In this context, evidence of the quality of this examination is essential. This chapter reviews evidence of its reliability and also of its validity, the latter based on various independent perspectives: (1) validity of content, (2) internal structure of the exam, (3) relationship of EUNACOM...
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) temporarily extended the validity period for Form I-693, Report of Medical Examination and Vaccination Record, from two years to four years due to COVID-19 pandemic-related delays in processing. USCIS said it may consider a completed ...
There has been an increase in the use of pre-admission selection tests for medicine. Such tests need to show good psychometric properties. Here, we use a paper by Emery and Bell as a case study to evaluate and comment on the reporting of psychometric data in the field of medical student ...
Reliability and validity of the objective structured clinical examination in paediatrics Summary. The assessment of clinical competence has traditionally been carried out through standard evaluations such as multiple choice question and bedside... DG Matsell,NM Wolfish,E Hsu - 《Medical Education》 被引...
13 Nov 2024 The USCIS changed immigration medical policy, assigning indefinite validity to the Form I-693 medical exam filed with green card cases for certain Afghan nationals, who entered the U.S. during Operation Allies Welcome. APolicy Alertexplains the change with a link to the full USCIS...
Most research into the validity of graduate medical education in-training examinations has focused on construct validity and concurrent validity issues. This study examined the predictive validity of the American Board of Family Practice In-Training Examination using multivariate analysis of all U.S. fam...
mCEX physical exam with ABIM physical exam; mCEX clinical judgment with ABIM clinical judgment, medical care, medical knowledge, and the ITE; mCEX humanistic attributes with ABIM humanistic attributes, and mCEX overall clinical competence with ABIM overall clinical competence, medical care, medical knowl...
The researcher can then compare the college entry exam scores of 100 students to their GPA after one semester in college. If the scores of the two tests are close, then the college entry exam has criterion validity. When your test agrees with the criterion variable, it has high criterion va...
Survey responses on receipt of a mammogram, ultrasound, fine needle aspiration, surgical biopsy, or clinical breast exam for diagnostic evaluation of the breast abnormality were compared to medical record data. The authors calculated concordance, Cohen's κ statistic, and sensitivity and specificity. ...
Lack of a universally accepted, easily applied, outcome measure is one reason why urinary incontinence in women is poorly evaluated and treated. he severity index, developed by Sandvik et al, is short and simple enough for use in almost any context. We evaluated the reliability, validity, and...