United States Medical Licensing Examination (Step 2) - Physical Diagnosis

Author: People's Medical
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Publish Date: 2004-11-23
Features: The United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) is divided into three parts: USMLE Step 1 (PreTestUSMLEStep1), USMLE Step 2 (PreTestUSMLE2), and USMLE Step 3 (PreTestUSMLE3). Some parts of the exam focus primarily on basic medical sciences, such as anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, biochemistry, and so on. The second part of the exam focuses primarily on clinical medicine, such as internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, physical diagnosis, neurology, psychiatry, and so on. The third part of the questions is only used by medical students in the United States. Internationally, only the first and second parts of the exam are used.