FACT POLICE: The USMLE Step 1 Pass Rate

Описание: Have you heard that more students are failing the USMLE Step 1 exam than ever before, or that 25-50% of students are deferring their Step 1 exam because they’re unprepared to pass the test?

Me, too!

Thing is, there’s a lot of silly, sky-is-falling, and self-interested misinformation out there. So today, I’m back as the FACT POLICE, to explain how we should - and shouldn’t - make sense of changes in the pass rate.

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NOTES:

1. Wanna re-watch the original episode of FACT POLICE? It’s here:
FACT POLICE: Residency applicants and residency positions
   • FACT POLICE: Residency applicants and resi...  


2. Here’s the X post with the good ol’ days of Step 1 shower studying:
https://x.com/seandreyer/status/15146...


3. If somehow you missed my video on the USMLE cheating scandal, it’s here:
Mailbag: Wrapping Up the USMLE Cheating Scandal
   • Mailbag: Wrapping Up the USMLE Cheating Sc...  


4. And here’s the paper on the University of Michigan’s 14% deferral rate in 2015-2016:

Daniel M, et al. Perspect Med Educ 2019; 8(3): 187.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

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MUSIC:
“Clutch,” by Nicolas Major.