Only 14% pass Medical Qualification Exam, but it doesn’t matter

[Dolores]

In a truly surreal statement, the people that administer the only exam that allows doctors to apply for residencies, announced that of the 5,600 who took the test, only 800 passed with a score of 65 or above. That is 14% of the total. Last year, before the pandemic, only 20% passed.

As usual, there were rumors of exams being sold two days before the test date, but it hardly matters since the Ministry of Public Health officials say that this year the exam is not really required to opt for the different medical specialties (residencies) in public hospitals around the country.

In fact, there are 1,078 openings for these positions. And people in the Ministry of Public Health are pushing for everyone to apply, since the Ministry wants more doctors to specialize here. For now, the exam that requires months of study and preparation to perform well is basically meaningless. A...

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[drstock]

Scary!

 

[NanSanPedro]

Scary!

It's those tricky pancreases. They mix them up with the gall bladder every time!

 

[PICHARDO]

The most useless test ever!
Good doctors are not made from books and text retention, but actual practice in the field.

Instead the focus should be on math/fraction, preventive care and ER trauma execution profiles.

The rest is wasted on their sleepless nights and overworked neurons.

Just like the best auto mechanics can diagnose the problem from ear and touch, the doctors that will become good performers must build that rapport hands-on.

My sister told horrors from her time dealing with interns at some of the best US hospitals, with US medical graduates.

Some even tried to diagnose patients by the sheet, rather than observing the patient first, reason why the walk and visit them to make the rounds.

She said, that in most cases even doctors got corrected most of the times by the head RN on dosages for patients, given all factors involved.

Test? Ha!

 

[bob saunders]

Reminds me of the time I had pericarditis. They checked me into the hospital did a bunch of tests of me and said we will know tomorrow once the specialists can examine the results. The old French Canadian nurse I had, told me. I am not allowed to tell you , but you have pericarditis, seen it a million times, they will give you steriods starting tomorrow and you will feel relief within hours and be out of here in three or four days. She was right on all accounts.