“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 ...

Enter your name exactly how it appears on the identification (i.e., driver’s license; passport) that you will present the day you take the exam. Your ID must also match your medical school records. If ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Researchers say ChatGPT is the first AI to receive a passing score for the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam, but it's still bad at math. Reading time 4 minutes Anyone anxiously holding their breath for a ...