Would you do this..

[iqe2010]

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Hello everyone, I hope you all had a good Thanksgiving.

I have a cousin in med school right now and she's currently studying for Step 1. After hearing about a few of her friends failing it while only studying at home, she decided to take an 8-week prep course. Anyways, one of her friends that failed it decided to just drop out of med school for a $45/hr job at a University.

My question is, if you failed the step 1, would you take a $45 an hour job? Or would you retake it?

 

[CougarMD]

Hello everyone, I hope you all had a good Thanksgiving.

I have a cousin in med school right now and she's currently studying for Step 1. After hearing about a few of her friends failing it while only studying at home, she decided to take an 8-week prep course. Anyways, one of her friends that failed it decided to just drop out of med school for a $45/hr job at a University.

My question is, if you failed the step 1, would you take a $45 an hour job? Or would you retake it?

Not everyone belongs in medical school. Sometimes, an event like failing out of Step 1 can be the catalyst for realizing this. It is much easier to point to the test and blame it for the drop-out, but it is likely that there are many other things going on here that you don't know about.

It doesn't really matter what anyone here would do or thinks that they would do. If you're not in medical school, you may not be able to answer that question because you haven't experienced the pressures yet or discovered how it is changing your life. And graduate school DOES change your life....almost always. You just have to decide if it is a change that you want or a change that you don't want.

It isn't for everyone. Don't judge this girl when you don't know her story.

 

[Mithril]

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[WorldChanger36]

No test decides my life. I would retake it.

 

[bravofleet4]

i'm just a first year and the material is overwhelming but i could only imagine someone quitting in the case where they were just constantly struggling with the material and by that I mean they're barely skating above pass or have failed multiple blocks for whatever reasons. i mean pass at my school is around 68 but you should never be that low when the average is like 84. i mean when my friend got a 60 on his final everyone became super concerned for him even though he did end up passing the block as a whole.

 

[swamprat]

Not everyone belongs in medical school. Sometimes, an event like failing out of Step 1 can be the catalyst for realizing this. It is much easier to point to the test and blame it for the drop-out, but it is likely that there are many other things going on here that you don't know about.

It doesn't really matter what anyone here would do or thinks that they would do. If you're not in medical school, you may not be able to answer that question because you haven't experienced the pressures yet or discovered how it is changing your life. And graduate school DOES change your life....almost always. You just have to decide if it is a change that you want or a change that you don't want.

It isn't for everyone. Don't judge this girl when you don't know her story.

And you are?

 

[CougarMD]

And you are?

That was my whole point dude.....did I answer the question? 🙂

 

[deleted357625]

lol that's kinda funny.

I guess everyone is not meant for med school but just because you fail it doesn't mean it's over...geez

 

[CougarMD]

MY point was not that this person failed and decided it was over.


My point was that maybe this person failed BECAUSE they had decided it was over. Everyone goes through a lot of crap before even getting into medical school and I believe that they are all academically capable of not failing Step 1.

If you fail, there may be other things going on. That's all I'm saying. That no one knows what this girl's deal really is, and to judge her is unfair.

 

[iqe2010]

I believe that if I fail step 1, then medicine definitely isn't for me. Step 1 is the first of many tests that I'll have to take in order to be a doctor, what does that say about me if I can't even pass step 1? And 45 an hour is good money.