Yeah. CK, med school prestige, and research. There is no way to remove stress from med school and competition from residency applications. This is just stupid. CK scores come so late students will not have time to change plans if their scores are not competitive.
SubI performance has been trending towards being the most important factor in neurosurgery matching and this seals the deal
Will program directors still use step 1 for an initial sort these next couple of cycles, while it’s still available?
What will this mean in terms of difficulty to match? What will there be more emphasis on? Will this make marching into neurosurgery more difficult? Will more people than before begin to gun for neurosurgery? It would be really helpful to get a rundown of how this would effect ones time in medical school and the difficulty of matching.
Thanks a ton
Curious to hear from the lurking PDs if this really will shift all the weight to Step 2.
So I'm enrolling in MD-PhD this coming year at a new school. Do you think that the PhD would give me an edge in the residency process? I already have 7 pubs, but I'm looking to do a lot more during grad school. Since my school won't be ranked by the time I graduate & match, how much would this hurt my application?