Step 2 Clinical Skills (Step 2 CS) of the United States Medical Licensing Examination™ (USMLE™) is an exam that is currently administered to all medical students/ graduate who wish to become licensed physicians in the U.S..
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Exam Structure
The USMLE Step 2CS exam consists of a series of patient encounters in which the examinee must see the simulated patient or SPs, take a history and do a physical examination, determine differential diagnoses, then write a patient note based on his/her determinations. The examinee is allowed 15 minutes to complete each encounter and 10 minutes for the Patient note for a single patient encounter. Over the course of an 8-hour exam day, the examinee completes 12 such encounters. USMLE Step 2 CS replaced the former ECFMG Clinical Skills Assessment (CSA®) effective June 14, 2004. The last administration of the ECFMG Clinical Skills Assessment (CSA) took place on April 16 2004.
Exam centers
The exam can be taken only in the USA. Currently there are 5 testing centers called the Clinical Skills Evaluation Center (CSEC) throughout the USA:
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Chicago, Illinois
- Houston, Texas
- Los Angeles, California
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
See also
- USMLE Step 1
- USMLE Step 2CK
- USMLE Step 3
