A review of the benefits and drawbacks of high-stakes final examinations in higher education

S French, A Dickerson, RA Mulder - Higher Education, 2024 - Springer
High-stakes examinations enjoy widespread use as summative assessments in higher
education. We review the arguments for and against their use, across seven common …

“My assessments are biased!” measurement and sociocultural approaches to achieve fairness in assessment in medical education

KE Hauer, YS Park, JL Bullock, A Tekian - Academic Medicine, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Assessing learners is foundational to their training and developmental growth throughout
the medical education continuum. However, growing evidence shows the prevalence and …

Disability inclusion in medical education: towards a quality improvement approach

S Singh, LM Meeks - Medical Education, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Issue The shift to a more diverse workforce that includes physicians with
disabilities has gained considerable international traction. Indeed, disability inclusion is …

Barriers to disclosure of disability and request for accommodations among first-year resident physicians in the US

K Pereira-Lima, LM Meeks, KET Ross… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Ensuring access to accommodations is critical for resident physicians and their
patients. Studies show that a large proportion of medical trainees with disabilities do not …

Disability, program access, empathy and burnout in US medical students: A national study

LM Meeks, K Pereira‐Lima, M Plegue… - Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The objective of this study is to investigate whether self‐disclosed disability and
self‐reported program access are associated with measures of empathy and burnout in a …

Assessment of accommodation requests reported by a national sample of US MD students by category of disability

LM Meeks, K Pereira-Lima, M Plegue, E Stergiopoulos… - JAMA, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Methods| We analyzed data from 2 cohorts (2019 and 2020) of the Association of American
Medical Colleges Year Two Questionnaires, a national online survey of second-year MD …

Exploring accommodations along the education to employment pathway for deaf and hard of hearing healthcare professionals

CJ Moreland, LM Meeks, M Nahid, K Panzer… - BMC medical …, 2022 - Springer
Background Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) people are an underserved population and
underrepresented among healthcare professionals. A major barrier to success for DHH …

What impact does widening participation to medicine have on the medical workforce in the UK: a scoping review

T Cronin, D Gendy, JL Johnston - Education for Primary Care, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Widening participation in medicine refers to the recruitment policy of encouraging
those who are traditionally under-represented in medical school. Whilst research in the UK …

Factors associated with declaration of disability in medical students and junior doctors, and the association of declared disability with academic performance …

MJ Murphy, JS Dowell, DT Smith - BMJ open, 2022 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives To examine factors associated with declaration of disability by medical students
and doctors, and the association of declared disability with academic performance. Design …

“We Need a Seismic Shift”: Disabled Student Perspectives on Disability Inclusion in US Medical Education

NR Jain, E Stergiopoulos, A Addams… - Academic …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Purpose Students with disabilities have inequitable access to medical education, despite
widespread attention to their inclusion. Although systemic barriers and their adverse effects …