Does anyone know the grading system here-- P/F, internal ranking, AOA?
From the student handbook:
The Grading System:
All courses during the first two years of medical school are graded Pass-Fail. Clerkships and most electives in the final two years are graded Honors, High-Pass, Pass, or Fail with the exception being the required year 4 courses that are Pass-Fail.
These required year 4 courses include Health, Society and the Physician, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Advanced Medical Sciences, Advanced Cardiac Life Support and Pediatric Advanced Life Support. Occasionally a course or elective director will decide (with approval by the Medical Education Committee) to offer his/her course or elective on a Pass-Fail basis. Each course director establishes criteria for grading within his or her course or clerkship. Geisel’s Medical Education Committee suggests that each final grade be based on multiple explicit criteria, and not just a single final examination. While each course or clerkship sets its own criteria for grades, there is some course-to-course consistency. For example, within year 2, the criteria for passing are consistent across all courses. For the clerkships that use the NBME subject examinations, a score of 6th percentile or less constitutes a failure. 2017-2018 pg. 7
Your Student Academic Profile:
During the first two years, no formal rank list is generated. Student promotion from year to year is based only on the student’s total academic record (courses passed, courses failed, and courses passed but only marginally). At the end of the third year, it becomes necessary to generate a more detailed academic profile of each student that considers overall academic achievements, and helps determine standing within a class. For example, Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) the national medical honor society, begins to select members at the end of the third year, and students are eligible if they are within the top quarter of the class academically. Other criteria for election to AOA are then applied to students in the top quarter, including citizenship, leadership, character, and community service. During fourth year internship and residency programs, the AOA insists on seeing:
• Student’s overall academic record as documented on the academic transcript
• How grades are distributed within each clerkship
• How a student stands within his or her own class based on academic performance
At the end of year 4, the top quarter of the class is also eligible to graduate from Geisel with honors.
The relative academic position of each student is based on the number of honors in the six core clerkships in year 3.
accepted via call yesterday, forms were emailed today. There is hope!! Good luck to everyone still waiting
