Is it a relief to be a resident
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I'm not sure if your post was tongue-in-cheek or a genuine question, but yes - Dermatology is probably THE specialty of minutiae (with a slight nod towards my Path colleagues). You'd be shocked.
I think @PatsyStone was the one to initially stress the minutiae point, but she is correct.
Our ITE classically delves very deep into the minutiae and details, although I felt this year the exam stressed more global/basic concepts (and the mean reflected this). Whether or not that will continue to be a trend remains to be seen, but I sort of doubt it.
This is how our scores are reported as well. They also show where you would fit in with the other PGY classes.
It was pretty nice as a first year resident to see that I scored well above the 50th percentile for third year residents.
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Watch out for that mercaptobenzothiazole.
Most quality mens' shoes are leather-soled, so there's usually less of a chance for allergic contact dermatitis to MBT or thiuram (the top two offenders, both utilized in rubber). I presume womens' shoes are similar.
Although for athletic shoes, all bets are off.
Oh, there's much more. But there's plenty of minutiae, too.
It was broken out by year but the board pass correlation was based on the raw score. If our ITE was set up like yours, then I"d agree that percentiles mattered.
Isn't all of ortho just labled "bone stuff"?
I believe the sections are "bone broke", "bone hurt", "bone look funny - grew that way or made that way".
Approximately 14% of the exam is relegated to the Alimentary tract of which a small percentage is labeled anorectal.
I think butt stuff is found more heavily represented on the colorectal board exam.
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Of the many disadvantages to our trade, getting your balls kicked around as a resident for years is not one of them. Typically. We, as a group, tend to understand, the virtues...of chilling the F out. Such that I whiff on the OP's question in regards to these other fields. I'm like...oh yeah...that clerkship was the anti-chill of course that would suck. I totally forgot for a minute.
