The United States Medical Licensing Examination(R) (USMLE(R)) is a three step examination for medical licensure in the United States and is sponsored by the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) and the National Board of Medical Examiners(R) (NBME(R)). The USMLE assesses a physician's ability to apply knowledge, concepts and principles, and to demonstrate fundamental patient-centred skills that are important in health and disease, and that constitute the basis of safe and effective patient care. Each of the three steps of the USMLE complements the others - medical students that aim to complete their degrees and plan to practice medicine in the USA have to pass all three USMLE Step examinations. USMLE Step 1 assesses whether medical students or graduates understand and can apply important concepts of the basic sciences to the practice of medicine. It covers both systemic (general and individual anatomical characteristics) and procedural (functional, therapeutic, environmental and abnormality) themes. (www.usmle.org).
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