“Are you OK?” a medical school classmate asked when I snuck back into the lecture hall. I had just learned that I bombed arguably the most important test of my life. I was not OK. I was employing ...

For the first time this spring, second-year medical school students left their initial board exams worried about just one factor: passing. The infamous 7-hour Step 1 exam is now pass/fail. Scores once ...

Scores for Step 1 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) will be reported as pass/fail, not as numeric scores, the two organizations that sponsor the test announced Wednesday. The ...

The Step 1 three-digit score has long been one of the main statistics residency programs used to rank applicants, giving this single exam the power of determining the rest of a student's medical ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The recent change in score reporting to pass/fail for the USMLE Step 1 exam is creating understandable concern ...

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, April 16, 2023/ EINPresswire.com / -- USMLE Step 1 Practice Test, a platform that offers practice tests for the United States medical licensing examination, has ...

Recent changes in a vital medical examination may change priorities for medical students, said UCLA faculty and students. The United States Medical Licensing Examination program, which oversees the ...

Medical students around the country cheered and jeered this week’s announcement that the results of a much-feared compulsory exam known as Step 1 would cease to be reported with a three-digit score ...