<p>Just to chime in from the throes of my surg rotation: I’m there 5:30am-5pm M-F. Have had 3/3 weekends off and got the 4th off too. No complaints from me–my surg schedule is about as cush as they come, compared to my friends on trauma surg! (3:30am-6pm every day for 4wks–gross.)</p>
<p>I’ll have a week of nights 5pm-7am Sun-Thurs, ending Fri AM. Otherwise, no nights during my 8wk rotation.</p>
<p>During peds, D1 only had nights during her wards and NICU rotations. </p>
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<p>D1 recently got to be on the receiving end of the night shift. Emergency appendectomy at 5 am last Sunday. She diagnosed herself. </p>
<p>A family friend (a surgeon) stopped in to check on D1 while she was waiting in the ER for surgery. Said her diagnosis was right on the nose. Classic acute appendicitis. Showed up beautifully on her CAT.</p>
<p>The surgical resident on call that night got LOTS of practice that night. D1 was the 4th emergency appendectomy of the night. The one right ahead of her in the queue was a brand new IM intern who had been in town for a whole 5 days prior to his fun trip thru the ER.</p>
<p>And unbelievably (to me, at least), she went back to her clinical rotation on Tuesday at 6 am.</p>
<p>If anyone cares: I’m happy with my boards score, and it was just what I was expecting :)</p>
<p>Good news, Kristin!</p>
<p>Congrats, Kristin.</p>
<p>We still do not know how DS fares. Don’t tell, and we do not ask. Just try to be a “well-behaved” parent to a young adult son. Maybe he will be willing to share it with us this weekend. In the back of my mind, I am a little bit worried as he had had very little sleep the night before this long test. Hopefully he passes.</p>
<p>Congrats, kristin. Glad things turned out as well as you hoped.</p>
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<p>Congrats Kristin!! And even more kudos to you for posting step score news in the appropriate thread, unlike some people who apparently posted their kid’s news randomly. Threw a dart. Jeebus. 
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<p>We really do not know much about DS’s life in MS (in this case, his STEP-1 result), unlike when he was an UG student. He only tells us what he thinks he would like to share with us.</p>
<p>My wife puts herself in a “better” position. She does not bother to know what STEP-1 is in general, like what is the passing score or what is perceived as a good score. She said she had done her job and if she could not help in any way nowadays (other than writing checks), why should she need anything about it now? She will never visit this site or SDN site because of this. By being “dumb” in this area, DS is actually more relaxed when he talked to her (than me.)</p>
<p>Congrats Kristin.</p>
<p>What exactly is the national average? I thought it was a percentile score.</p>
<p>No. I think this year the average is 220 something, according to an SDNer.</p>
<p>They technically don’t give you a percentile even. You have to calculate it yourself from the mean and SD provided. The average has been creeping up slowly but surely, last year it was 224.</p>
<p>Congrats Kristin!!!</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>This year the avg is 227. Doing approximately national average will place you comfortably in the interquartile scores (trending toward the top of that interquartile range) for: anesthesia, emergency, gen surg, medicine, med-peds, neuro, path, peds.</p>
<p>Doing approximately average will put you above the interquartile scores for family, ob-gyn, and PM&R. </p>
<p>Doing approximately average will put you below the interquartile scores for dermatology, diagnostic rads, neuro surg, ortho, ENT, plastics, and rad onc. </p>
<p>My score didn’t close any doors I’m interested in, and that was part of the goal :)</p>
<p>(Note urology and ophtho don’t use the match so they’re not on this chart.)</p>
<p>Interesting. So there are specialties that don’t use match? Any others?</p>
<p>Nice. Congrats kristin.</p>
<p>I think those are the only 2 that dont use NRMP, but those specialties still use a match. Ophtho, for example, uses SF match. They interview earlier than others and match in Feb-ish</p>
<p>Optho and uro do an early match</p>
<p>Congrats kristin.</p>
<p>Based on your #733 post, the levels work out to:</p>
<p>top scorers: anesthesia, emergency, gen surg, medicine, med-peds, neuro, path, peds.
then: dermatology, diagnostic rads, neuro surg, ortho, ENT, plastics, and rad onc.
average scorers: family, ob-gyn, and PM&R</p>
<p>Is that right? What’s PM&R?</p>
<p>Physical medicine and rehab. The kind of docs who treat amputees and spinal cord injuries and such.</p>
<p>I think that looking at to NRMP OUtcomes for 2011, the order is:</p>
<p>top scorers: dermatology, diagnostic rads, neuro surgery, ortho, ENT, plastics, rad oncology
next: anesthesia, EM, gen surgery, med-peds, IM, neuro, path, peds
then: FM, OB/GYN, PM&R, psych </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nrmp.org/data/chartingoutcomes2011.pdf[/url]”>http://www.nrmp.org/data/chartingoutcomes2011.pdf</a></p>