Prevalence of non-communicable disease among displaced Rohingya in southern Bangladesh: a first look at a persecuted ethnic minority from Myanmar.

Background: In Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, 860 356 Rohingya living in refugee camps have experienced decades of persecution. Little is known about disease burden in this population.

Methods: A retrospective review of deidentified electronic health records (EHR) of 51 270 Rohingya attending two primary health clinics in Kutupalong and Balukahli from October 2017 to October 2019 was performed.

The Past, Present, and Future of the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 2 Clinical Skills Examination.

In January 2021, the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) announced the permanent suspension of their Step 2 Clinical Skills (CS) examination. Launched in 2004, the Step 2 CS examination was intended to ensure that physicians entering graduate medical education possess the necessary information gathering, clinical reasoning, and communication skills necessary to provide patient care. Although the requirement that doctors pass a clinical skills examination as a condition of licensure likely improved some elements of medical education and physician practice, the Step 2 CS examination was deeply unpopular among many medical students since its inception.