# I passed! Hot damn!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed-hot-damn/26423>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 22, 2000, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed-hot-damn/26423 "2000-07-22T01:56:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![struuter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2000, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed-hot-damn/26423/21 "2000-07-24T19:07:09Z")

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Congrats! And now, let me get this straight, if we want to play a game of SDMB ‘Doctor,’ are you the guy to call? 😉

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**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2000, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-passed-hot-damn/26423/22 "2000-07-24T19:19:53Z")

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This one doesn’t quite make me a doctor yet–it just means that I’ve learned enough in the first two years of med school (the sit-on-your-ass-with-a-textbook years) to go on to the other two years (the clinical years) and actually start learning something.

Still, it’s a big deal, especially for me. This is one of the first genuine victories I’ve had in med school.

In other news, I got my actual score, and I beat the average! Just by one point, but that is a really good thing. Since I want to do a double residency in the two least competitive specialties (family practice and psychiatry), all I really needed was to pass. (For more competitive specialties you want to beat the average; surgeons and the like want to beat it by a standard deviation.)

Thanks for all the kind words.

Dr. J

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