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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

David Chen was doing his emergency medicine rotation in February when he heard the news: The notorious US Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1 test will move from a three-digit score to ...

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 ...