Farewell to the Step 2 Clinical Skills Exam

The Step 2 Clinical Skills exam.

To the Editor: We agree with the Perspective article by Lehman and Guercio (March 7 issue)1 that national clinical exams are expensive. We also agree with First et al.2 that such exams positively shape the educational and assessment programs of medical schools, promote standardization of accreditation criteria, and provide an essential service to the public by filtering out candidates in need o...

Evaluation of a course to prepare international students for the United States Medical Licensing Examination step 2 clinical skills exam

PURPOSE United States (US) and Canadian citizens attending medical school abroad often desire to return to the US for residency, and therefore must pass US licensing exams. We describe a 2-day United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) step 2 clinical skills (CS) preparation course for students in the Technion American Medical School program (Haifa, Israel) between 2012 and 2016. MET...

The effect of clinical exam on midwifery students` confidence in clinical skills

Introduction. The aim of medical education is to produce competent , caring physicians. Self-confidence is another attribute often considered desirable for physicians. Confidence is a key to developing the sense of quantity that has been long recognized as a desirable characteristics of physicians, and confidence has a subjective marker of competence, An analytic descriptive survey was carri...

A Farewell to Air Gaps, Part 2

the effect of clinical exam on midwifery students` confidence in clinical skills

introduction. the aim of medical education is to produce competent , caring physicians. self-confidence is another attribute often considered desirable for physicians. confidence is a key to developing the sense of quantity that has been long recognized as a desirable characteristics of physicians, and confidence has a subjective marker of competence, an analytic descriptive survey was carried ...