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Not reaching the honors threshold for the shelf. I get infected with airhead when I sit down for it, my focus gets lost.Are you not honoring the shelf 2/2 a high 'honors' threshold, or just not doing great on the exams?
First of all, obviously what's done is done, and there is no "right" answer. If you were at a P/F clinical school you likely would be sweating how you were going to distinguish yourself without any objective measures.Will do this for sure.
Recently been in a tough mental spot just because I keep thinking back to the past. I had the option to go to P/F clinical school and I didn't take it. I don't know what I was thinking. It's like clinicals change people. The boot licking, *** kissing, the fakeness is insane. I know I shouldn't be fixated on the past but haven't been able to help it recently.
Would be helpful to know where the cutoff is and how things are graded at your school. The way my school grades it can very easily look like the shelf is the problem, but really the system is just designed to spare attendings/residents the burden of writing bad evals. A lot of people hit the Honors threshold with clinical grades, but in reality the shelf acts as the spoiler and the true Honors cutoff is quite a bit higher than what it is on paper (i.e., everyone gets 85-95 on clinical grades, but really you need 92+ to have a chance for 90 overall since the shelf will inevitably bring you down unless you can score 99th percentile consistently). So the attending can basically say, "I gave you an Honors eval" or "oh you just missed Honors, but very good performance" while knowing they are truly giving a HP eval unless that student can somehow score >90 raw on the shelf.Not reaching the honors threshold for the shelf. I get infected with airhead when I sit down for it, my focus gets lost.