Emerging tasks of specialty certifying examination: educational measurement considerations

The final M.B.B.S. (certifying) examination.

Certifying Measurement Unit Safety Policy

Measurement unit safety policy checking is a topic in software analysis concerned with ensuring that programs do not violate basic principles of units of measurement. Such violations can hide significant domain-specific errors which are hard or impossible to find otherwise. Measurement unit analysis by means of automatic deduction is addressed in this paper. We draw general design principles fo...

Nuclear cardiology specialty examination technical report.

This report summarizes the development, administration, and scoring of the nuclear cardiology specialty examination offered by the Nuclear Medicine Technology Certification Board (NMTCB) at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine in Toronto, Canada, on June 23, 2001. During the NMTCB meeting in the fall of 2000, the Board approved the development and administration of an advanced ...

Bone Oncology—An emerging multi-disciplinary specialty

The skeleton and bone marrowmicroenvironment within bone acts as a critical organ for the development and spread of metastatic cancer. Bone metastases are common and have major impact on the physical function and quality of life of cancer patients. Over the last decade, as our understanding of the processes involved in metastasis has increased, it has become clear that bone marrow derived stem ...

Predictive Value of the Korean Academy of Family Medicine In-Training Examination for Certifying Examination

BACKGROUND In-training examination (ITE) is a cognitive examination similar to the written test, but it is different from the Clinical Practice Examination of the Korean Academy of Family Medicine (KAFM) Certification Examination (CE). The objective of this is to estimate the positive predictive value of the KAFM-ITE for identifying residents at risk for poor performance on the three types of K...