Hello everyone,
My significant other is in a difficult situation, he recently failed his COMLEX Level 1 for the third time about a week ago. The next day, he was dismissed from our school without an option to withdrawal as our current state limits the amount of COMLEX attempts to 3. We are completely overwhelmed. To give some background, he successfully passed (our school is P/F) his first two years of medical school. During his 3rd year, he passed 4 COMATs before being pulled on his first LOA, which occurred right around the time the pandemic begun. He's been struggling with his depression and trying to care for his young children as a single parent during the pandemic, which made the studying process more difficult. He returned to school to complete his 4th year EM rotation in the fall of 2020, which he passed, at which point his 2nd failed score returned and he was pulled out again for a second LOA. I suspect that the prolonged time out of clinical rotations has hurt rather than helped him in this regard.
I cannot convey to everyone how devastating this situation is for us, we're grieving and still trying to find a way out for us. His dream is to become a physician, so much so that it has become a part of his identity, and to lose that has been difficult for him. We have no idea where to turn, he's tentatively looking at a masters degree offered by our school as a way to fill the year and for us to stay together. I am also a medical student, we were in the same class, and I am stuck for another year until I can graduate and hopefully follow him during residency. He's also considering PA/NP school, however, we're concerned that more schooling = more debt and he's already close to $400K (combined undergrad + med school). We're also considering applying to transfer to another DO school, which we know is a long shot, our only hope with that option being that our school specifically told him there was "nothing wrong with his transcript aside from the COMLEX scores." Has anyone had success with any of the options following dismissal or heard of anyone in a similar situation who could give us some guidance?
Thank you everyone,
Myopathy2
My significant other is in a difficult situation, he recently failed his COMLEX Level 1 for the third time about a week ago. The next day, he was dismissed from our school without an option to withdrawal as our current state limits the amount of COMLEX attempts to 3. We are completely overwhelmed. To give some background, he successfully passed (our school is P/F) his first two years of medical school. During his 3rd year, he passed 4 COMATs before being pulled on his first LOA, which occurred right around the time the pandemic begun. He's been struggling with his depression and trying to care for his young children as a single parent during the pandemic, which made the studying process more difficult. He returned to school to complete his 4th year EM rotation in the fall of 2020, which he passed, at which point his 2nd failed score returned and he was pulled out again for a second LOA. I suspect that the prolonged time out of clinical rotations has hurt rather than helped him in this regard.
I cannot convey to everyone how devastating this situation is for us, we're grieving and still trying to find a way out for us. His dream is to become a physician, so much so that it has become a part of his identity, and to lose that has been difficult for him. We have no idea where to turn, he's tentatively looking at a masters degree offered by our school as a way to fill the year and for us to stay together. I am also a medical student, we were in the same class, and I am stuck for another year until I can graduate and hopefully follow him during residency. He's also considering PA/NP school, however, we're concerned that more schooling = more debt and he's already close to $400K (combined undergrad + med school). We're also considering applying to transfer to another DO school, which we know is a long shot, our only hope with that option being that our school specifically told him there was "nothing wrong with his transcript aside from the COMLEX scores." Has anyone had success with any of the options following dismissal or heard of anyone in a similar situation who could give us some guidance?
Thank you everyone,
Myopathy2
