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The USMLE® Step 2 Clinical Skills Patient Note Corpus

Posted: | Victoria Yaneva, Janet Mee, Le Ha, Polina Harik, Michael Jodoin, Alex Mechaber

Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - p 2880–2886

 

This paper presents a corpus of 43,985 clinical patient notes (PNs) written by 35,156 examinees during the high-stakes USMLE® Step 2 Clinical Skills examination.

Category:Product-Oriented Research, USMLE

An Examination of the Associations Among USMLE Step 3 Scores and Likelihood of Disciplinary Action in Practice

Posted: | Monica M. Cuddy, Chunyan Liu, Wenli Ouyang, Michael A. Barone, Aaron Young, David A. Johnson

Academic Medicine: June 2022

 

This study examines the associations between Step 3 scores and subsequent receipt of disciplinary action taken by state medical boards for problematic behavior in practice. It analyzes Step 3 total, Step 3 computer-based case simulation (CCS), and Step 3multiple-choice question (MCQ) scores.

Category:Product-Oriented Research, USMLE, Assessment-Oriented Research, Reliability/Validity, Links to Outcomes

In Reply to Spadafore and Monrad

Posted: | J. Salt, P. Harik, M. A. Barone

Academic Medicine: July 2019 - Volume 94 - Issue 7 - p 926-927

 

A response to concerns regarding potential bias in the implementation of machine learning (ML) to scoring of the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 2 Clinical Skills (CS) patient notes (PN).

Category:Product-Oriented Research, USMLE