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Modeling Relationships between Traditional Preadmission Measures and Clinical Skills Performance on a Medical Licensure Examination
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Roberts, William L.; Pugliano, Gina; Langenau, Erik; Boulet, John R. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2012
Medical schools employ a variety of preadmission measures to select students most likely to succeed in the program. The Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) and the undergraduate college grade point average (uGPA) are two academic measures typically used to select students in medical school. The assumption that presently used preadmission…
Descriptors: Evidence, Medical Students, Grade Point Average, Medical Schools
Examining Changes in Certification/Licensure Requirements and the International Medical Graduate Examinee Pool
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McKinley, Danette W.; Hess, Brian J.; Boulet, John R.; Lipner, Rebecca S. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2014
Changes in certification requirements and examinee characteristics are likely to influence the validity of the evidence associated with interpretations made based on test data. We examined whether changes in Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) certification requirements over time were associated with changes in internal…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Medical Education, Certification, Graduation Requirements
Effect of First-Encounter Pretest on Pass/Fail Rates of a Clinical Skills Medical Licensure Examination
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Roberts, William L.; McKinley, Danette W.; Boulet, John R. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2010
Due to the high-stakes nature of medical exams it is prudent for test agencies to critically evaluate test data and control for potential threats to validity. For the typical multiple station performance assessments used in medicine, it may take time for examinees to become comfortable with the test format and administrative protocol. Since each…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Pretests Posttests, Licensing Examinations (Professions), Scores
Checklist Content on a Standardized Patient Assessment: An Ex Post Facto Review
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Boulet, John R.; van Zanten, Marta; de Champlain, Andre; Hawkins, Richard E.; Peitzman, Steven J. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2008
While checklists are often used to score standardized patient based clinical assessments, little research has focused on issues related to their development or the level of agreement with respect to the importance of specific items. Five physicians independently reviewed checklists from 11 simulation scenarios that were part of the former…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Foreign Medical Graduates, Patients, Clinical Experience
Investigating Gender-Related Construct-Irrelevant Components of Scores on the Written Assessment Exercise of a High-Stakes Certification Assessment
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Boulet, John R.; McKinley, Danette W. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2005
The ECFMG[R] Clinical Skills Assessment (CSA[R]) was developed to evaluate whether graduates of international medical schools (IMGs) are ready to enter graduate training programs in the United States. The patient note (PN) exercise is specifically used to assess a candidate's ability to summarize and synthesize the data collected in a simulated…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Medical Schools, Program Effectiveness, Statistical Analysis
Assessing the Written Communication Skills of Medical School Graduates
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Boulet, John R.; Rebbecchi, Thomas A.; Denton, Elizabeth C.; McKinley, Danette W.; Whelan, Gerald P. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2004
The ECFMG[R] Clinical Skills Assessment (CSA[R]) was developed to evaluate whether graduates of international medical schools (IMGs) are ready to enter graduate training programs in the United States. The patient note (PN) exercise, conducted after a 15-minute interview with a standardized patient (SP), is specifically used to assess a candidate's…
Descriptors: Generalizability Theory, Medical Education, Graduate Study, Medical Schools