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EVALUATING THE SPOKEN ENGLISH PROFICIENCY OF INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL GRADUATES FOR CERTIFICATION AND LICENSURE IN THE UNITED STATES
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EVALUATING THE SPOKEN ENGLISH PROFICIENCY OF INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL GRADUATES FOR CERTIFICATION AND LICENSURE IN THE UNITED STATES

Barbara J. Hoekje and Sara M. Tipton
Innovation and Leadership in English Language Teaching, pp 75-90
01 Jan 2011
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S2041-272X(2011)0000005010

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Education & Educational Research Language & Linguistics Linguistics Social Sciences
International medical graduates seeking to practice in the United States must pass the United States Medical Licensing Examination (R) (USMLE (R)) Step 2 Clinical Skills (CS), a seven-hour performance test which incorporates an assessment of an examinee's spoken English proficiency evaluated by trained lay raters who are simulating patients in a mock medical environment. This chapter focuses on issues associated with that assessment, including scale development, rater training, standard setting, and ongoing reliability and validity data. Aggregate IMG performance statistics are provided. While overall reliability for the spoken English proficiency measure in the Step 2 CS is high, future studies are needed to better understand nonnative English-speaking IMGs' performance in the medical workplace.

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