“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 ...

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 ...

Step 1 going pass/fail has been the center of attention for over a year, and the first class of students to experience this change are the current third-year students (at schools that still follow the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...