“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Among the endless metrics for assessing the quality of health care, one that is exceedingly important for measuring physician quality is on the chopping block. Over the past 20 years, medical schools ...

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 ...