r we supposed to pass in each patient encounter?

[Ice dude]

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hey guys,

Does anyone know r we supposed to pass in each patient encounter individually, to pass in the CS?

 

[EternalMD]

I'm not sure if that information is explicitly stated anywhere. What I do know is that two of the encounters don't count (someone had told me this - either it was FA or I read it somewhere) but which 2? no idea.

My school has its graduation OSCE where we just had to have an overall pass in the OSCE. I'm sure there is some flexibility because even at our home institution, one of the SPs gave an avg score of 52 to all the students while most of the others were reasonable - hopefully the same type of rule applies to the CS (I think it would be terrible to fail due to one bad encounter)

 

[Biscuit799]

First Aid for CS actually has a great chapter in the intro section on the criteria required to pass. Basically you're scored in two sections (interataction with pt, and clinical reasoning), and those scores are averaged over all rooms. You have to average a passing grade in both sections to pass.

 

[winner123]

hey guys,

Does anyone know r we supposed to pass in each patient encounter individually, to pass in the CS?

You have to do a 70% on average over all the encounters in the three Step-2CS subcomponents called CIS,ICE,SEP.
You have not to pass each encounter as such.

Yes,if one gets wrong on even 2 to 3 cases , one can pass the exam.