{"id":3485,"date":"2019-12-05T11:38:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T16:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecfmg.org\/news\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2019-12-05T11:38:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T16:38:30","slug":"usmle-review-focuses-on-patient-individuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecfmg.org\/news\/2019\/12\/05\/usmle-review-focuses-on-patient-individuality\/","title":{"rendered":"USMLE Review Focuses on Patient Individuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The United States Medical Licensing Examination<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> (USMLE<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>) program remains cognizant of these topics. Characteristics of a patient such as age, sex, gender identity, and occupation are sometimes mentioned within the case vignettes in test items. Some patient characteristics may be important inputs into the diagnostic reasoning process. Others may lead to incorrect conclusions and misdiagnoses. Among the latter are characteristics associated with harmful patient stereotypes.<\/p>\n<p>The USMLE program treats race as a social construct not linked to biology or susceptibility to disease. This is similarly true of ethnicity and \u201cculture\u201d or heritage. Ancestry, if known, may be biologically important, and thus may be relevant to factors relating to health and disease. In addition, when and if these characteristics are to be considered they should be considered on the basis of patient self-report, not the assumption of a health care provider. The USMLE program views patients as individuals, just as medical practice should and does.<\/p>\n<p>Examinees should refer to the full announcement on the <a href=\"https:\/\/usmle.org\/announcements\/?ContentId=257\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USMLE website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00ae (USMLE\u00ae) program remains cognizant of these topics. 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