passed comlex did poorly on usmle

[medstudent25]

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anyone in this situation? I shouldn't have shelled out an extra 500 taking the usmle! I'm mad at myself now. I failed the usmle just by a few points!

do you think it's worth retaking the usmle?? My thoughts are to kick ass on rotations and step 2 of the comlex.

 

[Terpskins99]

anyone in this situation? I shouldn't have shelled out an extra 500 taking the usmle! I'm mad at myself now. I failed the usmle just by a few points!

do you think it's worth retaking the usmle?? My thoughts are to kick ass on rotations and step 2 of the comlex.

Depends on a couple of things.

What specialty are you thinking of?
Are you picky about the location where you match?
If you did take the USMLE over again, how certain are you that you'll pass and/or do well on it?

 

[medstudent25]

I'm not thinking anything too competitive. Maybe Internal Medicine, Fam Practice, Peds.

I'm not really picky w/ location--just that it's a good solid program that will help me be the best doc I can be.

Well, I retook the MCAT and pretty much scored the same ...so I don't think taking the USMLE again will change anything...the USMLE hit my weak points, lot of genetics, immunology and I started sayin wtf to myself. thanks for the feedback!

 

[Terpskins99]

I'm not thinking anything too competitive. Maybe Internal Medicine, Fam Practice, Peds.

I'm not really picky w/ location--just that it's a good solid program that will help me be the best doc I can be.

Well, I retook the MCAT and pretty much scored the same ...so I don't think taking the USMLE again will change anything...the USMLE hit my weak points, lot of genetics, immunology and I started sayin wtf to myself. thanks for the feedback!

You don't need to take it over again. Those specialties are all within reach once you passed COMLEX (though you may need to work extra hard through an IM residency to get into a cardio/GI fellowship afterwards) and you should focus on kicking butt during 3rd year rotations and singling out hospitals to rotate at for 4th year. It would be extremely difficult juggling all that while simultaneously studying for the USMLE again (of which, frankly, it sounds like you have quite a bit of catching up to do).

Molecular, genetics, biochem and immunology... if you've been surfing this forum pretty frequently, you'd know that all of those subjects are hit to a fair degree on the USMLE.