Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates
As of July 17, 2011, all examinees taking the Step 2 Clinical Skills (CS) examination will be required to type the patient note. Examinees will not be permitted to handwrite the note unless technical difficulties make the patient note typing program unavailable. A simulation of the computerized patient note program, which examinees may use to … Read More
International medical students/graduates and graduates of Fifth Pathway programs who plan to participate in the 2012 Main Residency Match (in March 2012) are reminded that they must take Step 2 Clinical Skills (CS) by December 31, 2011. As published in the 2011 Schedule for Reporting Step 2 CS Results, if you do not take Step … Read More
Effective January 1, 2011, Prometric will charge a fee if USMLE examinees change testing appointments (e.g., reschedule, cancel, change test center location) at Prometric Test Centers thirty or fewer days before their scheduled test date. No fee is charged for changing testing appointments 31 or more days prior to the first day of the scheduled … Read More
Effective July 1, 2010, funds in an applicant’s ECFMG financial account will be available for a period of two years to pay for requested services. Any funds not used during a two-year period will be forfeited to ECFMG; this means that the applicant will lose those funds. The two-year period will be calculated from the … Read More
The National Board of Medical Examiners® (NBME) offers web-based self-assessments to help medical students and graduates evaluate their readiness for the computer-based components of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE). The content of the Comprehensive Basic Science Self-Assessment (CBSSA) resembles the content of USMLE Step 1, while the content of the Comprehensive Clinical Science … Read More
ECFMG would like to remind applicants that they are required to pass those United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Steps and Step Components required for ECFMG Certification within a seven-year period. This means that once an applicant passes a Step or Step Component, the applicant will have seven years to pass the other Step(s) or … Read More
It has come to our attention that some Step 2 CS registrants have offered to exchange their scheduled testing appointments for those of other registrants who must take Step 2 CS by specific deadlines. The exchange of testing appointments between applicants is not consistent with the “first-come, first-served” basis on which Step 2 CS testing … Read More
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