ABSTRACT The Medical Student Performance Evaluation (MSPE) is an important tool of
communication used by program directors to make decisions in the residency application …

Background In 2020, Step 1 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE)
changed to a pass/fail reporting. Step 1 has been one of the main factors for both inviting …

Methods: All SLOR forms submitted to our institution over a single application cycle were
extracted and analyzed. The United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 scores …

Objective Established primary goals of general surgery subinternships are improvement in
patient care and medical knowledge. However, the secondary gains such as obtaining …

Objective Performance inflation is rampant in applications to general surgery residency. The
medical student performance evaluation, transcript, and letters of recommendation (LOR) …

The recent consensus from the Invitational Conference on USMLE Scoring has
recommended a transition to a binary pass/fail reporting on the USMLE Step 1 exam to be …

Background This study aims to determine if there are correlations between clinical
performance and objective grading parameters for medical students in the third-year surgery …

OBJECTIVE Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous institutions converted medical
education didactics to electronic formats including both live teleconference didactics and …

GRADING for the United States Medical Licensing Examination® Step 1 is now Pass/Fail,
and residency programs may use clinical clerkship grades as an objective screening tool …

Introduction: The United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1 test evolved
into a key metric utilized by program directors (PDs) in assessing candidates for residency …