Opinion: Making Step 1 pass/fail is ‘root rot’ that will undermine the medical profession
Well-intended efforts to reduce pressure on medical students and increase physician diversity by eliminating grades and standardized test scores are likely to have the opposite effect.
Among the endless metrics for assessing the quality of health care, one that is exceedingly important for measuring physician quality is on the chopping block.
I’m talking about turning the , which all medical students take at the end of their second year of studies, into a pass/fail test. This proposed change was and has received almost no media coverage. Such a pivotal change, which I find troubling, merits greater attention and debate. If you, too, think it is an unwise are closed on July 26.
