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Till now I had four IM interviews and two more left. In one of my interviews, they put step three as a prerequisite and in the other they asked me about my plan about it, and answered will take before starting residency. I am totally fade up off this question
BTW I am a GC holder
I am not as such in a mood to take step three in this uncertain time, honestly I would like to know the out come of 2012 matching before taking step three.
I had virtually free time now and In case I made my mind to take step three... I would like to take it in a month time. Please would you share your take here. Thanks in advance
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If u write it in a month results will come out in March...by then rank order list would have been loong gone.
Dont rush it or spend sleepless nights over it at this point. Just hope for the best
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If you are older, you do need it!
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What do you mean?
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I will tell u what I know, based on my questions to the PDs of 11 pgms I ived at. 2 of the PDs frankly told me that having a decent step 3 pass will push ur ranking a few notches higher even if u are a GC holder [ the pgms btw were J1 pgms].Their reasoning was that it gets rid of one of the hassles the resident has to undergo. The resident can concentrate more on the work at hand than worry abt passing step 3 by PGY2. The rest of the J1 pgms I ived at cared little abt step 3 and they said that step 3 doesn't make an iota of a diff. That said I believe that having step 3 is always an advantage.
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Appreciated. That sounds cool
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Yeah I think it's too late to take step 3 and have it influence the ROL.
I personally would take it just because I met many residents during hospital tours who told me if I have the time, I should get it out of the way. Almost all IMGs I met wished they could've gotten it out of the way and are stressing about taking it during year 2.
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