So far it's been 3 working days since the dean's letters (MSPE) were released. If I were a program director at a good program I'd wait to send an interview invite until after I had time to review that letter.
Meanwhile it's my understanding that on an away rotation you're supposed to try to get your interview to happen while you're onsite. At least introduce yourself to the program director as an applicant who is rotating this month and gosh is there any chance you could interview me while I'm here?
Best of luck y'all.
Yeah, I'm afraid of that. Somehow despite getting high pass and honors virtually across the board, I slipped into the bottom half to bottom quarter of my class during 3rd year.
I was generally about 0.3 points or so from honors pretty consistently; and seeing that our school doesn't share what qualifies as honors with the preceptors, mine wouldn't have known what to do to make honors other than give me perfect marks across the board. We are graded on a scale of 1-5 on a variety of criteria and the average of the scores determines our grade. It's also geared heavily toward the evaluation. To the point where I could miss honors on the eval by 0.001 point, and honor the shelf with a score 2-3 SD above the mean and I'd still get a High-Pass.
On my most recent eval, from my FM sub-I, the faculty member complained about our evaluation forms saying the criteria didn't represent what they use to critique students, and that he didn't feel like it was a good tool. Then he asked me what qualified as honors and when I tried to explain that it was based on an average of the scores on the eval he just said "can I just write that you honored according to our criteria in the comments?" I told him to go ahead; result: high-pass by numbers, with the comment that I honored according to their standards.
This process is turning into a real drag...
