>>514119007
You have no idea anon. For some background, when foreign medical graduates apply to US residency programs they have to apply through our system. The biggest determining factor for applicants is their USMLE Step 2 exam score, one of our board exams.

A few years back, there was a massive cheating scandal where some program directors found that a majority of their top-tier applicants, people with scores above the 99th percentile, which is fucking crazy, were all international applicants (IMGs) coming from a tiny region in Nepal. The USMLE actually got off their ass for once and investigated and found that there was a massive cheating ring operating there. Normally, they cheat by making "recalls", basically writing down questions and answers after the exam and passing it around among themselves. This time they went even further- they managed to compromise a whole exam center and were taking pictures of the actual exam questions. For comparison, when I took the exam in the US, I had to scan my fucking palmprint and get searched every time I stepped back in.

They got the whole fucking exam man. There's no telling how long that was going on before it got noticed, or how many people they passed it around to. Rumor is that Pakistan and other such countries have similar cheating rings operating on Telegram.

https://medschoolinsiders.com/medical-student/nepal-usmle-cheating-scandal-explained/