Evaluation of a course to prepare international students for the United States Medical Licensing Examination step 2 clinical skills exam.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

United States (US) and Canadian citizens attending medical school abroad often desire to return to the US for residency, and therefore must pass US licensing exams. We describe a 2-day United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) step 2 clinical skills (CS) preparation course for students in the Technion American Medical School program (Haifa, Israel) between 2012 and 2016.

Methods

Students completed pre- and post-course questionnaires. The paired t-test was used to measure students' perceptions of knowledge, preparation, confidence, and competence in CS pre- and post-course. To test for differences by gender or country of birth, analysis of variance was used. We compared USMLE step 2 CS pass rates between the 5 years prior to the course and the 5 years during

SUBMITTER: Levine RB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5729209 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature