Worried about residency

[badskittles]

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Hi everyone,

I don't know why but I just came to the realization that I have been extremely poor in my performance as a medical student. I had to remediate two medical school classes and just realized that I accrued three pass with concern for professionalism (due to missing to turn in course evaluation surveys). I am really worried about the future residency matches, I am mainly interested in psychiatry, IM, and EM. Besides doing well on the Step1 and in clinical, what else can I do to offset the mess that I am in? Is there hopes of me matching into these residencies? Thank you all.

 

[AzBasRad]

The professionalism concern will hurt you more than the remediation. Talk to your deans and see if there is any way to take it off your record/MSPE.

Don't get any more professionalism concerns, and be the best student you can be from now on

 

[SurfingDoctor]

While those are all red flags, I’m more concerned that it took so many to realize something was amiss. That really is compounding things...

But to answer your question, yes, probably. You're probably gonna have to lower your expectation though unless there is some dramatic turn around. You're also gonna have to explain what was going on that led to so many red flags on your interview day and how you've made important personal improvements and make whoever you are interviewing with believe you in earnest.

 

[badskittles]

While those are all red flags, I’m more concerned that it took so many to realize something was amiss. That really is compounding things...

But to answer your question, yes, probably. You're probably gonna have to lower your expectation though unless there is some dramatic turn around. You're also gonna have to explain what was going on that led to so many red flags on your interview day and how you've made important personal improvements and make whoever you are interviewing with believe you in earnest.

Thank you for your honesty, medical school has been an isolating time where I haven't been able to reflect as I should have. But I'll check in with the Dean to discuss my performance and see where I can go from there