The USMLE (United States Medical Licensing Examination) Step 1 is a necessary hurdle that medical students must surpass, typically during their second year of medical school. Now, it will be pass ...

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 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 ...

The quantifiable nature of the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 score lends itself to secondary uses, including medical education assessment and evaluating students for promotion ...

I’m talking about turning the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam Step 1, which all medical students take at the end of their second year of studies, into a pass/fail test.