Assessing Medical Knowledge of Emergency Medicine Residents
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Assessing medical knowledge of emergency medicine residents.
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires that emergency medicine (EM) residency graduates are competent in the medical knowledge (MK) core competency. EM educators use a number of tools to measure a resident's progress toward this goal; it is not always clear whether these tools provide a valid assessment. A workshop was convened during the 2012 Academic Emergen...
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عنوان ژورنال: Academic Emergency Medicine
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1069-6563
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12033