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MS4 at @BrownMedicine. Okie. Past stops at @LSEHealthPolicy, @WUSTL. Writer (portfolio👇🏽). Tweets my own.
Feb 16, 2020 23 tweets 10 min read
This week, the @NBMEnow announced that the USMLE Step 1 would be moving to P/F as early as 2022. Folks far smarter than I am like @jbcarmody and @BenMazer have had a lot to say about this seismic change in US #MedEd, but I wanted to offer some other thoughts on this. 1/ For those of you unfamiliar with medical education, Step 1 is a basic sciences exam often taken after the 2nd year of med school. It’s original (and really still, primary) purpose is to serve as one of 4 licensing exams to practice medicine in the US. 2/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USMLE_Ste…