Transitioning of the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 Examination to a Non-Numeric Pass/Fail Grading System: Toward Unbiased Residency Matching Process

Haley Ehrlich¹, Mason Sutherland¹, Mark McKenney^{1

2}, Adel Elkbuli¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, 14506Kendall Regional Medical Center, Miami, FL, USA.
² Department of Surgery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, US.

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Haley Ehrlich et al. Am Surg. 2022 Jan.

. 2022 Jan;88(1):156-157.

doi: 10.1177/0003134821995056. Epub 2021 Feb 11.

Haley Ehrlich¹, Mason Sutherland¹, Mark McKenney^{1

2}, Adel Elkbuli¹

¹ Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, 14506Kendall Regional Medical Center, Miami, FL, USA.
² Department of Surgery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, US.

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Implications of the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 Examination Transition to Pass/Fail on Medical Students Education and Future Career Opportunities.
Ehrlich H, Sutherland M, McKenney M, Elkbuli A. Ehrlich H, et al. Am Surg. 2021 Aug;87(8):1196-1202. doi: 10.1177/0003134820973382. Epub 2020 Dec 19. Am Surg. 2021. PMID: 33345588