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re: Standardized Tests (ACT,SAT) were supposed to be equalizers
Posted on 11/19/22 at 11:43 am to armsdealer
Posted on 11/19/22 at 11:43 am to armsdealer
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Meh, the vast majority of licensing tests are pass/fail. Nobody is asking their doctor their GPA or what they made or a board exam
The issue with Step 1 going pass/fail is that scores were being used as a metric by residency programs in the evaluation of candidates for training programs. Those DO matter. What Harvard did was to remove a discriminator against underperforming medical students getting into competitive training programs. I think that I want my neurosurgeon to be the best available and not one chosen on social issues and that is exactly what is now happening. The “social programming” was more difficult when there was a score to discriminate between otherwise equal candidates.
This post was edited on 11/19/22 at 11:46 am
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Posted on 11/19/22 at 12:58 pm to DocHolliday1964
I'm split on the P/F discussion - on one hand, students have to be stratified by one metric or another. With p/f step1, I really think all emphasis will be placed on step2, which will be associated with its own issues (no 'hard stop' until the end of 3rd year for students applying to competitive specialties. I've noticed a lot of people planning on applying to super competitive surg subspecialties who I think would have been filtered out by now to more reasonable expectations with a scored step1).
On the other hand, the information tested on step1 became some esoteric as to be useless in the clinical setting.
All in all, I think I would have benefited from a scored step1, and would have preferred to have that option.
On the other hand, the information tested on step1 became some esoteric as to be useless in the clinical setting.
All in all, I think I would have benefited from a scored step1, and would have preferred to have that option.
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