drmamu
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Hai guys,
I feel honestly that most of the img give too much importance to the scores. I have very good scores-98/99. I am an img in the same boat with you. I am working as an extern in a hospital that is now conducting interview for residency. I am getting a chance to see and overhear many things. You should know that i am talking about my experience and not trying to downgrade anyone with very high scores. Most programs have a cut off for their interview selection for fmg only. They are usually of the order 215/85. Whatever score you have above that will not help you much. So once you have have the cut off score, assess yourself without the score- visa, communication skills, year of graduation, US clinical experience in a hospital that has residency in your field, LOR from a teaching faculty in your field of interest, gold medals, awards, journal publications, conference presentations, research paper awards, research experience, PhD degree and such stuffs. These are the only ways you can stand up in front of US graduates and not by the scores. If you think this way, you may be able to predict the number of interviews you are likely to get and the chance of you getting in a prestigeous program. Besides let us compare the scores with an entrance in a developing country.The best score that I have seen anywhere is 280/370. This corresponds to 75% aprox. That also, in an exam that has no negative marking. If you score this much in an All India Post Graduate Medical entrance Examination, you may not even qualify to be ranked. This is the true stand that we have in a compititive entrance exam which takes away one third of your positive score if you attempt a question wrong. ECFMG actually stamps us with a 99 and misguides us. I personally dont beleive that life will be any more easy just because we are in a different country or because somebody gives 99. This is a lesson that I learned from my short experience in US. I dont want to hurt or offend anyone. This is my view regarding what is going on. Just imagine that this is a 100m race and that local graduates get to start 75 meters in front of us. I agree that most of you people may be more experienced than me and have a better idea about things. But I honestly beleive that we have to decreases the importance that we give to scores for assessing our chances. Hope I dont offend anyone with very high scores.
Posted: Nov 22, 05 - 10:22
mmoghbelli
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#2I completely agree, as Ive seen
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