Pre-clinical grades questions

[DoctorToBe2016]

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I am a first year medical student (DO) and we recently finished up our first semester. I finished with 3 C's, 2 B's, and 2 A's. I am particularly interested in the super competitive specialites but I also don't really want to do family or internal medicine (nothing against those specialties, just not what I am interested in). I am thinking more along the lines of anesthesia, general surgery, or pathology. I was simply wondering if anyone knows anything about these specialtes competitiveness and how those grades might affect me. Thank you for any help with this

 

[cliquesh]

The better you do, the better your class rank, but I'm not sure how much it matters. Only 1 person on my interview trail ever commented on my pre-clinical grades. I don't think it matters that much. Board scores are most important. Good LORs and good clinical grades can help a lot too. But a good step 1 matters most.

 

[Dharma]

you should ask yourself why you only landed C's in a few of those courses. just get unlucky or are there content/comprehension deficiencies? learn the content well for your boards... because they will hold a lot of weight.

check out the 2012 pd survey to get an idea of what program directors are saying in terms of ranking their prospects:

www.nrmp.org/data/programresultsbyspecialty2012.pdf

 

[Goro]

Residency directors do not give a rat's ass about your grades. COMLEX, LORs, class standing; that's what counts.

I am a first year medical student (DO) and we recently finished up our first semester. I finished with 3 C's, 2 B's, and 2 A's. I am particularly interested in the super competitive specialites but I also don't really want to do family or internal medicine (nothing against those specialties, just not what I am interested in). I am thinking more along the lines of anesthesia, general surgery, or pathology. I was simply wondering if anyone knows anything about these specialtes competitiveness and how those grades might affect me. Thank you for any help with this