No clue. According to the CPA board people, emails would be going out to those not cancelled regarding the new procedures for social distancing and what not. Until I see that email, I'm assuming nothing.
"....and you did 30,000 flash cards?? wow, I'm glad it's P/F now"
Let the record state that 30k flaschards actually means 150k+ flashcards 😉
While walking up a hill both ways barefoot in the cold
Cry together it is.
If enough people get behind it......I just had a friend message me and she hasn't even been cancelled yet, and she goes "they should just make it P/F for us".
It sounds like your friend needs an intensive re-education feat. fldoctorgirl talking about why P/F is actively bad for DOs
Yes, this has been announced.
docs.google.com
It's very hard to convince people, especially those that aren't on the Anki train. My friend started using Anki only this year in like the middle of our first semester of M2, so she's been grinding for a few months but I guess it's not the same as 2 years. I pointed her to NBME's statement saying no, but she's like "things change in a pandemic". I am afraid that @efle may be right, and we may be the minority of students instead of the majority. I have no doubt a ton of people don't want it to go P/F, but we just may be outnumbered. I think the only thing that will save us is the logistics of implementing this, because I'm sure it's a lot of work on NBME's part and would probably be difficult to accelerate. But, I suddenly have no doubts that there will be a large push for this from a sizable portion of med students.
There are alot of people on Twitter asking about P/F. I believe USMLE answered to them that we r not moving the timeline for P/F. This was a few days ago. I will try to post the picture of the conversation from twitter. I follow the USMLE handle.
Everyone keeps mentioning this, but we still need to take the exam either way, so it does nothing but create even more confusion. What we need is for prometric and schools to give us MORE flexibility regarding the current situation.
Ah I see. Fair that you bring all that up. What a sad state of affairs. If there were a way in which P/F is indeed better for the good of the whole vs the good of the few (high-achievers wanting competitive specialties) then I could sympathize with P/F. But for DOs, I think there is a convincing argument that it's bad for the whole and bad for the few. But I'm preaching to the choir. Oh well! We're powerless and will have to wait and see.
F***, I thought they were done.
Yes, it was.
On Reddit people with Step only have been cancelled, so not sure.
Yup. I would be devastated if my tests got cancelled, but you know what I would do? Keep doing what I've been doing; grinding Anki and choose a new q-bank to work through. I'd rather keep doing that than go P/F, but the people who are now starting dedicated and realizing how f***ed they are are realizing they'd be better off with P/F. I've seen it happen multiple times amongst my own classmates over the last few days: "I didn't realize how much I forgot! I have so much to review!!". They're panicking because they're underprepared, and they would be even if they sat for Step within the next month or two, but it's easier to blame it on COVID than themselves.
Agree 100%. I know for a fact I wouldn't have done Zanki if not for a score..maybe I would've done it for each systems-course for school, but I would've dropped the cards as soon as the course was over. And if my preclinical was P/F, I wouldn't have even done that. I feel like I've learned so much over the last 2 years, mostly because of Zanki. Sure some of it is minutiae, but overall I feel like I have a much better understanding of everything because of it. I saw the effects of this just over the last couple of months of switching to P/F in school: I put minimum effort in, because it didn't matter. And yeah, it was really nice to relax a bit, no argument there. But overall? I learned way more when I was busting for an A or a 230.
Remember guys, the mentors and role models you are about to have on the wards, the people who inspire you to be a certain kind of specialty or who at least get you excited about sharing their field for a month, the people beloved by residents and patients alike - those are people who scored borderline-failing step scores or didn't even take it at all.
I don't think the NBME cares about this. There's are simple ways to alleviate many of these issues. The problem is everyone is pointing fingers at one another to get things done.
Seems like we're making large generalizations here, but okay.
Yeah, but again P/F isn't the solution to this. Letting schools and/or other testing sites administer the exam is.
