I have a habit of saying, I "could care less", when it's I "couldn't care less" as @PL198 has corrected me. It's a bad habit and hard to get rid of once you're used to it.
Yup. It will be no doubt. Just ridiculous since you won't have an alternative pathway. Med school is still 4 years as always, so in the end no change in time. At least the med school gets to look good out of it.
Oh totally. Just having some fun.
They likely won't. And they'll be as useless as Duke students apparently are on their MS-2 clerkships. Of course they get 3 whole months to Study for Step 1 anyways.
Harvard doesn't do that now in terms of "teaching to the boards". That is so anti-Harvard.
I didn't know they released a paper on it! (I should know better, I know). Very impressed with their Dean of Student Affairs -- he was AOA, and still has the opinion he does regarding Pass/Fail grading when he could have easily had the opinion of "If I did it, so do you". Good for SLU. Wash U not so much.
Ask @southernIM. That's why I said apparently.
Both. And the Dean of the medical school doesn't know their dingus from the hole in the ground when it comes to the match.
Are you talking about preclinicals or overall class rank (which if you're anything but true P/F, contributes to it)?
You mean evaluation comments, right? Um, yeah, you overall rank is determined by preclinical and clinical grades, with clinical making up a majority of your class rank.
Yes, tell us how that meeting goes.
Bc your school is "true" Pass/Fail.
^^THIS.
AOA is an award. It is in no way necessarily "fair". Class rank on the other hand has to objective in terms of calculation. So if you do indeed go to a "true" pass/fail school, then it won't go into the class rank calculation.
Yes, tell us how that meeting goes.
Life's not fair. At the end, in terms of ranking, all that matters is the grade: H, HP, P, F.
Bwahahaha.
All clerkships have a "consistent rubric" on their clinical evals. Doesn't mean jack squat.
Which surprises me that millenial med students as a whole want to be salaried employed by hospital physicians and not work in private practice.
I like the med student kiss-*** in there who "swallowed the blue pill" (whatever that means, bc he didn't experience the curriculum, he created it with his Masters in Education he got at Vanderbilt), talking about what a great program it is, while he's sitting at a desk pretend flipping thru First Aid.
I can almost guarantee the professors at Harvard Medical School who run basic science courses haven't even picked up a First Aid (they'd laugh their asses off if they did). If it tells you anything, Harvard doesn't even have an AOA chapter, unlike even UPenn. Harvard makes its own rules and doesn't follow the crowd.
Some medical schools are very honest about being a "true" Pass/Fail school in the first 2 years --- and actually use this term on their websites -- ex. Pritzker. Some (or many) aren't quite as honest and forthcoming. It's not a question of secretly ranking. There are schools that are Pass/Fail in the first 2 years (when it comes to your official transcript) but keep your grades internally for rank on your MSPE or for AOA purposes.
It definitely doesn't help. It's like those med students that pretty much copy your intern note and present your plan like it's their plan. Then they hit internship and have no idea what they're doing and they have no one to copy from.
