Consensus opinion provided by Dan Mountcastle, MD; Phillip Hynes, MD; and Nick Lorenzo, MD
The Subject Examinations (Shelf) are available through the NBME® and NBOME® are used by medical schools to measure medical student knowledge across basic science and clinical topics. They usually serve to assess students at the end of a course or clerkship and gauge readiness for the USMLE® and COMLEX®.
Topics on the Shelf examinations include:
- Basic Science
- Behavioral sciences
- Biochemistry
- Gross anatomy
- Gross anatomy and embryology
- Histology
- Microbiology
- Microbiology and immunology
- Neuroscience
- Pathology
- Pharmacology
- Physiology
- Introduction to clinical diagnosis
- Clinical Science
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- Ambulatory care
- Clinical neurology
- Family medicine
- Obstetrics and gynecology
- Pediatrics
- Psychiatry
- Advanced Clinical Science
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- Emergency medicine
- Internal medicine
- Comprehensive Basic Science
- Comprehensive Clinical Science
