• For international students who want to apply for USMLE Step 1 exam, should be enrolled / have completed their MBBS from a medical school, which is listed in World Directory of Medical School. Candidates can check if their medical school is listed in World Directory of Medical School or not on WDOMS website.
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• Student should meet eligibility criteria set for ECFMG certificate. (ECMFG: Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates)
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• Student must meet eligibility USMLE eligibility criteria at the time of the application for USMLE step 1 registration.

International students, who are willing to appear for USMLE Step 1 exam, will have to apply for an ECMFG certification. Only after they are eligible for ECMFG certificate, they are eligible to take USMLE Step 1 test.

The candidates will have to choose an eligibility period of three months. After the eligibility period has been chosen, candidates should select the date they want to take the test on during the eligibility period. According to USMLE the guidelines, students cannot choose first week of January and major holidays as their USMLE dates.

USMLE Step 1 Syllabus contains mostly the subjects students learn in first two years of medical school. Listed below is the information about the subjects and its weightage range for the respective subject:

USMLE step 1 subjects distribution:

Process:

USMLE Step 1 examination is a one-day exam. The test duration is 8 hours, divided into 7 blocks of one hour each. Each of the blocks will have not more than 40 USMLE questions, and the total number of questions will be 280. The questions will be MCQ type.

USMLE Step 1 exam is an assessment of candidate’s knowledge of science related to medical practice in various disciplines and inter-disciplines of medical science.

Test scores for USMLE Step 1 are declared after three to four weeks of the examination. There is no definite minimum score to qualify. They are declared in three-digit format. The latest Step 1 scores to qualify USMLE Step 1 is 194.