevant EC's nothing too substantial though. I did not take the USMLE step 1 as I did not feel that I would get the average score on it and was feeling like the COMLEX questions were cake compared to my USMLE world q's. I feel that I may have gotten a <200 score had I taken it. I am flexible in terms of location as I have no family. I just want a spot and don't care where it is.
I also do like OMM and would love an AOA residency, but would be open to an ACGME one too. I know that the generic advice would be to not get too focused on EM and also do great on Step II, but I was wondering how competitive or uncompetitive this score is? I know it is substantially lower than the average. I was just wondering if my tentative goal of going into EM is even a realistic possibility at this stage or if I should just forget it and stick to something with a lower average score.
I didn't just wing this exam and felt it was a well written test for whatever it is worth. I even studied (and enjoyed studying OMM) regularly. I waited until the last possible day to take it in order to maximize my scoring potential. I'm just at a loss as to what happened. But I am also grateful that I passed as I know some classmates who did not fair to well.
This was my first attempt for whatever it is worth.
Thank you for any advice.
