Timing of Step 2CS

[ear-ache]

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Hello all!

I have another quick, mundane question. My medical school has recently been advocating that everyone should have taken & passed Step 2CS before applying for residency. They advocate this because of “a growing trend that many residencies will not grant interviews to persons whom have not passed Step 2CS”. I have taken Step 2CK, but signed up for Step 2CS after interview season (when I thought it was just a hoop to jump through, prior to the new party line coming out of my med school). Has anyone heard of this “new trend” at their anesthesia programs? Should I scramble to take it before interviews?

Thank you for your responses.

 

[ear-ache]

Is this such an asinine question that it does not warrant a response? Or does no one know the answer?

Thank you for your brutal honesty 😉

 

[UTSouthwestern]

Is this such an asinine question that it does not warrant a response? Or does no one know the answer?

Thank you for your brutal honesty 😉

Brutal honesty, no clue. Will ask a few people and get back to you this afternoon.

 

[corpsmanUP]

I have been asking this question for weeks now but no one seems to know. People keep telling me that it is likely "program specific", but the ERAS application process speaks nothing about this. It only addresses it for FMG's who must pass it before match day and have it logged into ERAS otherwise they get eliminated from the match. My guess is that unless you read about the requirement on a particular program's website that they are not going to be a hard-a$$ about it.

 

[UTSouthwestern]

The answer I get is that the CS exam is not important for your application for interviewing and matching, but you MUST have it completed before the end of your MS4 year or else you cannot get your institutional training permit at the program you match to.

 

[ear-ache]

Thanks everyone. I appreciate your input.

 

[Trisomy13]

Hello all!

I have another quick, mundane question. My medical school has recently been advocating that everyone should have taken & passed Step 2CS before applying for residency. They advocate this because of “a growing trend that many residencies will not grant interviews to persons whom have not passed Step 2CS”. I have taken Step 2CK, but signed up for Step 2CS after interview season (when I thought it was just a hoop to jump through, prior to the new party line coming out of my med school). Has anyone heard of this “new trend” at their anesthesia programs? Should I scramble to take it before interviews?

Thank you for your responses.

While on my OBGyn rotation, the chairman was giving us a talk about residency application in general and said that if any of us were interested in his particular program (4 years of angry women, YEAH!!) that he prefers to see that we passed the CS exam at the time of the interview. His reasoning for this was that on at least one occasion he ranked and matched someone who subsequently failed CS and could not start the program as scheduled.

I think completing CS can only help, but not necessarily hurt you. It at least shows that you are interested jumping through all the hoops early.

Jump, monkey, jump!