Are United States Medical Licensing Exam Step 1 and 2 scores valid measures for postgraduate medical residency selection decisions?

WC McGaghie, ER Cohen, DB Wayne - Academic Medicine, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Purpose United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) scores are frequently used
by residency program directors when evaluating applicants. The objectives of this report are …

[HTML][HTML] A predictive model for USMLE step 1 scores

C Giordano, D Hutchinson, R Peppler - Cureus, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Purpose The United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1 plays a pivotal
role in one's residency application. While prior literature has investigated which factors …

A stepping stone toward necessary change: How the new USMLE Step 1 scoring system could affect the residency application process

S Salari, F Deng - Academic Medicine, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Score reporting for the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 will change from
a 3-digit number to pass/fail as soon as January 1, 2022. The shift is meant to prevent …

Pass/fail score reporting for USMLE Step 1: An opportunity to redefine the transition to residency together

GL Lin, C Nwora, L Warton - Academic Medicine, 2020 - journals.lww.com
The upcoming transition of the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 to
pass/fail score reporting has wide-ranging implications for the medical education …

Is USMLE Step 1 score a valid predictor of success in surgical residency?

E Sutton, JD Richardson, C Ziegler, J Bond… - The American Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Many programs rely extensively on United States Medical Licensing
Examination (USMLE) scores for interviews/selection of surgical residents. However, their …

USMLE Step 1 scoring changes and the urology residency application process: program directors' perspectives

LP Chisholm, BC Drolet - Urology, 2020 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE To capture the perspectives of urology program directors (PDs) regarding the
change in United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1 scoring to pass/fail …

Anticipating the impact of the USMLE Step 1 pass/fail scoring decision on underrepresented-in-medicine students

W McDade, MB Vela, JP Sánchez - Academic Medicine, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Abstract Three-digit United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1 scores
have assumed an outsized role in residency selection decisions, creating intense pressure …

Use of the USMLE to select residents

ES Berner, CM Brooks, JB Erdmann - Academic Medicine, 1993 - journals.lww.com
Many studies have examined the relationships between students' performances on the
National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) Part I and Part II examinations and their …

Using United States Medical Licensing Examination®(USMLE) examination results to predict later in-training examination performance among general surgery …

DR Spurlock Jr, C Holden, T Hartranft - Journal of surgical education, 2010 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between and predictive nature of United States
Medical Licensing Examination®(USMLE) Step 1, Step 2, and American Board of Surgery In …

The USMLE Step 1 decision: an opportunity for medical education and training

HJ Chaudhry, PJ Katsufrakis, AF Tallia - Jama, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
The announcement by the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) and the National
Board of Medical Examiners (NBME), on February 12, 2020, to change score reporting of …