Hi all,
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I am wondering how detrimental a "pass" grade (my school is H, HP, P, F) during my 3rd-year required surgery clerkship is.
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It was my first rotation of the year, and the only reason I didn't honor the rotation was due to my shelf score (40th percentile). I took one year off for a research grant between M2 and M3 year, and to be honest, I forgot a lot of the pathophys that's on the surgery shelf.
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My clinical evaluations were great (attendings saying they'd take me into their residency program in a second, that I function at an intern's level, etc.). I've had a good mix of H and HP grades my first two years, and my Step 1 score is mid-240's.
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I know I need to honor medicine (which I'm on right now), and I ended up honoring psych and HP'ing OB. If I finish the year off well, and have a strong showing during my aways, will my surgery grade significantly affect my interview chances? A thought I've been considering is to take Step 2 CK early, so that residency programs won't think I'm an idiot...
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Comments/Suggestions? Am I just going crazy? (High probability...) Thanks in advance for your input!
I'm in a similar boat as you, but there is nothing we can do about it. I missed the "honors" designation by ONE point on the shelf exam. We have to score above 85 and I got 84, and then our evals have to be stellar in order to get honors, basically 4.8/5 on that stupid scale. So yea, missed it by one point, honored the rest of the core rotations, just have to go forward and blow away your ortho aways basically.
Hi all,
.
I am wondering how detrimental a "pass" grade (my school is H, HP, P, F) during my 3rd-year required surgery clerkship is.
.
It was my first rotation of the year, and the only reason I didn't honor the rotation was due to my shelf score (40th percentile). I took one year off for a research grant between M2 and M3 year, and to be honest, I forgot a lot of the pathophys that's on the surgery shelf.
.
My clinical evaluations were great (attendings saying they'd take me into their residency program in a second, that I function at an intern's level, etc.). I've had a good mix of H and HP grades my first two years, and my Step 1 score is mid-240's.
.
I know I need to honor medicine (which I'm on right now), and I ended up honoring psych and HP'ing OB. If I finish the year off well, and have a strong showing during my aways, will my surgery grade significantly affect my interview chances? A thought I've been considering is to take Step 2 CK early, so that residency programs won't think I'm an idiot...
.
Comments/Suggestions? Am I just going crazy? (High probability...) Thanks in advance for your input!
You may get asked about it, but it's not a dealbreaker. In fact, you don't actually NEED to honor medicine. I got HP on Surg and Pass on medicine and got in. With that said, a lot of programs do place a lot of emphasis on Med and Surg grades. So do your best on your medicine rotation.
board score in the 240's plus doing well on aways >>>> surgery grade.
