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efle said:
Many are forced P/F and heads up, if you weren't aware, it may also be in the imminent future for many med students clerkship grades. I understand you dislike the idea of drastic responses to drastic upsets in the normal order, but pretending this cycle will resemble anything like the usual is insane imho.

Time will tell
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Completely wrong for undergrad institutions. Most are giving people the option. Very few are forcing people
 
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fldoctorgirl said:
I started UWorld with a block of 40 lol. Came back to this crap show of having to call NBME ourselves, and now, nothing else is getting done.
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Same. Did a solid block, got 80% right, felt real good, then saw all my classmates posting. No idea how I'm gonna get my anki done today.
 
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what are the odds that NBME lets the schools administer it? Im just jonesing out that if I just crank out Anki Cards for the next 2 weeks with the intention of saving world during new dedicated in January & then getting an email saying 'yeah nbme is letting us do it at school, see u in 2 weeks bro' and haven't even touched UWorld yet
 
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CyrusHabs7695 said:
"completing our analysis by June 30"

no rush guys take ur time
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Clearly they need 2 months to debate a way to fix this problem, rather than using some of the 100s of millions of dollars they make off of these exams to set up med schools like Prometric and let people start testing in June. Clearly.
 
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Yikes, I get they're trying to help, but I feel like this may encourage many cancelled students to simply not rebook a test day, only to find out later that their school cant proctor theirs after all.

Good to see they're aware at least and communicating something
 
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I still haven't heard anything from Prometric though numerous of my classmates have and I'm slightly afraid to call to find out. Some of my classmates who didn't get Prometric emails did have appointments cancelled while others have had their dates confirmed as still on.
 
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GoCards05 said:
I still haven't heard anything from Prometric though numerous of my classmates have and I'm slightly afraid to call to find out. Some of my classmates who didn't get Prometric emails did have appointments cancelled while others have had their dates confirmed as still on.
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Who do you call, the local Prometric where you're supposed to test or?
 
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efle said:
Yikes, I get they're trying to help, but I feel like this may encourage many cancelled students to simply not rebook a test day, only to find out later that their school cant proctor theirs after all.

Good to see they're aware at least and communicating something
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Most students wouldn't get a test day until August
 
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efle said:
Yikes, I get they're trying to help, but I feel like this may encourage many cancelled students to simply not rebook a test day, only to find out later that their school cant proctor theirs after all.

Good to see they're aware at least and communicating something
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Well they have remote proctoring on their list of options lol. I highly doubt they would go for it, but it would definitely be interesting...
 
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Chelsea FC said:
Most students wouldn't get a test day until August
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I was seeing a lot of reddit posts where people saw new openings popping up here and there, but maybe that's actually spaces mean to be vacant for distancing, and Prometric was actually stupid enough not to put a lockout on those spaces in the calendar.
 
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fldoctorgirl said:

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Seems inevitable that school administered exams are coming. Not a fan but beginning to look like the best option

This is truly an insane reaction. Most students are in a demographic that faces essentially zero risk and yet they decide to eliminate half the capacity for the medical licensing exams. genius move
 
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GoCards05 said:
The NBME and NBOME.
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I feel like in a way it's pointless to call from now? If they're going to keep rolling out cancellations until Thursday, maybe you could still be scheduled today but get cancelled tomorrow you know? But who knows, since they haven't really given us much info on how they're going about this.
 
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Type2Fiber said:
Seems inevitable that school administered exams are coming. Not a fan but beginning to look like the best option

This is truly an insane reaction. Most students are in a demographic that faces essentially zero risk and yet they decide to eliminate half the capacity for the medical licensing exams. genius move
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I am in agreement with this. But, I am also someone who thinks we should begin returning to normal in most places of the country (slowly, not everything opening at once obviously), which is an opinion that gets a lot of hate on this site.
 
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fldoctorgirl said:
I feel like in a way it's pointless to call from now? If they're going to keep rolling out cancellations until Thursday, maybe you could still be scheduled today but get cancelled tomorrow you know? But who knows, since they haven't really given us much info on how they're going about this.
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Yeah I figured it'll make no difference whether I find out today or tomorrow at this point so might as well just wait it out. The lines are completely full right now and I don't feel like dealing with anymore of their BS today lol.
 
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Check your spam folders guys. Someone just posted on the Step 2 thread that they got cancelled but the email went to spam.
 
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efle said:
If they allow USMLEs to be taken at home I'm going to lose my ****
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Aside from the obvious issues with cheating, I think I’d be scared to take it at home. What if my internet drops or computer crashes? I know technical issues happen at testing centers but I’d be nervous to have one at home and have no one on hand to help or even corroborate my story.
 
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efle said:
I mean I know nobody else agrees with me, but I'd rather have my good score be changed to Pass than have a career-defining exam be taken for thousands of doctors with Scouts Honor as the primary security measure
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How about they have the schools administer it? Just a few students at a time to apply the social distancing rules. That's a good solution if you ask me.
 
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efle said:
I mean I know nobody else agrees with me, but I'd rather have my good score be changed to Pass than have a career-defining exam be taken for thousands of doctors with Scouts Honor as the primary security measure
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I think most people, myself included, agree P/F is preferable to Zoom-proctored USMLE if those are the choices but there is no way they let a licensing exam be taken at home. Letting schools administer them may be the only workable solution unless they just decide to tell us tough luck and expect us to carve out 3rd year time to take it
 
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DrStephenStrange said:
How about they have the schools administer it? Just a few students at a time to apply the social distancing rules. That's a good solution if you ask me.
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Yep. Have the MD schools proctor it for their students and then us DO students can take all the Prometric spots. Everybody wins.
 
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Guys there is basically no chance NBME lets us take Step at home lol. Having it administered at schools makes a lot more sense.

GoCards05 said:
I don't see the NBME allowing DO schools to proctor USMLE so I would imagine Prometric is our only option (unfortunately).
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I see no reason why we couldn't go to whatever local MD school to take it.
 
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efle said:
I mean I know nobody else agrees with me, but I'd rather have my good score be changed to Pass than have a career-defining exam be taken for thousands of doctors with Scouts Honor as the primary security measure
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Efle chillin at his T2 school with his P/F flag in the air. I truly envy your position man lmao if i were you I would too honestly
 
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fldoctorgirl said:
Guys there is basically no chance NBME lets us take Step at home lol. Having it administered at schools makes a lot more sense.


I see no reason why we couldn't go to whatever local MD school to take it.
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I would be perfectly fine doing this but would they even allow us to do that? I feel like they might be permitted to proctor their own students only.
 
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fldoctorgirl said:
Guys there is basically no chance NBME lets us take Step at home lol. Having it administered at schools makes a lot more sense.


I see no reason why we couldn't go to whatever local MD school to take it.
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Exactly. The issue is space. The solution is making more room to accommodate that space. Why cant they open schools med, high schools, other building Idc how they do it. Just make more space its not rocket science. They are so dumb it hurts
 
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Deecee2DO said:
Exactly. The issue is space. The solution is making more room to accommodate that space. Why cant they open schools med, high schools, other building Idc how they do it. Just make more space its not rocket science. They are so dumb it hurts
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And they keep saying they don't want to do this because they're worried about the "integrity" of the exam being compromised if this were allowed...no sweetheart what you're actually worried about is the money you'd have to refund to all of us. You're not fooling anyone here.
 
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