Improving USMLE Step 1 outcomes in academically vulnerable students through a targeted, competency-based curriculum
Meghan M. Kiefer, Edith Wang, Kellie Engle, Maya Sardesai, Heather McPhillips, Matthew J. Cunningham · 2025
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Meghan Kiefer, Edith Wang, Kellie Engle, Maya Sardesai, Heather McPhillips, and Matthew Cunningham wrote this 2025 study on helping at-risk medical students pass their first big licensing exam. Failing that exam can wound a student's health, grades, and graduation date. Schools can spot who is at risk, but proof on how to lift them was thin.
Since 2019, their school has offered a ten-week review course in the basic sciences to flagged students, ahead of the normal study block. Fifty students who took it were matched with fifty like peers who did not. The course group scored about ten points higher on the exam. On-time graduation rates were much the same. The authors back the early, optional course as a sound support.
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| CREATOR | Meghan M. Kiefer, Edith Wang, Kellie Engle, Maya Sardesai, Heather McPhillips, Matthew J. Cunningham |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |