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You have traversed the rigorous path from naive pre-medical student to competent, decision-making, almost-professional physician-in-training. Your profession requires that you have the ability to make informed, rapid, and accurate decisions. While taking tests may not be your favorite sport, exams--even the rigorous USMLE--are a necessary part of your professional development. By ruling out distractors and selecting correct answers in a test environment, you are developing your professional diagnostic skills.
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Shain, D.D. (1995). Test-Taking • Discrimination Skills. In: Study Skills and Test-Taking Strategies for Medical Students. Oklahoma Notes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4196-6_7
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