Medical students are under immense pressure not only to pass, but to excel at the exam, as it is the biggest deciding factor for selecting applicants to interview for residency positions. However, all ...

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 ...

Step 1 going pass/fail has been the center of attention for over a year, and the first class of students to experience this change are the current third-year students (at schools that still follow the ...

2021 ARRS Virtual Annual Meeting research finds as USMLE Step 1 transitions from numerical score to pass/fail, program directors likely to rely on Step 2 Clinical Knowledge scores as objective, ...

Should the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 3 be scored? Members of the American Medical Association (AMA) don't think so, and passed policy to that effect during the annual House of ...