Help please? I have failed Step 1 for 3rd time and...

[irlandesa]

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agree with above.. more and more people are choosing to stay in-state; if my state school had accepted me there is no way I would have gone to Tufts (much as I liked living in Boston). I matched at a residency program affiliated with a well-reputed (but not top 25, whatever that means) state school, and am WAY happier here than I would have been at T-NEMC. Prestige is rather subjective, and usually overrated.

 

[Sohalia]

I don't think UCSBMed1 is insecure at all! I think he's perfectly correct to make the assumptions that people who go to 'so called prestigious' schools are very ego-centric

I think this statement is pretty rude.

 

[Sohalia]

I thought only Step 2 was optional for graduation in some schools. I was under the impression that every medical school in the U.S. required you to pass Step 1 before you started 3rd yr let alone graduate. I could be wrong.

Not so at Duke. Here 2nd year is our core clinical year, 1st year is preclinical. 3rd is research and that is when most people take step 1, though you really just have to have it in for residency apps (to match, not for graduation). So if you do multiple research years before starting back for fourth year you can take it whenever. For graduation you just need to take step 1, 2ck, and 2cs before they hand you the diploma.

The curriculum committee meets regularly, so all the above is subject to change.

 

[neutropenic]

I don't think UCSBMed1 is insecure at all! I think he's perfectly correct to make the assumptions that people who go to 'so called prestigious' schools are very ego-centric

I think this statement is pretty rude.

I'll never forget my experience once sitting at Raleigh Durham airport. Had just interviewed at UNC for residency. Some kids (one from Yale, one from Penn) had just interviewed at Duke Medical School and they were chatting about this and that talking about interviewing at Hopkins and Penn, etc. So I started chatting with them about how I was also interviewing and stuff. When I told them I went to a non top 20 school, one of the kids from Yale just gave me the dirtiest look of disgust; so while not all top 20 and future Duke students are ego-centric, I am very sure some are.

If he can treat someone who is almost finished medical school at a sound but not top 20 LCME accredited school with such disdain and disgust, how is he going to treat an HIV+ G8P3 pregnant lady who dropped out of high school who shoots up heroin?

Which makes me a little apprehensive as I am going prelim with a few people from snob schools. But I ain't gonna take no crap.

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To the OP, you should have done a commercial prep course after the first failure (know someone at Emory who failed and took some time off to take a prep course). But now you need to negotiate with your school's promotions committee and come up with a plan to improve your step 1 and get on with life. Otherwise, just find something else to do. Contrary to popular belief you don't have to be a doctor. Maybe PA school? Or better yet something non medical: interpretive dance, sculpture, or film school?

 

[Zweihander]

Who are you talking to here, me or the Hopkins guy? Because believe me, I'm anything but insecure--I could care less about where my school is ranked. I'm from NorCal, so I'm at home, bro.

You said:

"I'm sure I'm not the only one that thought it sounded a little condescending."

I said:

"No, you're not."

On a second glance I realized that my post was worded in a bit of a confusing way because I initially was addressing you and then I switched to addressing the other dude. Sorry about that. In short: I agree with you.

 

[Morsetlis]

Necromancy 🙄

 

[Ghost22]

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I <3 the 2 digit numbers which are essentially phased out, to the best of my knowledge.

 

[DrMom]

Spammer is gone. Closing