St. George’s University students continue to flourish on the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1 exam, with first-time takers registering a 95 percent pass rate in 2018, including a 96 percent pass rate for students from the United States and Canada. The more than 1,200 SGU students taking the exam for the first time hailed from 49 countries over five continents. They posted an impressive mean score of 224, with a mean score of 230 for SGU’s Canadian students.