The Whatever--Random Medical School Stuff

mcat2
Sun, 09 Feb 2014 19:58:51 +0000

The above few posts remind me of what DS told us quite some time ago: the whole class needs to travel to another in-state public med school where they will take some tests (likely they are not tested by the faculty of that school; rather, the examiner is likely some physician or somebody from some state government department related to the “state level licensing”.)

This is neither STEP-1 nor STEP-2 (not STEP-3 either.) He said it is important not to do too badly on it. He mentioned although most students would do well enough to pass (it seems the only requirement is to pass), once in a while there may be some student who may not do well enough, for whatever the reason it may be (maybe too lopsided toward a narrow research area or some other special interest, rather than being reasonably trained as a well-rounded doctor?)

I am not sure whether it has happened already or not for his class. Likely it has as he mentioned it quite a long time ago.

Regarding whether the med school tells the percentile of a student’s academic performance to a preclinical year student, DS once told us he had received such a “grade report” for his MS1 physiology test (likely his “final” at the end of the MS1.) But the grade is just for the student’s information only. No record is kept as all grades in the first 2 years are P and NP.

After the CC site was revamped, it gets harder and harder for me to visit the end of such a long thread unless I use a real computer (I rarely did recently.) Once in a while, I would be taken to the end of a thread, but most of the time, I would not. It is very unpredictable.