RED FLAG: EXAM DATE?

[dorito932]

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Hello, I finished my third year of medical school and was wondering if residency programs will look at when a student has taken USMLE STEP1?

I am an IMG and decided to take a research year in between third and fourth and was planning on taking STEP 1 and 2 during this year. Will programs question why and consider this as un-ideal?

 

[gutonc]

Hello, I finished my third year of medical school and was wondering if residency programs will look at when a student has taken USMLE STEP1?

I am an IMG and decided to take a research year in between third and fourth and was planning on taking STEP 1 and 2 during this year. Will programs question why and consider this as un-ideal?

Only if you don't do well on them. Otherwise, nobody will care.

Your IMG status is a much bigger flag (yellow/orange/red/chartreuse) on your app than the timing of your Steps.

 

[dorito932]

thank you for the response, @gutonc! 🙂

 

[Piebaldi]

Hello, I finished my third year of medical school and was wondering if residency programs will look at when a student has taken USMLE STEP1?

I am an IMG and decided to take a research year in between third and fourth and was planning on taking STEP 1 and 2 during this year. Will programs question why and consider this as un-ideal?

What gutonc said. No one will care, as long as you do well.