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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeff05" data-source="post: 6548071" data-attributes="member: 4896">i'm sorry to hear about your situation. some practical thoughts. 1. anesthesiology is a relatively competitive specialty, there are far less competitive fields he can apply to...2. having said this, i do not believe it is possible to do a residency without passing step 1. 3. this brings up a difficult to discuss issue: a part of medicine is memorization and application of certain concepts. while grossly imperfect, the boards do test some of those concepts. while i sympathize with the fact that your husband has 5 children, it would be fair to say that the responsibility of raising them should not amount to a substandard medical education. it seems that due to his other responsibilities your husband has not been able to fulfill his med school tasks. personally, i would not want to go see a physician who is so busy with other things in life, no matter how important, that he does not have time to study medicine.i would either1. have him take a hard core princeton review/kaplan class and then take the boards again...2. explore careers where a medical degree would be useful.best of luck, jeff</blockquote>

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