Table 1.

Characteristics and response rates of participating medical schools

	George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (GW)	Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell (ZSOM)	University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana Champaign (UICOMUC)
USMLE Step 1 Timing	Step 1 before clerkships	Step 1 before clerkships	Step 1 before clerkships
Clerkship start	End of April	June	July
NBME as component of overall clerkship grade	About one-third of clerkship grade (range 16–40%)	One-third of clerkship grade	One-third of clerkship grade
Clerkship grading system	Honors/high pass/pass/conditional/fail	Honors/high pass/pass/conditional/fail	Outstanding/advanced/pass/fail
Completed survey response rate	46/175	68/91	16/27