10-28-2011, 07:13 PM
For those who have low scores.....
Say good bye to residency. Don't keep on trying year by year by wasting so much of your hard earned money. People might advice you to apply after improving your resume by doing some research and publishing some papers. The PDs will not look into your research and papers (even they are published in NEJM) unless your application finds its way to the PD table by virtue of scores. I am the living example. I have low scores with CS attempt. I have done research and published 7 papers (1st author in most of them) and submitted another 7 or 8 manuscripts. But still i do not have any IVs so far. Though I am taking this USMLE failure due to low scores as a personal insult, I have started thinking about other avenues like working in pharma companies, doing PhD, etc. When we all entered the MBBS, we were the cream layer of our corresponding state pool of candidates. By luck, hardwork and other reasons, some of us got triple 99 and are getting matched. But that does not mean that we, the low scorers, are inferior to them. May be God wants us to achieve in something else. Another important thing, if you do not have any person in US programs to influence your selection, then it is not worth trying.
Take this USMLE failure as a lesson, take revenge and show to the world that you can do more than US residency and fellowship.
Say good bye to residency. Don't keep on trying year by year by wasting so much of your hard earned money. People might advice you to apply after improving your resume by doing some research and publishing some papers. The PDs will not look into your research and papers (even they are published in NEJM) unless your application finds its way to the PD table by virtue of scores. I am the living example. I have low scores with CS attempt. I have done research and published 7 papers (1st author in most of them) and submitted another 7 or 8 manuscripts. But still i do not have any IVs so far. Though I am taking this USMLE failure due to low scores as a personal insult, I have started thinking about other avenues like working in pharma companies, doing PhD, etc. When we all entered the MBBS, we were the cream layer of our corresponding state pool of candidates. By luck, hardwork and other reasons, some of us got triple 99 and are getting matched. But that does not mean that we, the low scorers, are inferior to them. May be God wants us to achieve in something else. Another important thing, if you do not have any person in US programs to influence your selection, then it is not worth trying.
Take this USMLE failure as a lesson, take revenge and show to the world that you can do more than US residency and fellowship.