cadavar
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I have 4 IVs so far 2 university one advance one medicine,,, and one community and one community affiliated with univeristy,,, I applied with my cs failed and got all IVs, i took exam again and i failed second time the stupid cs,,, i don't kow what to do next should i take exam again,, and go ahead with the rest of my IV and try to get over with cs, or should forget about this year match cancle my ivs and, pland for next year,,, i did not choose automatic transmission of my scores and the programs know the fact that i already failed,,, but not that i refailed,,, just somebody give me advise please? and what are the chances of me getting matched with two attempts?
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| cadavar
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| dearlife
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sorry to hear that buddy... i will recommend to take th exam again. try joining kaplan step 2CS Live classes if you can afford. I know its hard but dont lose heart and take the exam again.
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| catmd04
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Nobody cancels his/her interviews that he/she already had in your case. This year is really tough and hard to get ivs. Try to retake the CS ASAP. If you match this year, that's good. If not, try next year. Why you want to give up now?
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| C5a
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try to aggresively prematch into a program, because you cannot even go through the match if step 2cs isn't reported as a pass by feb 27,2008. if you prematch, and sign a contract, you can at least ensure a spot outside the match, and take it next year before residency starts in july.
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| medicus_81
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don't give up man! fight because otherwise you are looking at another lost year...I think the biggest challenge for you is to find a date for CS , I think the earliest now is in May 2008...I agree that prematch would be the best option!
btw, how did the interview at GWU in DC go? can you please post your experience in the IM forum? It would be greatly appreciated!
Good luck and keep us posted!
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| CocaCola
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C5a wrote:
try to aggresively prematch into a program, because you cannot even go through the match if step 2cs isn't reported as a pass by feb 27,2008. if you prematch, and sign a contract, you can at least ensure a spot outside the match, and take it next year before residency starts in july.
great advice!
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| cadavar
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thanx guys at least one of programs offers my prematch if i don't try to be picky,,, to be honest my wise friends i did not they will offer prematch without cs,,,, from tomarrow i will start a two prong offensive, get a date as early as possible and approaching programs to see if they offer me prematch,,,, are you sure that any program will offer prematch without cs result????????
thank you for your good advice, if that is an oppertunity i think i can grab it!
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| cadavar
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Medicus for your answer for that, i think i have been only one who had iv there, program is nice, they don't put you on spot light,,, they do not ask you any think medical the schedule is: you arrive at the hospital at 0730 they give a badge with your name and your medical school on it. I was only IMG there, all have been from very big name universities in US. @ around 0800 they take you to the morning report,,, they have a case presentation,,,, chief resident write on the board, every body give his/her impression. After the case they look at labs and ct scan via a projector,,, then they show MKSP case for each resident on projector and each resident will pick an answer. the interesting thing is that the PD is in the morning report room. After that we had a breakfast, and then went to interview. each person was assigned for two interviewer. The interesting part was that the interviewer did not know anything about you but your name. They let you speak and you are leading the interview in the most of the part they are asking you about your goals and ambitions in a very friendly manner some times i forgot that i am in interview,,,, moral of the story the interviewers are assigned to answer your question. After that you do the lunch with the residents,,, you ask them all questions you want,,, they were very happy,,, and again i did not see any IMG among them. After we finished the lunch the chief resident toke us to the hospital tour,,, hospital is nice,,, and they told us that they have dick cheney as their guest in the cardiac ward all the time,,, and they said don't surprise to see senators as well as homeless pts,,, and other officials in the ER. Over all it is a dream hospital,,, at the end i saw only one foreign graduate,,, he said he is doing MPH in the hospital, and the whole tuition cost is paid through the hospital,,, and the other think i heard is now 3rd year residents do moonlighting in this hospital.
i wrote this because nobody has posted any experience about the hospital, i hope this will help future applicants to have less anxiety, before IV
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| medicus_81
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cadavar,
thank you so much for posting your experience! I have my iv with them in early Jan...I know they are not taking many IMGs at all - I know of 2 FMG interns who started there but to my knowledge they were familiar to the program from before...If you don't mind I will copy your message to the IM iv experience forum.
I am not sure if programs would offer you a prematch without cs, I think the offers are usually extended to applicants with more or less complete applications..but this is only from "hear say". I don't knoe how many IVs you have but be as aggresseive as you can and may the best happen! Good luck to you!
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| cadavar
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Thanx, sure you can paste this form in IM section.
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