Performance of U.S. and international medical graduates on the 1995 internal medicine in-training examination.

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Letters15 July 1996Performance of U.S. and International Medical Graduates on the 1995 Internal Medicine In-Training ExaminationHerbert S. Waxman, MD, Richard A. Garibaldi, MD, and Raja G. Subhiyah, MDHerbert S. Waxman, MDAlbert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA 19140University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT 06030National Board of Medical Examiners, Philadelphia, PA 19104Search for more papers by this author, Richard A. Garibaldi, MDAlbert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA 19140University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT 06030National Board of Medical Examiners, Philadelphia, PA 19104Search for more papers by this author, and Raja G. Subhiyah, MDAlbert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA 19140University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT 06030National Board of Medical Examiners, Philadelphia, PA 19104Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-125-2-199607150-00033 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail TO THE EDITOR:The In-Training Examination in Internal Medicine [1] is taken by almost all postgraduate year (PGY) II residents (6150 in 1995) and most PGY-I (4727) and PGY-III (4242) residents. The results are used by trainees to evaluate their performance relative to that of their peers and have proven to predict later performance by residents on the certifying board examination [2, 3]. Registration data allow comparison of scores of graduates of allopathic medical schools in the United States and of schools in other countries except Canada.The mean scores in 1995 for international medical school graduates at all three ...