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Can anyone explain the impact this will have? Just a lowly M1 so I still doing have a lot of knowledge on STEP lol

You won't be wasting time and energy preparing for this worthless exam.

You get to save a lot of money and time because you won't be flying across the country just to take a nonsense exam.

You get to avoid so much stress because your career won't be threatened by an arbitrary, terrible, and unrealistic exam.
 
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I would like to preemptively ask that all pro-CS faculty/admin kindly maintain a non-patent mouthhole

I don't want to hear "participation trophy" crap

I don't want to hear "lowering our standards" crap

I don't want to hear "snowflake" crap

I don't want to hear "millennials" crap

Please and thank you
 
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If the alphabet soup is logical, they will announce any addition of items with at least a two year lead-time... that is IF they are logical
True. They did the same for Step 1. Hopefully we’re in the clear.
 
When I saw the news, I was honestly surprised. CS is prob a huge money maker for the USMLE, I assumed they'd just wait it out. But now that I think about it, the cost of maintaining their cadre of examiners was probably huge, I'm sure they have let them all go, and now the process of retraining everyone would be an enormous drain -- just not worth it any more financially.

I'd like to think they did this because it was the right thing to do, but we all know it usually comes down to $$.
 
I think maintaining some form of practical / in-person exam is fair for medical licensing purposes. The exam sequence is becoming weaker than it used to be. People have opinions. Yes. That's how forums work. How about that.
I agree with that last part, and my opinion is that you're wrong.
 
I think maintaining some form of practical / in-person exam is fair for medical licensing purposes. The exam sequence is becoming weaker than it used to be. People have opinions. Yes. That's how forums work. How about that.

Ah, the old "back in my day" argument. Always logical and strong.
 
I think maintaining some form of practical / in-person exam is fair for medical licensing purposes. The exam sequence is becoming weaker than it used to be. People have opinions. Yes. That's how forums work. How about that.

Except all US med schools already have this. I like the idea in DO forums of decentralizing CS/PE by having schools certifying results of passing the OSCEs.

Make CS/PE the screening tool for IMGs/FMGs only. Leave US grads out of this crap
 
Except all US med schools already have this. I like the idea in DO forums of decentralizing CS/PE by having schools certifying results of passing the OSCEs.

Make CS/PE the screening tool for IMGs/FMGs only. Leave US grads out of this crap

For real. My school has us do a **** ton of OSCEs. That's enough lol.
 
There’s no way they will just let 1500 (or however much it costs now) x 20,000 slide

it’s only a matter of time before they come up with something else
 
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He’s an IMG who I believe offers teaching service for one of the step exams. Exams being pass/fail or being outright eliminated isn’t in their best interest. It’s a Gimpel like situation here
 
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I thought CS was a good exam in general. Let me be the pariah here. "And we have free speech in this country."
Ha you are the guy who wrote the silly stuff in that old clerkships guide. This is perfectly on-brand. Incredible really.

Edit: I can't get over how hilarious this is. It's great insight to know this exam is made for someone such as yourself. The problem is that you really need to leave the rest of us functioning adults in America out of it.
 
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