Relationship between performance on the NBME® Comprehensive Clinical Science Self-Assessment and USMLE® Step 2 Clinical Knowledge for USMGs and IMGs.

Background: The Comprehensive Clinical Science Self-Assessment (CCSSA) is a web-administered multiple-choice examination that includes content that is typically covered during the core clinical clerkships in medical school. Because the content of CCSSA items resembles the content of the items on Step 2 Clinical Knowledge (CK), CCSSA is intended to be a tool for students to help assess whether they are prepared for Step 2 CK and to become familiar with its content, format, and pacing.

Purposes: This study examined the relationship between performance on the National Board of Medical Examiners® CCSSA and performance on the United States Medical Licensing Examination® Step 2 CK for U.

Relationship between performance on the NBME Comprehensive Basic Sciences Self-Assessment and USMLE Step 1 for U.S. and Canadian medical school students.

Background: This study examined the relationship between performance on the National Board of Medical Examiners Comprehensive Basic Science Self-Assessment (CBSSA) and performance on United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1.

Method: The study included 12,224 U.S.

Progress testing in clinical science education: results of a pilot project between the National Board of Medical Examiners and a US Medical School.

Background: Though progress tests have been used for several decades in various medical education settings, a few studies have offered analytic frameworks that could be used by practitioners to model growth of knowledge as a function of curricular and other variables of interest.

Aim: To explore the use of one form of progress testing in clinical education by modeling growth of knowledge in various disciplines as well as by assessing the impact of recent training (core rotation order) on performance using hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) and analysis of variance (ANOVA) frameworks.

Methods: This study included performances across four test administrations occurring between July 2006 and July 2007 for 130 students from a US medical school who graduated in 2008.

The essential elements of undergraduate medical education in obstetrics and gynecology: a comparison of the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics Medical Student Educational Objectives and the National Board of Medical Examiners Subject Examination.

Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate whether the essential elements of the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO) Medical Student Educational Objectives were adequately represented on the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) obstetrics and gynecology subject examination, and that the topics questioned on that examination were covered by the APGO objectives.

Study Design: The Undergraduate Medical Education Committee of APGO and the NBME staff separately reviewed the same 2 NBME obstetrics and gynecology subject examinations. The questions were mapped to the 15 essential elements of the APGO educational objectives and comparisons were made to check how well they matched.

Using the NBME self-assessments to project performance on USMLE Step 1 and Step 2: impact of test administration conditions.

Problem Statement And Background: This study examined the extent to which performance on the NBME(R) Comprehensive Basic Science Self-Assessment (CBSSA) and NBME Comprehensive Clinical Science Self-Assessment (CCSSA) can be used to project performance on USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 examinations, respectively.

Method: Subjects were 1,156 U.S.

Development and analysis of a new certifying examination in perioperative transesophageal echocardiography.

Unlabelled: A key element in developing a process to determine knowledge and ability in applying perioperative echocardiography has included an examination. We report on the development of a certifying examination in perioperative echocardiography. In addition, we tested the hypothesis that examination performance is related to clinical experience in echocardiography.