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   Canadian Medical Education Journal     Updated data on test accommodations on the Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Exam Part I, 2013-2021 Données actualisées des accommodements pour l’examen d’aptitude du Conseil médical du Canada, partie I, 2013-2021 Quinten K Clarke1,2 Julia E Hanes3 1Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada; 2Centre for Health Education Scholarship, University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada; 3Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada Correspondence to: Quinten Clarke at quinten.clarke@medportal.ca Published ahead of issue: Aug 28, 2023; CMEJ 2023   Available at https://doi.org/10.36834/cmej.77805 © 2023 Clarke, Hanes; licensee Synergies Partners. This is an Open Journal Systems article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is cited.  Our article “Prevalence of test accommodations for the Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Exam Part I, 2013-2021”1 was recently published in the Canadian Medical Education Journal. Prior to publication, data was unavailable for the number of test takers in the 2021 examination year thus preventing our team from computing percentages for that year. The Medical Council of Canada has recently released their 2021 Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Exam (MCCQE) Part I Annual Technical Report.2 As such new data is available to provide further insight into the trend of accommodations on the MCCQE Part I. The most recent available year’s data has shown that in the 2021 year, 5,651 applicants took the MCCQE Part I.2 Our data, sourced from the Medical Council of Canada, indicated that 126 applicants wrote the exam with test accommodations in 2021; thus, the percentage of applicants who wrote the MCCQE Part I in 2021 with test accommodations is 2.23%.1 (Figure 1) The increasing linear trend of the percentage of applicants taking the MCCQE Part I with test accommodations has continued. Revised prevalence estimates of disability among MCCQE Part 1 test-takers now range between 0.89% and 2.23% which remain below recent Canadian Resident Matching Service (CaRMS) Self-identification Questionnaire findings that suggest 5.1% of CaRMS applicants identify as having a visible or invisible disability.3 We continue to be concerned that medical trainees with disabilities have poor access to test accommodations through the Medical Council of Canada.  Figure 1. Test Accommodations for the MCCQE Part I, 2013-2021 (Revised)  References 1. Clarke QK, Hanes J. Prevalence of test accommodations for the Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Exam Part I, 2013-2021. Can Med Ed J. 2023 May 30.  https://doi.org/10.36834/cmej.76934 2. Medical Council of Canada. MCCQE Part I Annual Technical Report 2021. 2021. 3. Canadian Resident Matching Service. Diversity data 2023. Available from: https://www.carms.ca/data-reports/r1-data-reports/diversity-data/ [Accessed Jul 12, 2023].  Letters to the Editor 

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