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 ...

Medical students around the country cheered and jeered this week’s announcement that the results of a much-feared compulsory exam known as Step 1 would cease to be reported with a three-digit score ...

For the first time this spring, second-year medical school students left their initial board exams worried about just one factor: passing. The infamous 7-hour Step 1 exam is now pass/fail. Scores once ...

The Step 1 three-digit score has long been one of the main statistics residency programs used to rank applicants, giving this single exam the power of determining the rest of a student's medical ...