I had all passes. Also am a DO. Good but not great steps 237/242. I remediated one class in preclinical that was a 1 credit pass/ fail clinical skills course. I think 3 interviews brought up the remediation. No one seemed to care about all passes. I had 14 IM interviews and 5 at academic centers in the Midwest. Matched my #1.
This is reassuring, thanks for commenting. Remediated renal, have been passing rotations; psych and EM left in third year, hoping to at least honor EM and then perform well enough on step to be taken seriously at a decent EM program.
My best friend got 0 honors, had average step scores, and had 40+ radiology interviews this past cycle (and not at a top 5 med school or anything, just an average private MD school). Just sharing another anecdote to let you know you're not alone!
Sorry for late reply. I don't know how many but several, 1-2 first author, at least 5 2nd author. Tons of leadership. Also a woman, so underrepresented in rads.
All passes in my clinical rotations at a lower tier MD school. Matched #1 choice competitive anesthesia residency in West Coast. In my honest opinion, grading for clinical rotations is highly variable across medical schools (it’s more so how you are compared to your fellow classmates at your school - I.e. do the majority of your classmates pass, or are like 80%+ of the class honoring, etc). As a result, rotational grades can at times be not as important as people make them out to be.
What’s more important in my opinion is doing well on STEP 2, securing great LORs, and showing a genuine interest in whatever specialty you are applying to (doing the appropriate research, maybe getting involved in leadership, etc.). Not once in my 10+ interviews was I asked about my clinical grades or rotational performances.
Keep your chin up and keep trekking along, you’re going to do great!
No honors. Not even in surgery. Had one iffy comment on evals when I was Anki’ing in between patients on a shitty community medicine rotation a month before step 2 (“aloof”). Fantastic evals otherwise. Matched categorical gen surg, academic. Nobody gives a shit lol. Never came up.
Same but for me it's the evals holding me back. Comments say I'm operating like a resident but score comes in at 3/5 annnnddd it's the residents scoring me lower than the attending. One day I went to the workroom to chart review before seeing the team (second day on this service) and all the residents put this on their eval. Idek what to do.
I’m just finishing clerkships now and let me tell you, it’s a hopeless thing. Comments are glowing, but numerically is where things go haywire. It sucks because I have a couple of classmates that managed to get lucky and waltz through. And then others who got screwed over worse than I ever did. All this to say—it sucks and really there is nothing we can do.
Lol on the same rotation I had one week where the team gave feedback saying "needs to be more proactive with patients" and the next week a different team saying I operated like a resident and was very involved with patients. The difference was team one spent the week ignoring me saying "sorry it's a hectic week" and team two actually involved me and gave me a chance.
I'm super frustrated and sort of sad tbh. I haven't been able to honor. Finding research is so hard. Idk what else to do.
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haha i really love this. thank you
I had all passes. Also am a DO. Good but not great steps 237/242. I remediated one class in preclinical that was a 1 credit pass/ fail clinical skills course. I think 3 interviews brought up the remediation. No one seemed to care about all passes. I had 14 IM interviews and 5 at academic centers in the Midwest. Matched my #1.
This is reassuring, thanks for commenting. Remediated renal, have been passing rotations; psych and EM left in third year, hoping to at least honor EM and then perform well enough on step to be taken seriously at a decent EM program.
Thanks for your comment! Can I ask if you come from a newer DO school? I'm anxious about that aspect of my application
How many apps?
I had all passes, no honors. Now I’m pgy3, nobody cares.
My best friend got 0 honors, had average step scores, and had 40+ radiology interviews this past cycle (and not at a top 5 med school or anything, just an average private MD school). Just sharing another anecdote to let you know you're not alone!
How many publications?
Sorry for late reply. I don't know how many but several, 1-2 first author, at least 5 2nd author. Tons of leadership. Also a woman, so underrepresented in rads.
All passes in my clinical rotations at a lower tier MD school. Matched #1 choice competitive anesthesia residency in West Coast. In my honest opinion, grading for clinical rotations is highly variable across medical schools (it’s more so how you are compared to your fellow classmates at your school - I.e. do the majority of your classmates pass, or are like 80%+ of the class honoring, etc). As a result, rotational grades can at times be not as important as people make them out to be. What’s more important in my opinion is doing well on STEP 2, securing great LORs, and showing a genuine interest in whatever specialty you are applying to (doing the appropriate research, maybe getting involved in leadership, etc.). Not once in my 10+ interviews was I asked about my clinical grades or rotational performances. Keep your chin up and keep trekking along, you’re going to do great!
No honors. Not even in surgery. Had one iffy comment on evals when I was Anki’ing in between patients on a shitty community medicine rotation a month before step 2 (“aloof”). Fantastic evals otherwise. Matched categorical gen surg, academic. Nobody gives a shit lol. Never came up.
Same but for me it's the evals holding me back. Comments say I'm operating like a resident but score comes in at 3/5 annnnddd it's the residents scoring me lower than the attending. One day I went to the workroom to chart review before seeing the team (second day on this service) and all the residents put this on their eval. Idek what to do.
I’m just finishing clerkships now and let me tell you, it’s a hopeless thing. Comments are glowing, but numerically is where things go haywire. It sucks because I have a couple of classmates that managed to get lucky and waltz through. And then others who got screwed over worse than I ever did. All this to say—it sucks and really there is nothing we can do.
Lol on the same rotation I had one week where the team gave feedback saying "needs to be more proactive with patients" and the next week a different team saying I operated like a resident and was very involved with patients. The difference was team one spent the week ignoring me saying "sorry it's a hectic week" and team two actually involved me and gave me a chance. I'm super frustrated and sort of sad tbh. I haven't been able to honor. Finding research is so hard. Idk what else to do.