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[Lionboy]

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Hello Everyone
I am a medical graduate with the following stats: Step I:90, Step II: 96, honored 4/5 core rotations, excellet LORs, a lot of community service hours...Unfortunately, I recently failed the ICE component of the Usmle Step 2 cs. From your experience how do programs view a failing Usmle step 2 cs score?
Thanks for all your time

 

[BabyPsychDoc]

Hello Everyone
I am a medical graduate with the following stats: Step I:90, Step II: 96, honored 4/5 core rotations, excellet LORs, a lot of community service hours...Unfortunately, I recently failed the ICE component of the Usmle Step 2 cs. From your experience how do programs view a failing Usmle step 2 cs score?
Thanks for all your time

Realistically, do you know what the problem was with your failing the ICE component? What feedback did you get? Are you IMG, FMG or AMG? And how do you think the psych programs will view your performance on the ICE component of the Step 2 CS? You do not have to reply to these qs, just think about the answers yourself.

 

[psychattending]

Hello Everyone
I am a medical graduate with the following stats: Step I:90, Step II: 96, honored 4/5 core rotations, excellet LORs, a lot of community service hours...Unfortunately, I recently failed the ICE component of the Usmle Step 2 cs. From your experience how do programs view a failing Usmle step 2 cs score?
Thanks for all your time

Failing a test is, of course, a warning flag. How much it affects your candidacy depends on the rest of your application and how your interview goes. The best thing for you to do would be to retake the test so that the results are available prior to rank lists being turned in.

 

[MoonSTRuK]

Can anyone of you please inform me if it's possible to join Kaplan Live Course for USMLE in USA on B1/B2 visa? I registered my Kaplan course from Dubai and already paid the fees for a 2 months program. Now I am in USA. I got informed that it's necessary to have a F1 visa to enter the program. What shall I do in such a case? Please guide me as I am very worried and confused. Thank you ...

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[hamstergang]

Can anyone of you please inform me if it's possible to join Kaplan Live Course for USMLE in USA on B1/B2 visa?

You know who knows the answer? The people from the Kaplan Live Course. Any answer you get from someone else here will do you no good unless the Kaplan people agree with it. So why waste time asking here?

 

[Leo Aquarius]

Don't you think someone who has failed so many major exams might be unsuited to practice medicine? The passing score for Step 1 is around 190 and you got a 90. You might be a danger to patients without solid knowledge. Anything else you want to do with your life perhaps?

 

[shan564]

Don't you think someone who has failed so many major exams might be unsuited to practice medicine? The passing score for Step 1 is around 190 and you got a 90. You might be a danger to patients without solid knowledge. Anything else you want to do with your life perhaps?

You're referring to a post from 2009. Also, the OP is clearly referring to the 2-digit score, not the 3-digit score - a passing score is a 75 in the old 2-digit system. I know it's silly, but a lot of IMGs used that system because they're accustomed to scores on a 100-point scale in their home countries (whereas in the US, we're used to weird scoring scales like the SAT, ACT, MCAT, GRE, GPA scale, etc.).

The OP clearly passed Step 1 and 2CK comfortably. He/she only failed 2CS, for which there can be a multitude of justifiable explanations - it's a weird format, and it's hard to know how thorough they want you to be in a 15-minute encounter.

Of course, all of this is irrelevant because the thread was resurrected by somebody who inexplicably decided to post in the psych forum to ask for advice on visas and USMLE courses.