Step Up—Not On—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...

A simple five-step method for teaching clinical skills.

(Fam Med 2001;33(8):577-8.) Editor’s Note: In this month’s column, John H. George, PhD, of Penn State College of Medicine, and Frank X. Doto, MS, of County College of Morris, Randolph, NJ, describe a method to improve psychomotor procedure training for our learners. I welcome your comments about this feature, which is also published on the STFM Web site at www.stfm.org. I also encourage all pre...

Step 1 Step 2 F – Fully

Plastic Surgery In-training Exam Scores Correlate with US Medical Licensing Exam Step 1 and 2 Scores

1 PuRPOSe Plastic Surgery In-training Exam (PSITE) and American Board of Surgery In-training Exam (ABSITE) scores correlate with written board passage rates and are thus one proxy for production of competent surgeons. We hypothesize standardized test-taking to be a skill and previous success should predict future success. This study examines the relationship between performance on US Medical Li...