What Step 3 tests
The official outline is your syllabus. Here is how the exam is organised and where to read the full document.
The four areas
Practise the multiple-choice content of both days, one category at a time.
Foundations of Independent Practice
Day 1 content: the sciences and decisions behind safe, independent care.
Advanced Clinical Medicine
Day 2 content: diagnosis, management and prognosis across the clinical disciplines.
Biostatistics & epidemiology
Reading studies, screening tests and interpreting medical literature.
Ethics, professionalism & patient safety
Communication, consent, systems-based practice and quality improvement.
Read the full official outline on usmle.org.
Practise by category
Our questions are tagged to these areas, so you can build blocks that match the exam. Open Start preparing to begin.
Past papers and syllabus
USMLE does not release past papers, so the official content outline is the syllabus. Plan your weeks around the areas where your block history is weakest.
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