How do medfags feel about USMLE Step 1 basically being eliminated? It is being converted into a pass/fail thing since too many students from particular ethnic backgrounds kept getting the lowest scores:
>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 but would instead become pass/fail as early as 2022.
>The announcement by the sponsors of the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) said the change was made in part to “address concerns about Step 1 scores impacting student well-being and medical education.”
>Students usually take the seven-hour exam after the second year of medical school. It is the first in a series of three exams that doctors-to-be must pass to become licensed physicians in the U.S. Initially designed to gauge how well a medical student can apply scientific concepts to the practice of medicine, in recent years the scores were used by some residency programs to screen potential candidates.
>Opinions are divided on reporting scores: Some think it makes sense and moving to pass/fail would be “root rot.” Others point out how striving for scores induced egregious stress and has changed how medicine is being taught.
https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/14/cheers-and-jeers-as-med-schools-step-1-test-becomes-pass-fail/
>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 but would instead become pass/fail as early as 2022.
>The announcement by the sponsors of the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) said the change was made in part to “address concerns about Step 1 scores impacting student well-being and medical education.”
>Students usually take the seven-hour exam after the second year of medical school. It is the first in a series of three exams that doctors-to-be must pass to become licensed physicians in the U.S. Initially designed to gauge how well a medical student can apply scientific concepts to the practice of medicine, in recent years the scores were used by some residency programs to screen potential candidates.
>Opinions are divided on reporting scores: Some think it makes sense and moving to pass/fail would be “root rot.” Others point out how striving for scores induced egregious stress and has changed how medicine is being taught.
https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/14/cheers-and-jeers-as-med-schools-step-1-test-becomes-pass-fail/
