u/neonate87

My goal is to become a neonatologist. I’m wondering how important it is for fellowship to do residency at a level 4 NICU compared to level 3, and similarly if I should focus my signals on level 4 NICUs? It may be worth noting that I will likely have neonatology related publications before starting residency (I am currently doing a research year in neonatology with a department chair).

Similarly, I’m wondering if PDs give priority to residents that trained at level 4 NICUs? For fellowship, I would want to train at a level 4 NICU.

Went to a European med school. Applying peds. Wondering how many interviews other people that applied peds with a 220-230 score range got?

Went to a European med school. Applying peds. Wondering how many interviews other people that applied peds with a 220-230 score range got?

Been seeing a ton of, “Wtf was that!!!” type posts on here recently so figured I’d spread some good vibes and note that I took the exam today and overall thought it was a reasonable, fair exam, and the difficulty was more or less similar to other NBMEs.

My NBME scores were not incredible (bounced around in the 230s to low 240). I thought Step1 was harder (I walked out of there feeling much worse).

It is worth noting that the new format sucks (much longer HPI stems, it is not possible to read every word so you need to be fast at skimming and build an intuition on where to focus on). Similarly, because of the new timing format, I found it difficult to have time to review questions (with the old format I usually finished with 10ish+ minutes to review, now only 2-3 and that was really only enough time to change one question, because by the time you get to the next there is like 30 seconds left and you don’t want to panic and change your answer in such a short amount of time). But overall it was doabale, I never ran out of time before finishing the questions, it was reviewing thar is difficult.

Worth considering that i’m a native English speaker and generally faster reader so if English is your second language it might be difficult to read/skim fast enough for the long HPI questions and you might want to practice that.