Assessing clinical competence: a multitrait-multimethod matrix construct validity study.

Education in Doctor of Medicine programs has moved towards an emphasis on clinical competency, with entrustable professional activities providing a framework of learning objectives and outcomes to be assessed within the clinical environment. While the identification and structured definition of objectives and outcomes have evolved, many methods employed to assess clerkship students' clinical skills remain relatively unchanged. There is a paucity of medical education research applying advanced statistical design and analytic techniques to investigate the validity of clinical skills assessment.

Taking More Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Practice Tests Does Not Lead to Improved National EM-M4 Exam Scores.

Introduction: Emergency medicine (EM) is a required clerkship for third-year medical students, and an elective EM acting internship (AI) is available to fourth-year students at our institution. The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine's (SAEM) National Emergency Medicine M4 Examination (EM-M4) is administered to students at the end of the EM AI experience. To prepare for the exam, students gain access to 23 practice tests available from SAEM.

Effect of Perceived Level of Interaction on Faculty Evaluations of 3rd Year Medical Students.

Introduction: Several factors are known to affect the way clinical performance evaluations (CPEs) of medical students are completed by supervising physicians. We sought to explore the effect of faculty perceived "level of interaction" (LOI) on these evaluations.

Methods: Our third-year CPE requires evaluators to identify perceived LOI with each student as low, moderate, or high.

The Impact of Shortened Clinical Clerkships on Medical Student Performance and Clerkship Assessment.

Intro: Medical schools sometimes need to adjust the length of third-year clinical clerkships. The literature surrounding the effects of shortened clerkships on student experience and performance is mixed.

Methods: Our medical school shortened the third year by an average of 20% per clerkship to accommodate a curricular re-design in 2018-2019.

Association of a Health Equity Curriculum With Medical Students' Knowledge of Social Determinants of Health and Confidence in Working With Underserved Populations.

Importance: National organizations recommend that medical schools train students in the social determinants of health.

Objective: To develop and evaluate a longitudinal health equity curriculum that was integrated into third-year clinical clerkships and provided experiential learning in partnership with community organizations.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This longitudinal cohort study was conducted from June 2017 to October 2020 to evaluate the association of the curriculum with medical students' self-reported knowledge of social determinants of health and confidence working with underserved populations.