Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates
Beginning January 1, 2015, the rescheduling fees for the Step 2 Clinical Skills (CS) examination will change. If you have a scheduled testing appointment and are unable to take the exam on your scheduled test date or at your scheduled center, you may cancel your scheduled testing appointment and reschedule for a different date and/or center, … Read More
Updated information materials for the Step 2 Clinical Knowledge (CK) examination have been posted to the USMLE website. They include: USMLE Step 2 CK Sample Test Questions booklet (PDF) USMLE Step 2 CK Content Description and General Information booklet (PDF) Examinees should read the full announcement on the USMLE website, and continue to monitor the … Read More
ECFMG is pleased to share the news that Data Commons, LLC—an information-sharing initiative of ECFMG and other leading national physician education and assessment organizations—launched its first services today. ECFMG will participate in the Verification+ Service, which supports the credentialing and/or privileging of physicians. Data Commons’ innovative data hub allows access to data about health professionals from … Read More
Practice and informational materials for the restructured Step 3 examination have been posted to the USMLE website. Examinees who plan to take a Step 3 examination on or after November 3, 2014 should read the materials and practice with the sample items and cases. The materials include: Step 3 Addendum to the 2014 Bulletin of Information (PDF) … Read More
USMLE Physician Tasks/Competencies, a publication that provides a common organization of competencies and tasks assessed in USMLE examinations, is now available from USMLE. Examinees should read the full announcement on the USMLE website.
“No Poster, No Publication, No Problem” An AMA-IMGS and ECFMG Webinar Wednesday, July 9 at 7:00 p.m. ET Are you a medical student or graduate who is conducting original research or has an interesting case report (resident/fellow and ECFMG-certified participants only) and would like to submit an abstract and poster for the 12th Annual AMA … Read More
Residency Tokens for the ERAS 2015 application season are now available through ECFMG’s On-line Applicant Status and Information System (OASIS). You can use a 2015 Token to register with AAMC’s MyERAS beginning on Tuesday, July 1, 2014. If you plan to apply for U.S. residency positions that begin in July 2015, visit the ERAS Support … Read More
This schedule provides examinees, and others who rely on Step 2 CS results, with guidelines regarding when a result will be reported for a given exam date. Click here to view the schedule.
Most score reporting of Step 2 CK results occurs within four weeks of testing. Due to routine modifications to the Step 2 CK test item pool, there will be a delay in reporting for most examinees testing on or after July 31. The target date for reporting Step 2 CK scores for most examinees who … Read More
To participate in the National Resident Matching Program® (NRMP®) Main Residency MatchSM, international medical students/graduates must have passed all exams required for ECFMG Certification. If you plan to participate in the 2015 Match (in March 2015) and need to pass Step 2 Clinical Skills (CS), you must take Step 2 CS by December 31, 2014, to help … Read More
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