Shelf exams

[Sthpawslugger]

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Does your school use the national shelf exams or does the faculty write their own for you to take?

 

[moyamoya6]

Does your school use the national shelf exams or does the faculty write their own for you to take?

National NBOME COMAT exams

 

[Robotfishbrain]

It's an accreditation requirement to use federal standards for shelf exams. I can't imagine a school would go through all the trouble to make their own when NBME/NBOME have done all the work.

 

[Sthpawslugger]

? Is there a school that doesn’t use NBME or NBOME shelfs for third year?

Yes.

 

[BorntobeDO?]

Yes.

In addition, or in place of?

 

[alprazoslam]

Wish they would use nbme instead of comats lol. At least comats are better written than lollex

 

[shadowlightfox]

In addition, or in place of?

I know my school has in addition. We have rotations in specialties that other med schools don't have, so for those, they use in-house exams.

 

[alprazoslam]

I know my school has in addition. We have rotations in specialties that other med schools don't have, so for those, they use in-house exams.

Ewwww what other rotations??

 

[alprazoslam]

Our experience seems to be polar opposite.

My comlex was clear and well written. So far the comats are extremely bizarre and I have no idea what they are asking me about a third of the time.

Probably the yuge variability in quality of NBOME written stuff

 

[Sthpawslugger]

In addition, or in place of?

in place of.

 

[BorntobeDO?]

Our experience seems to be polar opposite.

My comlex was clear and well written. So far the comats are extremely bizarre and I have no idea what they are asking me about a third of the time.

Comlex was better than the COMATs have been so far. My scores aren't so different, but the COMATs (especially the OMM one) are bad.

 

[FourniersGreenGang]

?

Who

Loyola University doesn't. I'm sure others don't either but I can't say.