Step 2 CK canceled (scheduled for next week) after mostly completing study for it.

[NeuResurgens]

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How viable of a strategy is it to take it after submitting ERAS and just study minimally for it? Semi-serious question.

 

[longhaul3]

Extremely viable especially if your Step 1 is strong. It's the norm in my specialty.

 

[NeuResurgens]

Extremely viable especially if your Step 1 is strong. It's the norm in my specialty.

Thank you for lessening my stress

 

[efle]

Per my advisors here, it totally depends on specialty and even specific programs within the specialty. Some don't care at all and just use your Step 1, while others will all want to know your Step 2 CK prior to rank list submission.

 

[longhaul3]

Thank you for lessening my stress

Hah—happy to help given how stressful it must be to be a med student right now, especially a rising 4th year.

I will say that this is definitely specialty-dependent. Most of the more competitive specialties, at least the surgical ones, follow this norm as far as I know.

The flip side is that I waited until pretty late and ended up having to take CK in the middle of a week in which I had 3 interviews in 3 different regions of the country. Would not recommend that. Did fine on minimal studying but it was painful. I think the sweet spot is to take it in September, so your score comes out after ERAS but before interview season ramps up. You also don't want to be taking CK (which is longer than Step 1, something I didn't realize until I sat down to take it) in the window when interview invitations start flying in late Sept-Oct, because you need to be by your email basically at all times.

 

[NicMouse64]

Up until this I was saying that m2s are the only med students who haven't got shafted this year. Hopefully they do open up as expected in mid april for those of us doing dedicated.

It's kinda nice to be forced inside and not to socialize while preparing for dedicated....misery loves company 👎.

 

[NeuResurgens]

Up until this I was saying that m2s are the only med students who haven't got shafted this year. Hopefully they do open up as expected in mid april for those of us doing dedicated.

It's kinda nice to be forced inside and not to socialize while preparing for dedicated....misery loves company 👎.

We're all pretty miserable right now, that's for dang sure!

Thankfully most of us aren't in the demographic that's going to die from all this, but the non-health consequences to everyone who survives are still gonna be significant.