Validity, reliability and acceptability of Professionalism Mini-Evaluation Exercise (P-MEX) for emergency medicine residency training.

Professionalism is a core competency in the medical profession. In this paper, we aimed to confirm the validity, reliability and acceptability of the Professionalism Mini-Evaluation Exercise (P-MEX) instrument for the emergency medicine (EM) residency program. Twenty-two EM attending physicians completed 383 P-MEX forms (the Persian version) for 90 EM residents.

Application of data mining techniques for predicting residents' performance on pre-board examinations: A case study.

Context: Predicting residents' academic performance is critical for medical educational institutions to plan strategies for improving their achievement.

Aims: This study aimed to predict the performance of residents on preboard examinations based on the results of in-training examinations (ITE) using various educational data mining (DM) techniques.

Settings And Design: This research was a descriptive cross-sectional pilot study conducted at Iran University of Medical Sciences, Iran.