Cultural adaptation and assessment of validity evidence for scores obtained using a French version of the Tolerance of Ambiguity in Medical Students and Doctors scale

Preparing students to deal with and tolerate uncertainty or ambiguity is a major issue in medical education. There are many English-language scales assess tolerance of but no French-language scale has ever demonstrated validity evidence for its scores. We selected the Tolerance Ambiguity Medical Students And Doctors (TAMSAD) scale. Through structured process, original questionnaire was translated, culturally adapted, assessed after being administered sampling students. Test-retest reliability verified by presenting again two months. The assessment internal consistency revealed satisfactory value. intraclass correlation that presents good reproducibility scores obtained first completion second completion. These results indicate French version TAMSAD can be used students’ ambiguity.