The Whatever--Random Medical School Stuff

i_wanna_be_Brown
Mon, 10 Feb 2014 04:28:44 +0000

@somemom,

it really depends on the school. At my school for example, they do end up stratifying us into quintiles for the MSPE letter that goes out to residencies, and it’s based on a whole list of things, but grades in the 1st/2nd year are not part of that list. They figure Step 1 score is a good enough proxy for that anyway. At some schools, they do use 1st and 2nd year grades even though they are “pass/fail.” That’s why you always have to ask what exactly pass/fail means and how they put together the MSPE.

Our school MSPE is written in a way that it’s basically totally neutral except for the last sentence where there is one word that they change based on which of the five quintiles you are in.