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Number 6 is the only one relevant at all to medical school. Making Step P/F won’t change any of these one iota.
I don’t know that I agree, and I think there are probably predictors in Med school for at least some of, if not all those outcomes, but of course I can’t claim to know exactly what they’d be (SLOEs for all specialties maybe, MMI residency interviews perhaps, etc).
I guess my only point is, as long as we have step scores to fall back on (which make money for private interests and make it cognitively easy to rank people, albeit not on a metric correlated with any other metric of interest) we as a profession won’t be motivated to figure out what those better evaluation tools are. I don’t think a pass/fail step in and of itself fixes anything, but maybe it motivates us to do a better job developing systems to measure the things that matter.