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标题：Founding a USMLE Step 1 student organization: A new approach to promote student engagement and peer support in exam preparation
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作者：Santiago Gonzalez ; Basilia Gonzalez ; Raj Singh 等
期刊名称：MedEdPublish
电子版ISSN：2312-7996
出版年度：2019
卷号：8
期号：3
页码：1-7
DOI：10.15694/mep.2019.000168.1
出版社：Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE)
摘要：The USMLE Step 1 exam is the principal tool that US residency programs utilize to select applicants for interview. Due to the high stakes nature of the exam, both students and educators need to be informed about the most effective preparation tools and support strategies available to students. The literature has evidence to suggest that the number of board-style questions a student completes has a strong correlation with performance on the exam. Based on this premise, a group of medical students developed a USMLE step 1 preparation program to increase the number of practice questions they completed, and to foster support and comradery among students. The main contribution of this educational initiative is its structure as a registered student organization, which may help to promote the program's continuity and constant improvement as the lessons learned pass from one class of student officers to the next. This article may serve as a how-to guide to describe the steps we took to start a Step 1 registered student organization at our institution, and about how the reader may be able to apply our experiences to create their own step 1 student organization at their institution.
关键词：USMLE Step 1; student--led; preparation program; student organization; practice questions; AOA; peer tutoring; residency; board examination; UAMS.