Since I am waiting for my score still, I thought I would ask for some opinions on my Step 2cs. I spoke with two classmates who took the exam with me, and I unfortunately made much more errors than they did. We are all american IMGs.
All of my differentials were fairly good, but for 2 cases I missed the main diagnosis. For 3 other cases, I had the most likely diagnosis, but missed an obvious differential. So thats 5 cases that differentials were off (wow that seems huge).
My physical exams were lacking. I missed an entire HEENT exam on a cough patient, and an entire Neuro exam on a pre-syncope patient (ran out of time). For a joint pain case, I only did gait and ROM, no specific exams for the joint or adjacent joints. There's also smaller random things I forgot, like a PMI or fundoscopic exam, etc.
I think my patient notes were decent though. I always finished them, I tried to throw in supporting evidence. I followed SOCRATES for my history, and always got the FH, SH, and PMH.
My two classmates are trying to convince me I didn't do too bad, but compared to them I really messed up the ICE. What do you guys think. Does anyone got errors as bad as me?
All of my differentials were fairly good, but for 2 cases I missed the main diagnosis. For 3 other cases, I had the most likely diagnosis, but missed an obvious differential. So thats 5 cases that differentials were off (wow that seems huge).
My physical exams were lacking. I missed an entire HEENT exam on a cough patient, and an entire Neuro exam on a pre-syncope patient (ran out of time). For a joint pain case, I only did gait and ROM, no specific exams for the joint or adjacent joints. There's also smaller random things I forgot, like a PMI or fundoscopic exam, etc.
I think my patient notes were decent though. I always finished them, I tried to throw in supporting evidence. I followed SOCRATES for my history, and always got the FH, SH, and PMH.
My two classmates are trying to convince me I didn't do too bad, but compared to them I really messed up the ICE. What do you guys think. Does anyone got errors as bad as me?
