Is my COM advisor right or wrong about these things?
Started by medrednoct
1. Wrong
2. Depends how much your COMAT is weighted in your clinical grades. At my school it's the entire grade so they matter a lot.
3. Correct
2. Depends how much your COMAT is weighted in your clinical grades. At my school it's the entire grade so they matter a lot.
3. Correct
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@Goro If the individual goes to a P/F school like me, how does the residency/PD assess the applicant? Step 2 and ECs? I am still learning the ropes!
Step 2 is king. Research is a distant 2nd. No one cares about other ECs except to use them as interview fodder.
A P/F DO school is hurting it’s applicants honestly. I suspect you are still being ranked and this rank will be reported to residencies
I’m sure the ranking is kept in a file by quartile but I heard the school told some students they do not send ranking to residencies.
I stopped getting caught up in the minutiae of things because at the end of the day I’m gonna be a practicing doc and most people I know are doing mediocre to below average and would love to be in my position.
people at my school have matched into neurosurgery, derm and IR but I’m sure it’s an uphill battle
Why do you believe preclinical/clinical grades don't have an impact? What about a failed preclinical course or having to repeat a rotation?
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It’s just a double standard. Those things will only impact you in a bad way. Some thing goes for Step 1 now that it’s pass-fail: passing it won’t actively help you, but failing it will get you kicked out of the pile at the majority of places.
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The COMAT thing isn’t true, some schools don’t even release COMAT scores, or only do so with the student’s permission.
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PDs have said as much. Also, many schools are P/F themselves
Those will always be red flags
Do things like preclinical and clinical grades matter based on what specialty that you're going into or is it fairly unimportant across multiple specialties? Cause I imagine that an individual's class rank may matter somewhat for certain specialties now that step 1 is pass/fail, although I feel that I could be wrong.
is there a way potential applicants can find out which places do tend to care about things like that? I won't be applying for a while, but I'm assuming that it might be good to know early on, just in case. My assumption is just that it's basically Ivy leagues who will screen for top quartile, right?
You’d be amazed at the ridiculous standards a program you’ve never heard of will have because they truly believe that they’re the best program ever.
It ultimately doesn’t matter do your best. Apply broadly and hope it works out.
Clinical grades are usually important because they’re much more about being a tolerable human who shows up on time than anything else.
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