Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kristen Moon is an entrepreneur covering college admission strategies. Medical students are under immense pressure not only to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The recent change in score reporting to pass/fail for the USMLE Step 1 exam is creating understandable concern ...

Enter your name exactly how it appears on the identification (i.e., driver’s license; passport) that you will present the day you take the exam. Your ID must also match your medical school records. If ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The quantifiable nature of the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 score lends itself to ...

It is strongly recommended that students keep a permanent (PDF) copy of the USMLE score reports from the NBME website once they become available. Your score report, once released to you, will be ...

Starting July 1, medical students who take the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 2 Clinical Knowledge (CK) test will just have to be a little bit smarter. That's because the USMLE ...

The purpose of step : One is to test ones understanding and application on of basic science knowledge. It is a one-day computer based test that can be taken at the end of the second year of medical ...

Scores for Step 1 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) will be reported as pass/fail, not as numeric scores, the two organizations that sponsor the test announced Wednesday. The ...

“Are you OK?” a medical school classmate asked when I snuck back into the lecture hall. I had just learned that I bombed arguably the most important test of my life. I was not OK. I was employing ...

In February, we reported on a cheating scandal that resulted in U.S. Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) scores being invalidated for hundreds of Nepali test takers, some of whom later filed a class ...