Will Bynum
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273 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2022
last heard Oct 2022
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So USMLE stands for United States Medical Licensing Exam.
And it's in its origin a test that ensures to the public, patients, regulators, that we have acquired the knowledge necessary to practice medicine safely.
The way it's actually used though is much different and
medical education in that because it's a standardized piece of information, one of very few, that matches or allows comparison among all students in the country, it's used for high stakes decisions and it provides a very convenient marker.
of that potential success problematically
It was never designed to do that and there's very little if any evidence
that says it's an effective or valid marker of that feature potential.
The postscript to the test is also uh one of intense anxiety and self doubt.
I mean, Emily, do you remember
Walking out of the test and the day or two after, you remember these questions that you weren't sure about and then went and looked it up and you you got the answer wrong and you're like, shit.
And then you start thinking, I got this other question wrong.
And then you start talking to your friends.
What what did you put for this and that?
And the whole time, not only are you panicking, but you're you're in this place of complete lack of control.
over the test, but but way bigger than that, what it's going to do to your future.
Here's the thing about
objective test scores.
They're actually necessary.
In many ways.
And so we can't we can't sit here and talk about
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