Step 2 CK scores for interviews

[346523]

Since there's no data yet on the cohort that took step 1 p/f, I was wondering if there's a general 2CK score range that may be used as a cutoff or threshold for interviews for the upcoming cycle? thanks

[Focus]

Depends on the program but probably the same that a given program used for step 1, which might be anywhere from 220s to 240+

[Guest]

Could a strong research output (20+ pubs) make up for a lower step 2 score (235)?

[Guest]

^^ "Strong output"... Lol you mean pointless case reviews?

[Guest]

^Don't hate the player, hate the game

[Guest]

^^ Would love to see the research stats of the person talking about pointless case reviews. Dude probably thinks he's a research chad for his 6th author Cell Press paper.

[Guest]

Think of those low impact pubs like you do surgery. You are closing the skin as a medical student so you can learn to perform the full case or write the big grant for a NEJM paper later on. That’s why programs care if you wrote something regardless of its impact.

[Guest]

^^ but why call it "strong research" like this idiotic OP? Just call it research. These entitled millennials/gen Z think that publishing a case study in a pay-to-publish journal makes them "strong researchers" lol, entitled to an R01 even.

[Guest]

If you're going solely off the research paper count, 20+ papers is "strong" for the match. The papers themselves might not be strong. Also, we have no information about the quality of OP's papers.

Also, we still need your stats, boomer.

[Guest]

^^ Why do these gen Z types always feel the need to boast about themselves? So you have below average STEP scores, but just because you managed to churn out 20 "publications" (including posters lol) you are a self-proclaimed "great researcher" entitled to choose between UCSF and MGH?? It doesn't make sense to me.