Matthew Fitz, William Adams, Marc Heincelman, Steve Haist, Karina Whelan, LeeAnn Cox, Uyen-Thi Cao, Susan Hingle, Amanda Raff, Bruce Houghton, Janet Fitzpatrick, Ryan Nall, Jennifer Foster, Jonathan Appelbaum, Cyril Grum, Anna Donovan, Stuart Kiken, Reeni Abraham, Marti Hlafka, Chad Miller, Saurabh Bansal, Douglas Paauw, Cindy J Lai, Amber Pincavage, Gauri Agarwal, Cynthia Burns, Horatio Holzer, Katie Lappé, Viju John, Blake Barker, Nina Mingioni, Deepti Rao, Laura Zakowski, Chayan Chakraborti, Winter Williams, William Kelly
BACKGROUND: Residency program directors will likely emphasize the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) Step 2 clinical knowledge (CK) exam more during residency application given the recent USMLE Step 1 transition to pass/fail scoring. We examined how internal medicine clerkship characteristics and NBME subject exam scores affect USMLE Step 2 CK performance. DESIGN: The authors used univariable and multivariable generalized estimating equations to determine associations between Step 2 CK performance and internal medicine clerkship characteristics and NBME subject exams...
July 2022: Journal of General Internal Medicine