kicked out of medical school, help!

[zaftabafta]

i'm a second year medical student who has just failed an OSCE, medical education been terminated, what do i do now?

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[jnuts]

Do you not get a repeat?

 

[leorl]

Can you speak to the advisor who was assigned to you?

 

[bambi]

i'm a second year medical student who has just failed an OSCE, medical education been terminated, what do i do now?

You don't get kicked out for failing 1 exam once, except maybe in France but probably not even there. There must be more to the story.

 

[zaftabafta]

sorry guys i didn't give u the whole story, basically i aced all my papers and failed my clinical skills exam, they made me repeat the year and sit that one exam again, and i have supposedly failed again, i prepared really well for it and don't swee how i could have failed, what the hell do i do?

 

[bambi]

Is there not some kind of progress committee that you can plead your case to? Saying that if you have already failed a year they prob wouldn't let you back in. How come they made you resit the year instead of just the exam?

 

[zaftabafta]

its just the way it works, the progress meeting is next week, but what the hell do i say to them, so messed up i prepared so well but panicked on the day, lets say its the end of medicine what do i do now?

 

[bambi]

its just the way it works, the progress meeting is next week, but what the hell do i say to them, so messed up i prepared so well but panicked on the day, lets say its the end of medicine what do i do now?

Which med school are you talking about? I don't know any in the UK that make you resit the whole year without first giving you the chance to resit the failed exam by itself.

 

[zaftabafta]

they did offer me a resit which i took, but then i didnt pass it, then went to progress where they offered me another chance but at the end of the year, and i didn't pass again

 

[bambi]

Well then, not meaning to upset you but that's probably it for you, unless you have a really good reason why you failed again?

 

[Sage880]

What country is this in? Seems a bit harsh.

If it's not too late, maybe get a private tutor or something for the OSCE's. It took me a long time to figure out what they really wanted in those exams. I was going about them the totally wrong way when I started medical school.

 

[zaftabafta]

in liverpool, england

 

[bambi]

Unless you have a really good reason I don't really see what they can say. There does have to be a limit and you have failed it 3 times now right? If you hadn't already resat a year they would probably let you but I really doubt they would let you again. Liverpool are more lenient than a lot of med schools though so you never know. If you have a good reason, personal problems or whatever then tell them, at this point that might be the only thing that can save you. If not, I imagine the best they will do is offer to help you find a place on another course. Sorry if it sounds harsh but you need to prepare yourself.