Open-ended questionsencourage the patient or client to provide more information than closed questions do. Open-ended questions cannot be answered with one word or “Yes” or “No.” They often begin with words such as “how” or “what.” Some examples of open-ended questions include these:...
Written assessments fall into two classes:constructed-responseoropen-endedquestions, such as the essay and a number of variants of the short-answer question, andselected-responseorclosed-endedquestions; typically in the form of multiple-choice. It is widely believed that constructed response written q...
Medical AssessmentsRandomized Controlled TrialsLong-menu questions (LMQs) are viewed as an alternative method for answering open-ended questions (OEQs) in computerized assessment. So far this question type and its influence on examination scores have not been studied sufficiently. However, the ...
LLMs can accomplish specialized medical knowledge tasks, however, equitable access is hindered by the extensive fine-tuning, specialized medical data requirement, and limited access to proprietary models. Open-source (OS) medical LLMs show performance improvements and provide the transparency and complian...
In this paper, we propose a modified version of the MedQA-USMLE dataset, named MEDQA-OPEN, which contains open-ended medical questions without options to mimic clinical scenarios, along with clinician-approved reasoned answers. Additionally, we implement a prompt driven by Chain of Thought (CoT)...
The questionnaire was emailed to all clinicians with a link to the University of East Anglia Medical School. Open ended questions were included to elicit doctors ' opinions about both their own undergraduate training in statistics and recommendations for the training of current medical students. ...
The educational benefit of this peer-assessment was investigated using a post-course questionnaire. Students were asked about their attitudes on a 5-point Likert Scale statement and were also asked in an open-ended question about what they learnt from conducting peer-assessment. Questions and respons...
used an interview guide (eTable 1 in Supplement 1) consisting of open-ended questions and probes to encourage discussion. The interview guide was piloted with 2 Asian American medical students and iteratively revised throughout the interviews. Interviews lasted 37 to 79 minutes (median length, 58...
Most therapists are trained toask open-ended questions. Open-ended questions are ones that allow you to provide whatever amount of detail you want, rather than simply answering "yes" or "no." Open-ended questions encourage you to share relevant material about your life, your way of thinking,...
Examples of results from a mixed-methods study are used to demonstrate the argument. Conclusions: The article concludes that using a comparatively simple method of adding open-ended questions to a quantitative self-report based questionnaire methodology can add significant value and depth to both the...