medschoolmanic said: I don’t get why they give you only 10 minutes. I thought they were supposed to be 14? Best of luck either way! I don’t think SP encounters are reflective of how good of doc anyone is :P bunch of BS hoops to jump through
they are supposed to be 14 mins but for whatever reason we were on a compressed format
spacechicks said: Calm down, breathe, relax! You’ve got this! If you have practiced the different scenarios (review book) and have done fine with H&Ps on rotations you will be ok for the PE. Don’t take the PE lightly, but don’t stress yourself out either.
yeah I heard the case review book for 2 days should do the trick. I guess if I don’t have time to do a neuro/MS exam I can at least verbalize that I would have liked to. I did a full neuro on a real patient s/p stroke last month and it probably took 10 minutes by itself.
ladykaymd said: SP exams are really ridiculous. I always got killed on the box checking for our standardized exams but managed to pass Step 2 CS quite easily – so I really don’t think they’re super predictive of real life or even the real exam.
it’s funny because I know I’m pretty good at this in real life, and I got better by picking up tricks of the trade from residents and attendings. so it’s weird to have to regress and be extra deliberate, which makes the encounter incredibly inefficient.
captainmdphd said: If PE is anything like CS, it’s a legit joke. By no means is the history or physical complete. Fuck, I did well and I forgot to wash my hands in like three rooms.
that’s so weird, I’ve heard of people failing for not washing up. goes to show how much of the test is based on arbitrary human opinion. one of the comments was like “wanted to order a bunch of tests, physical exam not thorough”... dude I can glean a lot more from your history than the physical, and anything I find on the physical I probably still have to verify with imaging or labs. history > *
thanks all! I think I was more pissed about the prospect of having to write up a ridiculous reflection paper in the middle of board prep, especially given the arbitrary cutoffs and nonsensical “tracks” that determine what your remediation is. I mean... the numeric scale is out of five (I think... it doesn’t really say), but the cut-off for one of the categories is a 75% average. which means almost all of my ratings have to be 4 or 5 to skip this process.
I talked to my friends and I think we all decided if the school wanted us to remediate, they could get off their asses and tell us directly.
