MedPage Today October 18, 2024
— NYU finds its accelerated program matches the traditional program on key measures
Medical students in an accelerated 3-year graduate program performed similarly to students in a 4-year program at the same institution, according to a new single-institution study.
An analysis of New York University Grossman School of Medicine students over 7 years showed that individuals in the accelerated 3-year medical degree program had higher scores on the pre-clerkship exam compared with those in the traditional 4-year program (mean 84.6% vs 83.4%, P=0.01).
While students in the accelerated program did not perform quite as well as those in the traditional program on Step 1 or Step 2 of the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam (238.3 vs 243.9, P<0.001, and 245.8 vs...
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