ArticleMedical education online2023
Resident factors associated with American board of internal medicine certification exam failure.
Article in Medical education online, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Mixed-Methods Evaluation of Programmatic Interventions on Academic Performance and Resident Perspectives in Internal Medicine Residency.Advances in medical education and practice · 2026Article
- Milestones Progression of International Medical Graduates in Family Medicine.Family medicine · 2025Article
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- USMLE Performance, Subsequent Standardized Testing, and ABIM Certification Exam Preparation for Internal Medicine Residency Programs: A Narrative Review.Journal of general internal medicine · 2025Review
- Public Board Score Reporting Undermines Holistic Review for Residency Selection.Journal of general internal medicine · 2025Article
- Subtyping of Performance Trajectory During Medical School, Medical Internship, and the First Year of Residency in Training Physicians: A Longitudinal Cohort Study.Journal of Korean medical science · 2024Article
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Abstract
introductionPerformance on the certifying examinations such as the American Board of Internal Medicine Certification Exam (ABIM-CE) is of great interest to residents and their residency programs. Identification of factors associated with certification exam result may allow residency programs to recognize and intervene for residents at risk of failing. Despite this, residency programs have few evidence-based predictors of certification exam outcome. The change to pass-or-fail score reporting of the USA Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) Step 1 removes one such predictor. MATERIALS AND
methodsWe performed a retrospective study of residents from a medium-sized internal medicine residency program who graduated from 1998 through 2017. We used univariate tests of associations between ABIM-CE result and various demographic and scholastic factors.
resultsOf 166 graduates, 14 (8.4%) failed the ABIM-CE on the first attempt. Failing the first attempt of the ABIM-CE was associated with older median age on entering residency (29 vs 27 years; DISCUSSION: Although USMLE step 1 has changed to a pass-or-fail reporting structure, there are still other characteristics that allow residency programs to identify residents at risk of ABIM-CE first time failure and who may benefit from intervention.
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