The medical education community is reflecting increasingly on the role and nature of
research in the field. Useful sources of data to include in these reflections are a description …

A new Swiss federal licencing examination for human medicine (FLE) was developed and
released in 2011. This paper describes the process from concept design to the first results …

The increasing availability and capability of computers and associated technologies (eg, the
internet) is fueling a trend toward more innovative constructed-response tasks in computer …

Background: Valid methods are needed to identify anesthesia resident performance gaps
early in training. However, many assessment tools in medicine have not been properly …

The present study examined the long‐term usefulness of estimated parameters used to
adjust the scores from a performance assessment to account for differences in rater …

Objective. In several high profile prosecutions of physicians for prescribing opioids,
prosecutors claimed that the doctors should have known the individuals were feigning pain …

Background Multivariate generalizability analysis was used to investigate the performance
of a commonly used clinical evaluation tool. Method Practicing physicians were trained to …

Although multivariate generalizability theory was developed more than 30 years ago, little
published research utilizing this framework exists and most of what does exist examines …

Purpose Medical schools administer locally developed graduation competency
examinations (GCEs) following the structure of the United States Medical Licensing …

Background This research examined relationships between and among scores from the
United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1, Step 2 Clinical Knowledge …