Feel cruddy about my PE day could use some encouragement

[Scorcher31]

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I felt like I made a lot of mistakes on this sucker so I'm interested to see if i passed, I'm very on the fence. I felt my humanities stuff was right on the money on the plus side and I diddn't do anything that could get an automatic fail like writing i did something I diddn't do. I figure that has to raise the passing percentage to about 97%

I will say that on every patient i probably forgot something from pqrst or old carts or allergies or something, just from time and getting redirected with questions, at least i answered those well i think.

My note was pretty darn sloppy and i only noted somatic dysfunction quickly like back t8-t10 RlSr and only if it was there or they asked about it. I also had no idea how to document the omt i did and many times i diddnt or put in plan repeat myofascial in 3 weeks or something. With that said I think the actually OMT I did was probably passable. For better or worse I never put a chief complaint, i just had no room. I just worked it all into my a hpi without quotations. For example if they were here for back pain I would just say 56 y/old male presents with sharp back pain x 2 days. I completely forgot chief complaint as we never use it on our daily soap notes in the hospital.

There were 2 cases maybe 3 cases that i was grasping at straws so my differentials and plans were shaky at best along with my hx and what physical exam i did. the other 9 went much better at least that i had some logical treatment plans and differentials up and prob nailed the likely diagnosis.

I did pretty decent closing counceling, but there were a few pts that i decided at the end of the soap note lets get a rectal or pelvic that i diddn't warn them about. So all in all if anyones curious i'll let you know if i passed in a few months.

I've done above average on step 1 and step 2 written, and did fine on my family med rotations and what not, but just diddn't feel 100% on my game for this exam. Out of curosity, if I get my grade back in mid-January and I graduate in May any chance I'd be able to retake this sucker and get my grade back before graduation? I'm assuming I cant schedule it again until I get my grade but by then it may be hard to get febuary or very early march so I can graduate.

 

[Scorcher31]

So I can be somewhat useful the experience itself wasn't horrible, I diddn't leave knowing for sure that I failed or anything. The proctors and people running the day were nice and helped put us at ease somewhat. The standardized patients weren't fantastic, but they were above average at least compared to my school's standardized patients. The day was well organized and timed. Oh and there were hand sanitizers in the rooms which can be used instead of washing your hands, which i feel saves some time.

 

[FreakofMeds]

Why do you keep saying "diddn't"? Sorry, my CS experience was so long ago (three years) it is probably irrelevant now.

 

[Scorcher31]

Why do you keep saying "diddn't"? Sorry, my CS experience was so long ago (three years) it is probably irrelevant now.

Hey FreakofMeds I'm not sure exactly what you mean by why I kept saying diddn't. Sorry if it's the spelling i should have spelling checked it. Yes my spelling is subpar without a word processor at times. If you mean why am I being negative, I'm trying not to be, but am just anxious over the test. I think there is certainly a 50% chance I passed. I've done well in the past and I was nice to the standardized patients. If this is really a test that ensures you have the very min. communication skills and what not then I'd like to think I'll be fine, but there have been people here in the past that say they thought they did everything fairly and failed.

i was just trying to lay out the mistakes i think i made. Basically things I didn't do while still not giving any details about my test cases. I was trying to get an idea if people thought i still had a good shot of passing even with all of this as I'm very anxious at the moment. I also was just trying to see what people have done in the past that failed to see if somehow I would have time to retake it so i could somehow graduate mid/late may and not mess up match.