what do you guys think about the step 1 change to pass/fail? << LMAO, RIP. most applicants i know delayed Step 2 until after their away rotations and near interviews, it's going to be literally impossible. So many programs use Step 1 as an away rotation criteria as well so now we'll only have a smattering of clerkship grades, and at least my school doesn't give out honors until the end of the year once all the stats are in, so now it's gonna basically ALL be about school prestige and nepotism. GG NO RE
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Derm is gonna be a shit show. Prestige, honors, research
"tier" of med school just became a lot more important. Honoring clerkship doesn't matter since some top tier schools have P/F clinical grades...
at least in my MSPE, my raw/percentile for all shelfs are posted, so now its gonna be on that too. lmao arms race
grades will always trump shelf scores. Penn honors with 80% shelf will be more favorable than lower tier school honors with 95th percentile
What about the PHDs?
what about us? 4 more years to grind out Step 2 CK anki decks during our phd, get that 280 lmao
will be totally dependent on step 2 then!
Derm doesn't care a lick about step 2
they will now x2<also, this is totally false, had many interviewers comment on "how impressed they were" by my CK score (at multiple top 10 programs)
what was your step 2 score? Mine is pretty high and no one said anything.
yeah I anticipate that the new score screen will be step 2 and programs will just make having step 2 scores mandatory...
coming from a smaller school, I am SO happy I got to apply before this crap lol << say bye-bye to IMGs and DOs applying to derm #NewFilters// #hater #NoNeedYourNegativeComments You sound too happy about blocking DOs and IMGs// not at all, I think the change is going to bring even more nepotism to a field already full of it. I think the labels of MD/DO/IMG/FMG are irrelevant in your ability to be a doctor <chill, theyre not hating on DO's/IMG's. They're stating the likely downstream impact. The one objective measure that would help those applicants stand out is now out the window until Step 2 becomes the new step 1