My son Asher was preparing for the biggest test of his life — the Step 1, a grueling eight-hour exam that second-year medical students must take before beginning their all-important clinical rotations ...

LaShyra T. Nolen is in her first year at Harvard Medical School. The atmosphere was electric last Wednesday as medical students across the nation celebrated the news that the United States Medical ...

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 ...

“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 ...