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Subject: Re: a question regarding CSA and step 2 CS

Author:
Amir

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Date Posted: 09:39:40 09/30/03 Tue
In reply to: Samira 's message, "a question regarding CSA and step 2 CS" on 21:45:58 09/25/03 Thu

Hi,
No one really knows wether it will be more competitive or not, but if I were you I would take CSA because we already knoe much more about it, and its pass rate is somewhere around 70-80%: not a bad figure.
Amir
>As you may already know , from spring 2004 CSA will be
>replaced by step 2 CS and TOEFL will no longer be a
>requirement for ECFMG .
>What I want to know is that if I take my step 1
>sometime in Nov. will it be better to rush up for CSA
>in it's remaining time (before spring) ? Will step 2
>CS be more competetive ?
>Thanx in advance,
>Samira Bahrainy
>
>PS: for further information you can take a look at the
>following note.
>
> As previously published in The ECFMG Reporter and on
>the ECFMG website,
>a
>clinical skills examination will become part of the
>United States
>Medical
>Licensing Examination(tm) (USMLE(tm)) in mid-2004. The
>new exam, USMLE
>Step
>2 Clinical Skills (Step 2 CS), will replace the ECFMG
>Clinical Skills
>Assessment (CSA) as the exam that satisfies the
>clinical skills
>requirement
>for ECFMG Certification. Administration of Step 2 CS
>is expected to
>begin on
>June 1, 2004.
>
>ECFMG will administer the CSA until spring 2004.
>However, all CSA
>testing
>spaces available through the end of CSA administration
>in spring 2004
>are
>expected to fill by late 2003 or early 2004. ECFMG
>will continue to
>register
>applicants for the CSA until either:
>
>- Enough applicants have been registered to fill
>available CSA testing
>spaces, OR
>
>- All CSA applications received through January 5,
>2004 have been
>processed,

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