A Brief Update on USMLE Score Creep

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• @kirtar · 2024-07 · in “How the hell is the step 2 average so high?”

  It's basically just an extension of the same pattern that's been going on for a while (Sheriff of Sodium vid linked to timestamp with graph). The score interpretation guidelines also show us that the average was 246 in 2020-2021 and has gone up by 1 each year since. ▶ link

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• @bonewizzard · 2024-02 · in “Nepalis have a 1000 pages recall document with 95% of exam content...”

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• @Material_Kangaroo198 · 2024-02 · in “The cheaters who got +270 fucked all the USMLE takers”

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• @throwaway106574 · 2023-12 · in “Has anyone heard about Step 2 possibly becoming pass/fail in the future? Why is that a good thing?”

  This is an interesting discussion. There was this video from the ▶ sheriff of sodium a month ago discussing this very topic (around 35 minute mark). He's a PD who's very involved in the discussions of residency placement and he predict basically says it comes down to what the USMLE exams are designed for. Essentially the USMLE exams are supposed to be like the bar exam in that you are either competent or not, but PD'…

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• @karlkrum · 2023-12 · in “Your Welcome Boys”

  ▶ link Sheriff of Sodium has a good video on the topic

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