The emergency medicine specialty certification examination (EMSCE)

Maatsch, Jack L.; Krome, Ronald L.; Sprafka, Sarah A.; Maclean, Charles B.

doi:10.1016/s0361-1124(76)80289-4

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“…Observance of these steps is required to reach a sustainable innovation in the real world of professional education and assessment. Pioneering work by Maatsch et al (1976) in the early days of the new certification processes of the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABME) in the 1970s serves as a template for assessment innovators today. In addition to shifting to criterion referencing, the project established best practices for large scale assessment innovations: (1) planned collaboration amongst key stakeholders including the profession, the regulators and the educators; (2) established standards for national credentialing and certification processes; (3) undertook full-scale field trials of the assessment tools (directed by independent psychometric experts); (4) used project management to plan, execute, control and finish the specific assessment goals for the ABEM; and (5) based on subsequent follow-up studies, eliminated inefficient assessment formats (Munger et al 1982; American Board of Emergency Medicine 2018).…”

Section: Roadmap One: Reframe and Address Cba As A Measurement Development Issuementioning

confidence: 99%

Considerations that will determine if competency-based assessment is a sustainable innovation

Dauphinee

Boulet

Norcini

2018

Adv in Health Sci Educ

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Educational assessment for the health professions has seen a major attempt to introduce competency based frameworks. As high level policy developments, the changes were intended to improve outcomes by supporting learning and skills development. However, we argue that previous experiences with major innovations in assessment offer an important road map for developing and refining assessment innovations, including careful piloting and analyses of their measurement qualities and impacts. Based on the literature, numerous assessment workshops, personal interactions with potential users, and our 40 years of experience in implementing assessment change, we lament the lack of a coordinated approach to clarify and improve measurement qualities and functionality of competency based assessment (CBA). To address this worrisome situation, we offer two roadmaps to guide CBA's further development. Initially, reframe and address CBA as a measurement development opportunity. Secondly, using a roadmap adapted from the management literature on sustainable innovation, the medical assessment community needs to initiate an integrated plan to implement CBA as a sustainable innovation within existing educational programs and self-regulatory enterprises. Further examples of down-stream opportunities to refocus CBA at the implementation level within faculties and within the regulatory framework of the profession are offered. In closing, we challenge the broader assessment community in medicine to step forward and own the challenge and opportunities to reframe CBA as an innovation to improve the quality of the clinical educational experience. The goal is to optimize assessment in health education and ultimately improve the public's health.

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Section: Roadmap One: Reframe and Address Cba As A Measurement Development Issuementioning

confidence: 99%

Considerations that will determine if competency-based assessment is a sustainable innovation

Dauphinee

Boulet

Norcini

2018

Adv in Health Sci Educ

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“…Faculty or the learner selects the clinical chart for a learner's patient to be used as a stimulus for questioning. [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] Using the learner's own clinical chart situates the examination within a realistic context, adding to the authenticity and value of the exercise. 17 Through a series of probing questions designed to inquire into the learner's clinical decision-making skills, the examinee is asked to reflect on and explain his or her rationale for clinical decisions.…”

Section: Chart-stimulated Recallmentioning

confidence: 99%