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Middling Grade in Radiology Rotation-Am I Screwed?
Hello,,
US-IMG in a 6 Year European Medical School.
Basically, my school grades on a scale of 2-5. 2 is fail. 3 is pass. 4 is in the middle, 5 is top.tldr; I got a 4 in my required Radiology clerkship. How badly is this going to hurt me applying for a Radiology residency in the US?
Longer story–I’m in the third year of a six year program. We just finished a radiology class–not really a rotation, just a class. On the syllabus it’s called Radiology, and we will not have another class with that title. I will have opportunities to do Radiology electives in the next three years, however.
I don’t know what happened, I am in the top 25% of my class, usually the top 10-15% in any given exam. This time, I screwed up, ended up around the median point of the students, and ending up with a 4 out of 5–passing is a 3. I really have no excuses. I just didn’t perform well on the test. I’m beating myself up over it, but now to my horror I realize this is my Radiology Clerkship, and I only did middling well on it.
Am I totally screwed? How will a US PD interpret this?
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3 Replies
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Honestly, they probably won’t even consider at all.
Test scores will carry the bulk of the weight as to whether or not to invite for interviews.
A middling score on a rotation, even in radiology, might not even make the radar for application reviewers.
Considering making up for it with a superlative letter of recommendation from a known/ high ranking radiologist.
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Thank you so much for your reply.
I am already in contact with a Radiology research group at my university, and they have a project for me. I hope this middling grade (that actually puts me at the bottom of the class in this particular rotation) will go unnoticed by the research group.I still have 2.5 years before I put in Residency applications, so I think that is time to get some papers, and do some US rotations–and maybe a good grade on that will make up for it.
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