Session 2: Remembering Jimmy

10:30 a.m. — Session 2: Remembering Jimmy Stephen Yenser, distinguished professor of English, UCLA — Reading an essay about his friendship with Merrill Randy Bean, board member, James Merrill House Committee — Presenting on the history and initiatives of the James Merrill House Judith Moffett, adjunct professor emerita of English, University of Pennsylvania — Mixed Messages, an excerpt from Unlikely Friends: A Memoir Rachel Hadas, professor of English, Rutgers University — (via prerecorded video) reading an excerpt from The Book of Ephraim, reading her poem, Threshold and Mirror: the Biography, and recollecting her friendship with Merril

Session 5: Readings

4:00 p.m. — Session 5: Readings of James Merrill poems, letters and translations. Mary Jo Bang reads the poems The Green Eye, To My Greek, and Light of the Street, Darkness of Your Own House, and the translations For My Father and The Malleability of Sorrow. Joseph Loewenstein reads from and comments on section X of The Book of Ephraim. J. D. McClatchy reads two 1973 letters from Merrill to McClatchy. Carl Phillips reads the poems The Black Swan, The Charioteer of Delphi, Last Words, My Father\u27s Irish Setters, and An Upward Look. Stephen Yenser reads a 1971 letter from Merrill to Yenser, and the poem, Christmas Tree. Videos here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPgEUBFA7A7mlpWDetD0e4-r5Z7KlnYr

Correlation Between United States Medical Licensing Examination and Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination Scores for Applicants to a Dually Approved Emergency Medicine Residency.

BACKGROUND: It is important for emergency medicine (EM) residency programs to be able to correlate the United States (US) Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) and Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination (COMLEX) scores of applicants. OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine the correlation between USMLE and COMLEX scores for EM residency applicants. METHODS: Retrospectively, from 2006 through 2013, USMLE and COMLEX examination scores for applicants to our 4-year, 56-member, dually approved EM residency were analyzed. Using the COMLEX score as the outcome variable and USMLE score as the predictor, multiple linear regression models, stratified by test step, were created. RESULTS: There were 556 students representing 25 discrete medical schools included. Pair 1 consisted of applicants submitting COMLEX Level-1 and USMLE Step-1 scores (n = 486). Pair 2 were those with COMLEX Level-2 and USMLE Step-2 scores (n = 356). For Pair 1, mean, standard deviation, and median scores on the COMLEX were 551, 69, and 548, respectively; for the USMLE, scores were 216, 16, and 217, respectively. Results for Pair 2 on COMLEX were 566, 80, and 562, respectively; USMLE results were 228, 18, and 229, respectively. A strong correlation was observed for Pair 1 (r = 0.78; p \u3c 0.001). A 1-point increase in USMLE Step-1 is associated with a 3.55-point increase in the COMLEX Level-1 score (β = 3.55; 95% confidence interval [CI] 3.30-3.80; p \u3c 0.001). A similar strong correlation was observed for Pair 2 (r = 0.72; p \u3c 0.001), where a 1-point increase in USMLE Step-2 is associated with a 3.29-point increase in the COMLEX Level-2 score (β = 3.29; 95% CI 2.96-3.62; p \u3c 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: A strong positive correlation between Steps 1 and 2 of the USMLE and COMLEX was found