I can delay my eligibility once. If you extend, it must be to the next 3 consecutive months. And pay the full registration fee again. Is your eligibility period still active? If so, send an e-mail to the NBME to cancel your current eligibility period.
However, what if your eligibility period has passed? If it has elapsed, you will need to wait 7 calendar days to re-apply. Granted, Step 2 CS has a month eligibility. Once there, you should see the option to extend your exam. Apply here for a Step 1 or Step 2 CK extension. As your test approaches, you may be considering alternative plans. In theory, having more months to study can seem substantial. However, in practice, clerkships are busy, and there is little time to review preclinical material while on them.
Do you continually impress your friends with your diligence and discipline? Then you may be able to study for Step 1 during clerkships. This is a variation of the previous theme. Research is typically more flexible and requires fewer hours, however, than rotations. As such, you have a better chance of doing meaningful study. While not my first choice, studying for an exam during research often can work.
Note: You may need more months than you expect. People are bad at predicting how long their studying will take. This is particularly true for those who have something to overcome. People are bad at forecasting.
We have poor ideas of how long it will take to raise our scores. This is particularly true if we rush through our studying. The good news? There are always ways to take more time, and often without significant consequence. There are no right answers, only your own judgment of the pros and cons. Of course, students who are scoring or with two weeks to go already have their decision made for them, but those people aren't the people reading this column.
Usually, if you are hamstrung between moving your test back or not, it's because you're somewhere in the middle, in a gray zone looking for advice specific to your situation. This is where it's important to think about what specialties you're interested in, how anchored or undifferentiated you are between specialties, and how much location and prestige matters to you. I wanted to go into emergency medicine from day one of year one.
I cared little about prestige and location, only wanting to stay in the northeast, which houses dozens of programs. Some students wanted to be back in California with their families. Other students had absolutely no idea what they wanted to do, and were just simply terrified of having doors closed to them before they even got a chance to get into rotations.
Whatever your situation, consider your situation before making a decision about your exam date. Sitting down to have an honest conversation with yourself and your advisors about these topics will help you develop your risk tolerance. For our psychiatrist friend who had a goal score of and was okay at any program, his risk tolerance was very high. He assumed that in the last three weeks he would pick up a couple more points each week and likely settle into a score somewhere in the mids or lows.
Therefore, it wasn't overly important for him to demonstrate in multiple practice exams that he could score , so long as he thought he had a good shot. In this high stakes competitive world of orthopedic surgery, a would make her an instant underdog at some of the programs she had her eye on.
Where do you fit along this spectrum? When you sit down with loved ones and advisers and ask the question, "Should I move my exam back? Consider that before you decide to reschedule. Let Picmonic help you do that! Our visual study guides make learning and reviewing more efficient with short but impactful! Sign up for free and get learning the fun and efficient! When you know if postponing the USMLE is right for you, make a solid plan so you only have to postpone once.
Then, create a study plan you can stick to with Picmonic! The Picmonic home screen even provides recommendations on what to study next based on performance so you study what you need when you need it most. Step 1 Advice. By firstaidteamjd. Share on Facebook Facebook.
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