The Whatever--Random Medical School Stuff

mom2collegekids
Sun, 12 Jan 2014 11:04:45 +0000

*The only thing I think of that it could be is an NBME shelf exam, *

My son said something about it being a national exam and he may have used the above acronym.

although my school started using them for the first years the year after me)

That’s probably it.

Do other SOMs keep telling their students what quartile they are? Is that typical? I’m guessing that doing this gives the students a guideline as to how strong they’d be for the more competitive residencies?