Do US students take USMLE exams of the same content like IMG (foreign) doctors?

Question

Do US students take USMLE exams of the same content like IMG (foreign) doctors? Is it true that American students take USMLE separated in subjects not a as a whole set of 300 questions on all topics?

Answer 1

Do US students take USMLE exams of the same content like IMG (foreign) doctors?

Yes, they do.

Is it true that American students take USMLE separated in subjects not a as a whole set of 300 questions on all topics?

It is false. It's the same.

• USMLE Step 1 : single-day, composed of seven 40-question sections with a maximum 280 multiple-choice questions (Source: usmle.org)
• USMLE Step 2 CK: 9-hour single-day computer-based test composed of eight question sets with no more than 40 questions per set (Source: usmle.org)
• USMLE Step 3: 2 days (9 hours and 8 hours) with the first day multiple choice questions, and second day multiple choice and computer-based (simulation-like) questions. It's broken into hour chunks like Step 2 CK.