USMLE Step 1 and Step 2CK Scores by Specialty | Are Your Scores High Enough?

they didn't create step exams to help residency programs. residency programs decided to have students send scores, which should've never been allowed. both steps will logically go pass/fail, since the nbme is openly saying their scores weren't created to help residency programs. having students send these scores, along with personal statements, LORs, etc. just goes to show that med school students are just glorified premeds, hoping to get into real medical school, that is residency

USMLE Step 1 changed to pass/fail because of the massive physician shortage that is expected in the next few years. American people are the fattest unhealthiest people on the planet with the most unrealistic expectations about medicine. There is a TSUNAMI of old people who are coming into the medical system soon. Doctor quality will likely drop to some degree which will only make problems worse. Massive amounts of litigation is also incoming from everyone who thought their 200 year old mother hooked up to every machine we can get her was going to recover. Rural medicine is basically going to switch to the easiest highest paying speciality. It’s also possible that universal healthcare is on the horizon which brings a huge host of other problems, don’t forget doctor burnout and fatigue. Medicine is going to be insane in the next few decades and I’m so excited to have started Med school 😊

Completed med school😁

this is unrelated, but i have a question for anyone who might know the answer. Literally my whole life i’ve wanted to be a doctor. Generally, i’m pretty good with gory stuff and as a young kid i started watching educational videos of live surgery lol. I’ve always been pretty well informed with the topic as my parents are both nurses so taught me relevant information. I also read their uni textbooks and they’d buy me anatomy books to read because it was i was interested in. The question is coming soon i promise… i suffer from multiple anxiety disorders however, which are really well managed and i can pass as someone without it, however i have a couple random (but moderate) phobias, which involve feet which is not relevant to the area of medicine im interested in(neurology). my question is would I be able to make it through med school, because i know that it is an area that is covered but there are parts of the feet that looking at make me gag lol. sorry for the long ass comment but context is important

So what's the point of these scores if IMGs/FMGs can spend years studies for these exams; have no loans and so can comfortably do rotations, research and everything else to land spots in very competitive residencies including plastic; vs US graduates who struggle hard for these scores in limited time frame, graduate with tons of loans and must finish what they get as fast as they can to start paying their outrageous loans. Ironically some of them do not even match! I literally feel that our education system in the US suffers massive MCA stroke

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Off topic but thanks for including all races and also women Dr's in your videos.

Hey please what about Obgyn? Is it a competitive specialty?

Can you make a video about fraternity as a premed?

Step 1 had no more scores so I don’t get this video

What's the ophtalmology position in this ranks?

I'm a Vietnamese first year med student trying to apply for residency the US( after graduating) . In that case, it is important for me to do volunteer works or researchs? Does my performance in Vietnamese med school affect my chance to match into a residency ? I know this question isn't related to the video but I don't know where to ask.

This guy never fails to mention that he matched plastic surgery

Don’t matter anymore with step 1

Thanks for the educative videos. Please, how competitive is Anesthesiology?

Great video as always. Could you make a video on residency application process and match for FMGs/IMGs? You could really save a life with it🙏🏽

4:02 Uhm, this is not correct. 2023 is definitely the first year when programs will have to sort Step 1 pass/fail and numerically scored applicants. But, obviously we all get what he means.
The "score = skill" mentality to filter applicants will certainly fall to step 2 ck.
4:30 onward, Kevin is spitting straight facts. Well done.

You should make a video about match for IMGs and how it differs from the process US Med students go through

Make a so you want to be an hematologist oncologist

Maybe an option could be cap the number of places you can apply to maybe to like 40-50 per applicant or make sure you’re able to retake step 2 even if you pass

I matched into residency by rapping like Eminem during my interview so that’s always a third option to consider

What is the required USMLE score for a general practitioner??

What happens if you fail, do you get kicked out of med school? Please respond I really want to know.

Thanks Dr. J