I'm an MS3 who just finished my IM clerkship. I wasn't planning on applying for IM but I absolutely loved the clerkship and am now heavily considering matching into it. I did well on my evaluations (92%) and shelf exam (88%) but did poorly on my SPE (our school grades it in a weird way where the actor's feedback counts for 75% of your grade so even though the clerkship director gave me an awesome grade I only got a 77% overall). This SPE mishap caused me to only get high pass instead of honors. I am panicking because I am worried that by not having honors, IM programs won't even consider my application despite that fact that my other grades have been good and I got a 257 on step 1, extracurriculars, etc.
Do you need honors to match into a specialty?
Can programs see the full breakdown of our clerkship grades and see that I did okay on the shelf and faculty evaluations, just had a bad SPE score? Or will they just see a "high pass" without any other info?
If I did an AI in IM at my hospital during 4th year and got honors that time, would it be enough to overshadow the high pass from 3rd year?
Thank you!!
Do you need honors to match into a specialty?
Can programs see the full breakdown of our clerkship grades and see that I did okay on the shelf and faculty evaluations, just had a bad SPE score? Or will they just see a "high pass" without any other info?
If I did an AI in IM at my hospital during 4th year and got honors that time, would it be enough to overshadow the high pass from 3rd year?
Thank you!!
