Tip 4: Medical specialists in a specific discipline of healthcare must not miss to choose relevant keywords while categorizing their service online on local listing sites. #TreatmentsByRepugen#hcsm#MedEd
Tip 3: Healthcare professionals with any special association are advised to include a brief detail in the description section while updating their details on local listing sites. #TreatmentsByrepugen#hcsm#MedEd
T1 #meded Thisis a good topic. As someone whose whole personal educational experience was conditioned to grades, the shift to longitudinal milestones to eval others is sometimes hard for me
T1 #meded I would think #medstudents would prefer criterion-referenced exams so they aren't compared to a group. Would be interesting to hear their take.
T1 #meded Why then do we continue to rely so much on nationally standardized exams like #USMLE if desired outcomes arise from criterion-referenced exams?
I agree with @AFornari1; criterion based tests are more compatible with current #meded competency and EPA-based curricula IF ... the bar is set high and challenging.
T1 #meded Why then do we continue to rely so much on nationally standardized exams like #USMLE if desired outcomes arise from criterion-referenced exams?
T1 #meded steps/comlex are still defended by people who evaluate stufents coming from a wide array of schools, both usmd, usdo, and international. It gives a common, if flawed, touchstone https://t.co/hpVSw7sFqS
T1 #meded Why then do we continue to rely so much on nationally standardized exams like #USMLE if desired outcomes arise from criterion-referenced exams?
T1 #meded That's true, but if they would report the outcome in as per guidelines for norm-based exams (Pass/Fail) it wouldn't be such an issue. Right? #MakeUSMLEPassFail
High enough to promote patient safety, reduce diagnostic errors, and restore public trust in the profession. A tall order, but also an important one. #meded needs to get this right.
T1 #meded What's your opinion on setting a bar, but being flexible if for whatever reason the exam performance is lower than anticipated? Do you feel that's lowering standards? Or bad exam writing?
#meded I’m not opposed to that, personally. Some people are horrible test takers, fine drs. Others horrible drs, great test takers. But I know people who feel they need those numbers
T2 #meded This is what I've been hinting at.....what if your faculty are not good at writing exam items? How can you be sure your exams then meet that bar? @myheroistrane
T2: Developing high-quality workplace assessments for things that are more challenging to measure (ex: clinical skills, critical thinking, systems thinking and other #healthsystemsscience skills)
T2: Developing high-quality workplace assessments for things that are more challenging to measure (ex: clinical skills, critical thinking, systems thinking and other #healthsystemsscience skills)
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with he intent to reply.” — Stephen Covey Tough to realize I am guilty of this as well at times as well. #hmieducators@harvardmacy
Could be either; this is why we need #meded research: to start connecting the dots between our assessments and patient outcomes. Organizations like #SDRME can help in this regard.
T1 #meded What's your opinion on setting a bar, but being flexible if for whatever reason the exam performance is lower than anticipated? Do you feel that's lowering standards? Or bad exam writing?
I think everyone in #MedEd is challenged to do enough direct obs. We have several SP OSCE stations for HSS-related skills (shared decision-making, HVCC care)
T2 #meded The OSCEs are great, but still an artificial experience. How can the direct obs happen more often in our RVU world so #medstudents are assessed in authentic patient encounters?
What if the educationo-industrial complex (that was on full display at #AAMC17) were to be oriented toward helping schools make robust assessments rather than gaming the existing test? #meded#MakeUSMLEPassFail
T2 #meded This is what I've been hinting at.....what if your faculty are not good at writing exam items? How can you be sure your exams then meet that bar? @myheroistrane
Robert Binhammer, M.D., emeritus professor in the UNMC Department of Genetics, Cell Biology & Anatomy, is one of the recipients of an Office of Academic Affairs' 2017 Impact in Education Award. He will receive the Valor in Education Service Award. https://t.co/VYdX79flCv
Topic 3: External forces are blamed for the reliance on norm-based exams. How can #medschools include other #assessments without them being used as another screening tool for residency? #meded
T3 #meded It's been argued that if #USMLE is pass/fail that program directors will find another arbitrary metric to rate #medstudents. Is this an uphill battle to incorporate other forms of assessment?
T3: Or - can we change the UME to GME transition & culture to acknowledge those that have ‘met the bar’ and provide rich data re unique student strengths? #MedEd
Topic 3: External forces are blamed for the reliance on norm-based exams. How can #medschools include other #assessments without them being used as another screening tool for residency? #meded
Here’s a heretical thought: what if residencies did their own assessment? Then they could focus on abilities if importance to them, and it might keep the numbers of applicants more manageable. #meded
Topic 3: External forces are blamed for the reliance on norm-based exams. How can #medschools include other #assessments without them being used as another screening tool for residency? #meded
T3 #meded That's a brilliant idea. Instead of a day of interviews have more skill based exercises to assess readiness for residency! Programs could then customize to their needs and not an arbitrary standard.
Here’s a heretical thought: what if residencies did their own assessment? Then they could focus on abilities if importance to them, and it might keep the numbers of applicants more manageable. #meded
Topic 3: External forces are blamed for the reliance on norm-based exams. How can #medschools include other #assessments without them being used as another screening tool for residency? #meded
What it will take is some brave residency to do the work, find a creative way to offset the cost, and ignore the urge to have 1000 applicants for 5 slots.
#meded
T3 #meded That's a brilliant idea. Instead of a day of interviews have more skill based exercises to assess readiness for residency! Programs could then customize to their needs and not an arbitrary standard.
Here’s a heretical thought: what if residencies did their own assessment? Then they could focus on abilities if importance to them, and it might keep the numbers of applicants more manageable. #meded
Topic 3: External forces are blamed for the reliance on norm-based exams. How can #medschools include other #assessments without them being used as another screening tool for residency? #meded
Certainly attractive as ideal state, but how do we disseminate to scale in a way that matches resource limitations? I know @JaniceEducation and colleagues will have great insights on this . . . #MedEd
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@GLBDallaghan, @JaniceEducation, @JaniceEducation
It is labor intensive, but you get richer data. I don’t think the answer is 100% one or the other, but probably some strategic qual work to support the quant info #meded
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@GLBDallaghan, @StephRStarr, @JaniceEducation
#meded at Zucker SOM @ZuckerSoM we use only essay exams and grade questions with one grader per question and use a rubric with points assigned to increase reliability-the students are receptive to exams and feel learnign is really assessed
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@GLBDallaghan, @StephRStarr, @JaniceEducation, @ZuckerSoM
Final thought: if assessment drives learning, we are laboring in a system where the assessments are focused on the wrong things. Time to fix this system! #MakeUSMLEPassFail#meded
