More on How USMLE Step 1 Scores Are Challenging Academic Medicine.

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Orthopaedic surgery resident, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York. He was a medical student, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, when this project was undertaken; Medical student, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado. Medical student, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas. MD/PhD student, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York. Vice chair for educational affairs, Department of Medicine, associate dean for continuing medical education and professional development, and assistant dean for curriculum, Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. Associate professor of clinical pediatrics and family medicine, associate dean for curriculum, and director, Program in Medical Humanities, Arts, and Ethics, Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

Published: May 2016

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