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Took Step 2 Clinical Knowledge today...much easier than Step 1 in my opinion and was a much shorter day (at least for me) even though there are more questions on Step 2 (8 blocks of 46 questions compared to 7 blocks of 50 on Step 1).
I studied a decent amount for it leading up to it, but mostly focused on my weak areas (derm, rheumatology, hematology, and nephrology) in the last week. Of course, as is always the case, I ended up with very few questions in any of those areas (which really surprised me about rheum).
I think I did fairly well, students from my school have historically done significantly better on Step 2 than on Step 1. Some of my friends have gained as many as 38 points on Step 2. I'm expecting an increase and would be disappointed if my score didn't go up at least 10 points. 15 would be solid and 23 would be awesome. But in the grand scheme of things, it's not going to make that big of deal.
Dean's Letters were released on Saturday, so the final say from programs will be coming shortly. Have had a couple rejections in the past couple days. None were surprising or unexpected. Still waiting two more programs...including the place I am most hoping to hear from...but at this point I realize the timing of things and so it won't be a surprise if they reject me. I am very excited about a number of places I have interviews, so I'm not worried.
First interview is on Tuesday. Peds is a nice specialty to interview for - every place has a resident dinner the night before, and all my programs are paying for my hotel rooms. This is not the case for some of my friends, so I'm thankful. It makes things much easier and much cheaper.
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