Step 2 CS Question

[valleyrekt]

I have a question regarding a specific circumstance during the Step 2 CS Exam:

One examinee, who just so happens to have been a high school science teacher before going to medical school, fails the CS Exam specifically because of his CIS performance, which is graded by the standardized patients. ICE and SEP are very high, but the CIS score just beneath borderline.

To the examinee's disbelief, he realizes that one of the standardized patients was a former high school student of his. As in...he graded that SP's homework, exams, lectured in front of the student about science topics each day for months, and had interaction with that standardized patient throughout the school year.

I have a few questions...

One is, does anyone know if there are any rules pertaining to what happens if the examinee personally knows the standardized patient, such as in this case? Also, wondering if anyone thinks that there could be some conflicts of interest here, with regards to grading and also the effect that this may have had on the examinee during this exhausting and high-stakes exam? Very curious about how a situation like this is handled.

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[Crayola227]

contact the USMLE about this - there's a section that tells you what to do in the case of testing irregularities

 

[valleyrekt]

What is mind boggling is that...medical students are assured time and time again how well-trained the standardized patients are...you would think that the SP would have the integrity to report that he/she knew the examinee..