{"title":"Impact of School-Enforced Step 1 Deadlines on Medical Student Well-Being and Failure Rates: Two Medical Students' Perspective.","authors":"Joseph A Lanese, Forrest Bohler","doi":"10.14423/SMJ.0000000000001805","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The US Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 is a milestone assessment that evaluates a medical student's mastery of foundational medical sciences. Traditionally taken at the end of the preclinical curriculum, it now serves as a pass/fail examination before students begin clinical rotations. This transition, coupled with the enforcement of strict deadlines by various medical schools, has introduced significant challenges for students, including increased stress, potential academic delays, and financial hardship. This perspective explores the implications of these enforced deadlines to complete the US Medical Licensing Examination and how they may exacerbate the physician shortage, and it provides solutions that promote student well-being and maximize Step 1 pass rates.</p>","PeriodicalId":22043,"journal":{"name":"Southern Medical Journal","volume":"118 4","pages":"240-241"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Southern Medical Journal","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.14423/SMJ.0000000000001805","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The US Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 is a milestone assessment that evaluates a medical student's mastery of foundational medical sciences. Traditionally taken at the end of the preclinical curriculum, it now serves as a pass/fail examination before students begin clinical rotations. This transition, coupled with the enforcement of strict deadlines by various medical schools, has introduced significant challenges for students, including increased stress, potential academic delays, and financial hardship. This perspective explores the implications of these enforced deadlines to complete the US Medical Licensing Examination and how they may exacerbate the physician shortage, and it provides solutions that promote student well-being and maximize Step 1 pass rates.
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As the official journal of the Birmingham, Alabama-based Southern Medical Association (SMA), the Southern Medical Journal (SMJ) has for more than 100 years provided the latest clinical information in areas that affect patients'' daily lives. Now delivered to individuals exclusively online, the SMJ has a multidisciplinary focus that covers a broad range of topics relevant to physicians and other healthcare specialists in all relevant aspects of the profession, including medicine and medical specialties, surgery and surgery specialties; child and maternal health; mental health; emergency and disaster medicine; public health and environmental medicine; bioethics and medical education; and quality health care, patient safety, and best practices. Each month, articles span the spectrum of medical topics, providing timely, up-to-the-minute information for both primary care physicians and specialists. Contributors include leaders in the healthcare field from across the country and around the world. The SMJ enables physicians to provide the best possible care to patients in this age of rapidly changing modern medicine.
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