_ Internal Medicine Kay C, Jackson JL, Frank M. Would this hold up in another discipline? Let’s look at the field with the largest number of residents… Most applicants have a similarly high rate of board passage, even with Step 1 scores that are below average, and the only candidates who are more-likely-than-not to fail the ABP exam are ones who failed Step 1.īut this is just one specialty. These data don’t exactly fit the usual narrative about why programs directors need Step 1 scores. There is no Step 1 score that portends a 100% ABP exam pass rate.Once the Step 1 score is >210, the probability of passing the American Board of Pediatrics certifying exam is ~90%.The relationship is strong, as shown below:īut look closely at both the x and y axes, because there are two important things to note: Ambul Pediatr 2007 7(2): 192-195.Īs the article’s title asserts, Step 1 scores did indeed predict board passage. USMLE Step 1 scores as a significant predictor of future board passage in pediatrics.
Pediatrics McCaskill QE, Kirk JJ, Barata DM, Wludyka PS, Zenni EA, Chiu TT.
Let’s start with my own field: pediatrics. Is it true? Or just another piece of USMLE mythology? Let’s go to the literature… Today, let’s do the same thing with this oft-repeated claim about specialty board certification. In the past, I pulled the references on the NBME’s claims about USMLE correlation with “improved practice.” I was unimpressed. The NBME has also highlighted this argument in advance of InCUS, where the future of USMLE will be determined in just a few short days. But even more insidiously, it’s often made in the academic literature, with little superscript numbers lending authority to claims about the high correlation between USMLE scores and board certification exams. This assertion is made frequently in conversation and on social media. Whatever failings they have, USMLE scores predict board passage. See, I’m a program director, and if my residents don’t pass their boards, my program will get shut down. When you suggest that we should make USMLE Step 1 pass/fail, you overlook one very important thing. There’s a persistent objection to making USMLE Step 1 pass/fail that goes something like this:
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