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USMLE Step 4 Approved Days Before USMLE Had to Claim Chapter 7

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USMLE Step 4 Approved Days Before USMLE Had to Claim Chapter 7

The USMLE organization, the single group responsible for certifying all American physicians, has added the USMLE Step 4 for all current and future medical residents.

usmle_This new Step will include 3 parts:

1) A written section similar to Step 3 but labeled Step 4CBK (Clinical and Book Knowledge) and will include a $550 registration fee and a $350 testing fee.

2) A Step 4CSK (Clinical Skills and Knowledge) that includes a $550 registration fee and a $2000 testing fee.

3) And finally a Step 4E (essay), like the MCAT, that will require students and residents to go to one of 2 convenient testing centers, located in Oklahoma City and Salt Lake City, and write an essay on anything they want, for a $7,000 testing fee (plus travel expenses).  Each test, they added, must be taken separately.

“Step 4E [essay] is really a capstone on the future physician’s medical training.  They had to write a long, critical essay when they took the MCAT, now a final essay when they leave medical education,” Sam Silver M.D. a USMLE board member said in a statement.  “Like the MCAT, the written portion will be graded differently, this time using symbols found above the numbers on a standard qwerty keyboard,  from ~ to !@#$%^&*()_ and +.”

Dr. Silver also said the other parts of the test Step 4CBK will be given a number grading scale and Step 4CSK a pass/fail with a projected 99.9% of testers passing.  Giving a final 3-part combined score of 35P^, where the ^ is the essay.  Other Scores of 24P# and 22P( are possible.  When asked why have a test when everyone passes anyway, he responded: “We have Step 2 CS, which most people pass, and that is a vital step in the licensing process.”  He also reiterated that this announcement was in no way related to the ginormous debt the USMLE has accrued over the years.

70 COMMENTS

  2. You omitted mention of the 5% discount for non-refundable pre-payment of all Step 4 fees before the first day as an MS-1

  23. After i almost has a heart attack thinking this was serious; my husband says: “i don’t get it” Obviously he’s not a doctor.

  48. Sounds like a load of garbage and a way to rip med students and residents off even more. I have a $2600 board exam to take. I don’t want to spend close to $10K for yet another USMLE. Ridiculous.

  55. Good thing I’m a DO and our licensing board, which is not redundant at all to the usmle, would never add a step for money. Of course if they did, our essay would require discussion on how we planned to use OMM to cure disease.

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