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I do think it goes hand in hand with the applicant pool. Podiatry accepts people who should not be doctors, surprised when their pass rates drop.The solution is straightforward: schools should create new questions for each exam. This approach could save people hundreds of thousands of dollars in the long run and raise podiatric standards. Given that we'll be dealing with actual human lives, and considering that the APMLE is a basic competency exam that's less challenging than the USMLE, struggling to pass after many years simply suggests a failure to learn the material properly in the first place. There are schools sitting below 70% first time pass rate and it’s scary to imagine what’s going on at those institutions.
The solution is for cpme to actually have a backbone and put schools on probation. After residency I will join cpme and start that. But by then it’ll be too late - 25 schools with 8 more in the works.