Standard setting methods in medical education: high‐stakes assessment

AF De Champlain - Understanding medical education …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Standard setting is a process that allows human judgements to be synthesised in a rational
and defensible way to facilitate the partitioning of a score scale into two or more categories …

[PDF][PDF] The lack of systematic training for health care providers, a challenge for providing pediatric palliative home care: a comparative study

A Eshaghian-dorcheh, M Zandi, M Rassouli… - International Journal of …, 2019 - sid.ir
Background: The growing prevalence of chronic diseases in children has increased their
need for palliative care. We aimed to compare pediatric palliative care and home care …

[HTML][HTML] UK postgraduate medicine examinations: opportunities for international candidates

L McAlpine, E Selamaj, C Shannon, L Chis… - Clinical …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The medical profession is global, and ambitious trainee physicians around the world are
eager to attain internationally recognised postgraduate medical qualifications. The MRCP …

The virtual bronchoscopy simulator–a young physician's view

E Heiden - Clinical Medicine, 2012 - rcpjournals.org
Specialty specific examinations (SCEs) were first piloted in 2006 by the Joint Royal Colleges
Postgraduate Training Boards (JRCPTB) and are now a compulsory requirement for …

Respiratory specialty specific examinations in the south west

ARL Medford, A Jeyabalan - Clinical Medicine, 2012 - rcpjournals.org
Specialty specific examinations (SCEs) were first piloted in 2006 by the Joint Royal Colleges
Postgraduate Training Boards (JRCPTB) and are now a compulsory requirement for …

The role of the final FRCR examination in specialist training in clinical oncology

JJ McAleer, RJ Grieve - Clinical Oncology, 2011 - clinicaloncologyonline.net
This witty Irishman's scathing analysis of examinations has a certain resonance with those of
us who took professional examinations, such as FRCR, in days gone by, although our claim …

[HTML][HTML] Medical specialty certification exams studied according to the Ottawa Quality Criteria: a systematic review

D Staudenmann, N Waldner, A Lörwald… - BMC medical …, 2023 - Springer
Background Medical specialty certification exams are high-stakes summative assessments
used to determine which doctors have the necessary skills, knowledge, and attitudes to treat …