In the Us: Step 1 measures stuff people typically learn in college and med school, how well they retain the information, how well they have learned to learn (a

In the Us: Step 1 measures stuff people typically learn in college and med school, how well they retain the information, how well they have learned to learn (are you willing to anki all the time), and how will you do on standardized tests. There may be some "inequity", but it is more networking inequity based on your peer choices and ability to focus than simply zip code, economic, or racial. The med students I knew were either doing Anki every spare minute in preparation for step one, or had the ability to remember and recall after only one or two passes. Unlike your father's doctor, med schools these days do everything in their power to keep their students paying their tuition and passing through the four years (previous generations, med schools with purposely weed out a significant number of first-year students). Given the student loans showered on these indentured servants, there is little reason for economic inequity to be an excuse. Given, until the last year, affirmative action preferentially selected Black students so I'm not sure why racial inequity can be claimed on the standardized test - Anki does not care a bit about your ethnic history or skin color ...