Step 2 Clinical Skills CS Form

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I'm professor Patrick doctor professor Patrick everybody welcome back today we're gonna cover the step to clinical skills exam so we're gonna be going over some preparation materials and then some examples that you can do the learning objectives for today are to understand the history and relevance of the Cs exam to prepare efficiently for this exam it should not take up the majority of your fourth year and to know what happens the day of the exam had a document effectively and hopefully pass so a little bit about the history and controversy of the exam this exam was only mandated for us medical grads beginning in 2004 it replaced the old clinical skills assessment which was normally a requirement for those who had medical training outside the United States so some of the controversies nationally the student fees account for 36 million dollars and then over 95 percent of u.s. medical students pass in their first attempt so if you kind of hash out the data it cost about 1.1 million doll