Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates
ECFMG will close for the Christmas holiday at 2:00 p.m., Eastern Time (ET), in the United States, on Monday, December 23. We will be unavailable for calls and e-mails until we reopen at 9:00 a.m., ET, on Thursday, December 26.
Effective January 3, 2020, the arrival time for the United States Medical Licensing Examination® (USMLE®) Step 2 Clinical Skills (CS) testing appointments will be 15 minutes earlier than in 2019, due to additional security check-in procedures at the testing centers. During check-in, test center staff will scan examinees with a handheld or walk-through device designed to … Read More
The recommended United States Medical Licensing Examination® (USMLE®) Step 3 minimum passing score will change from 196 to 198. This change will affect examinees who take a Step 3 examination that begins on or after January 1, 2020. Examinees should see the full announcement for more information.
The Boards of the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG®) and its Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER®) held a biannual Stakeholder Engagement Forum on Friday. The Forum explored the impact of the closure of Philadelphia-based Hahnemann University Hospital, which occurred earlier this year and was the largest permanent displacement … Read More
Mitigating bias and eliminating unjustified patient stereotypes are important initiatives in teaching, learning and assessment. Concerns about bias have been raised in the academic literature, the media, among students and faculty at schools of medicine, and by patients. The United States Medical Licensing Examination® (USMLE®) program remains cognizant of these topics. Characteristics of a patient … Read More
Scores for all United States Medical Licensing Examination® (USMLE®) Step examinations will be released as regularly scheduled on Wednesday, December 18, 2019. Scores for all USMLE Step examinations will also be released on Tuesday, December 24, 2019. Only Step 2 Clinical Skills (CS) score reports will be released on Tuesday, December 31, 2019. All USMLE scores will be … Read More
ECFMG will close for the Thanksgiving holiday at 2:00 p.m., Eastern Time (ET), in the United States, on Wednesday, November 27. We will be unavailable for calls and e-mails until we reopen at 9:00 a.m., ET, on Monday, December 2.
Beginning in mid-2020, the United States Medical Licensing Examination® (USMLE®) Step 1 and Step 2 Clinical Knowledge (CK) examinations will include an increased number of questions assessing communication skills, system-based practice and patient safety, and legal/ethical skills and professionalism. The length of the testing days for Step 1 and Step 2 CK will not change. … Read More
ECFMG President and CEO William W. Pinsky, M.D., on October 24 joined Bennet Omalu, M.D., the Nigerian-born forensic pathologist who was the subject of the 2015 film Concussion, for a television and radio tour of cities nationwide to talk about the importance of international medical graduates (IMGs) to health care in the United States. From … Read More
A podcast featuring two members of the Invitational Conference on USMLE Scoring (InCUS) planning committee, Dr. Michael Barone, Vice President of Licensure Programs for the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME), and Dave Johnson, Senior Vice President, Assessment Services for the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB), is now available on the USMLE website. They … Read More
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