eturan
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Can people who passed or failed tell us the waiting periods they experienced?
I have a feeling that especially as the end of match application approaches and the ECFMG get clogged, they tend to delay the announcement of "FAILED" results longer to prevent reapplication pile-up, but provide the "PASSED" results quicker, so to enable the candidate to apply in time?
I Hate to assume things, but just trying to make some sense out of people's experiences with waiting periods and correlate them with test results.
Thanks
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| John321
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If your performance is at the high fail / low pass area,your patients notes are reevaluated,and so there is a delay
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| eturan
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John321,
Thanks for the comment. Oassis score reported this morning with the good news!!! PASSED.
What a relief!!! fuufff.
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| eturan
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Exam Experience; PASSED!!!
My wife is a foreign gradute IMG. She did not have time to study well for CS because she had left only about a week between Step 1 and Step 2CS exams, inspite of my dissapproval.
Believe it or not, she studied only about 1 day (from 10pm until the morning of the test day-Her test was in the afternoon). She was so stressed that she would fail because she was not prepared. I insisted (Based on what I read from these forums) that CS is a test to evaluate MDs behaviour/personal skills with the SP, less emphasis on his/her medical knowledge.
From 10pm at night till morning, in a hotel room, she practiced on me. I read the various cases from Kaplan CS book. I acted as the patient per the case. For example, I prepared the intial note on a scratch paper (Name/Age/vital signs etc at the door where she was waiting (in the restroom basically). She came in...I was yelling... "DOCTOR..I AM IN PAIN..I AM IN PAIN..."
We were able practice not all the cases till the morning, but as many and diverse cases as possible (Head, extremeties, stomach, chest, child/family councelling etc). We used flash light for the eye ecam, spoon for the ear, tangs for the hearing tool which I don't remember the technical name for it. Then she went to sleep.
After the test she said she messed up the first 5 SPs and her Patient Note was not well at all. She hand-wrote the PN instead of using the computer. But she said she never made any mistake with "acting" (Knocking the door, introduction, cover the legs, washing hand, transition statement, etc). She mentioned she did forget councelling in most cases, but managed her time well. Her English skills was not a problem.
I think the key here is PRACTICE...PRACTICE....PRACTICE. There are some useful web sites with videos that could help you to prepare for CS exams...you should watch those free videos on line for patient examination. If anyone interested, I can send you some links.
Bottom line, my wife PASSED....we are happy...Wish you all luck. If she did it with this ridiculously short time of study, so can you... Maybe she passed it right on the border line, in ortherwords, she got lucky. But our experience is that if you practice, use the usual nmonics for PN, you will be just fine.
Edited by eturan on 11/05/05 - 03:13 PM
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| mufurc
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What an amazing story! 
Congratulations to both of you!!
Good Luck with the rest of it!
Mufurc
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| xfwang2002
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Congratulation!!!! When and where did your wife take the test?
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| eturan
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She took the exam in Chicago on Mid September.
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| eturan
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Here are two links for exam videos;
http://www.echt.chm.msu.edu/VideoLect/viewvideos....
http://www.med-ed.virginia.edu/courses/pom1/video...
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| DR1221
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Thank you very much for putting the above links for review of exam videos. Helped a lot to quickly review physical exam maneuvers.
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| marwah
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eturan wrote:
Exam Experience; PASSED!!!
My wife is a foreign gradute IMG. She did not have time to study well for CS because she had left only about a week between Step 1 and Step 2CS exams, inspite of my dissapproval.
Believe it or not, she studied only about 1 day (from 10pm until the morning of the test day-Her test was in the afternoon). She was so stressed that she would fail because she was not prepared. I insisted (Based on what I read from these forums) that CS is a test to evaluate MDs behaviour/personal skills with the SP, less emphasis on his/her medical knowledge.
From 10pm at night till morning, in a hotel room, she practiced on me. I read the various cases from Kaplan CS book. I acted as the patient per the case. For example, I prepared the intial note on a scratch paper (Name/Age/vital signs etc at the door where she was waiting (in the restroom basically). She came in...I was yelling... "DOCTOR..I AM IN PAIN..I AM IN PAIN..."
We were able practice not all the cases till the morning, but as many and diverse cases as possible (Head, extremeties, stomach, chest, child/family councelling etc). We used flash light for the eye ecam, spoon for the ear, tangs for the hearing tool which I don't remember the technical name for it. Then she went to sleep.
After the test she said she messed up the first 5 SPs and her Patient Note was not well at all. She hand-wrote the PN instead of using the computer. But she said she never made any mistake with "acting" (Knocking the door, introduction, cover the legs, washing hand, transition statement, etc). She mentioned she did forget councelling in most cases, but managed her time well. Her English skills was not a problem.
I think the key here is PRACTICE...PRACTICE....PRACTICE. There are some useful web sites with videos that could help you to prepare for CS exams...you should watch those free videos on line for patient examination. If anyone interested, I can send you some links.
Bottom line, my wife PASSED....we are happy...Wish you all luck. If she did it with this ridiculously short time of study, so can you... Maybe she passed it right on the border line, in ortherwords, she got lucky. But our experience is that if you practice, use the usual nmonics for PN, you will be just fine.
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| dr_jazzy
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Very inspiring post.Thanks.
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| doc179
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very encouraging . congratulations. Thanx
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| ARJ
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Congratulation....
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| zerocool79
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oh my god.. i love posts like this... you started the night before!!! haha.. power to the procrastinators? though i don't recommend it... but it just shows the amount of study power and focus that one can have with a little boost of Eph and NEph heh heh.. and that extra release of Cortisol to help keep you up all night.
I'm taking the exam in 3 days.. a little nervous.. naturally.. not because the exam is hard but because the exam is something that most of us can't afford (literally) to fail.
congratulations!! and wish me luck also..
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| eturan
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So, by now, you should have received your score, hopefully a good one. How did you do?
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| kamikaetzchn
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Well, I´m nervous again and would like to know if it´s true. Are you more likely to fail the longer it takes for your score to be reported? I took my exam on the very last day of the testing period but my friend who took it with me got his passing score today and mine hasn´t been reported yet. Is this a bad sign?
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