Perils of pass–fail: clerkship Shelf Scores are not good surrogates for Step 1

Lindsay Volk1, Hanna E. Labiner1, Ashely Toussaint1, Nell Maloney Patel1, Dylan R. Nieman1
1Department of General Surgery, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, USA

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