Audition Rotations

[Sarah Marino]

Good Afternoon,

 

What is everyone doing in regards to scheduling audition rotations and not knowing what the Step 2/ Level 2 scores are? We have had a lot audition this year that don’t even meet our score requirements because all we see is PASS/FAIL for part 1.

 

Thank you!

[Honor Sanderford]

Hi,

We haven’t looked at any USMLE scores for our audition rotation. We start taking students in June and stop in November. There is no way we can require a step 2 score before we accept them.

 

Honor

[Leslie Hays]

At AHN, on our website, in the application section, its clear that there is a step 2 cut off score. This way there is no confusion for the applicant if they did not meet the criteria.

[Annie Detrick]

At UChicago we do not have a cut off for Step 2 for audition rotations (or residency interviews for that matter). They have to have passed part I.

Annie

[Kim Reising]

Here at the University of Cincinnati, we only require that they pass Step 1 (first attempt) for audition rotations.

Kim

[Laura Brown]

The pass/fail has made it difficult to schedule audition rotations because it acted like a pre-screening. If they saw they didn’t meet the minimum requirements, then they didn’t apply for a rotation. With something concrete in place that didn’t require a human reading CVs or Letters, I could just schedule them first come, first serve. Now the date opens and I’m blown up with 20-something applications in a week (we can only accommodate 5 to 6 a month). We’re a small program and historically only match those that rotate. So—I can’t first come/serve anymore because we have to have mini-app reviews to see if they’re a competitive applicant. Which means I’m harassing my PD to do more work. I feel like I need thalamus for rotations now too. /rantover

All that to say— It’s given me more work and I don’t want more work (lol).

[Laura Brown]

<p style=”text-align: right;”>The pass/fail has made it difficult to schedule audition rotations because it acted like a pre-screening. If they saw they didn’t meet the minimum requirements, then they didn’t apply for a rotation. With something concrete in place that didn’t require a human reading CVs or Letters, I could just schedule them first come, first serve. Now the date opens and I’m blown up with 20-something applications in a week (we can only accommodate 5 to 6 a month). We’re a small program and historically only match those that rotate. So—I can’t first come/serve anymore because we have to have mini-app reviews to see if they’re a competitive applicant. Which means I’m harassing my PD to do more work. I feel like I need thalamus for rotations now too. /rantover</p>
All that to say— It’s given me more work and I don’t want more work (lol).

[Mara Sweet]

We take 10 rotators/month for July-November. We usually have all spots filled by June 1, so there’s no way we could require our Step 2 score minimum for the away rotation like we do for interviews. We usually end up with 1 or 2 that are below our minimum score. We added a supplemental video application this year for our away rotators, which my reviewing faculty have loved.

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