Introduction. Medical education curriculum improvements can be achieved by evaluating students’ performance. Medical students have to pass two undergraduate comprehensive examinations, basic science and preinternship, in Iran. To measure validity of the students’ mean score in comprehensive basic science exam (CBSE) for predicting their performance in later curriculum phases. Methods. This de...

OBJECTIVE Oral and long case clinical examinations are open to subjective influences to some extent, and students may be marked unfairly as a result of gender or racial bias or language problems. These concerns are of topical relevance in South Africa. The purpose of this study was to assess whether these factors influenced the marks given in these examinations. METHODS Final-year surgery exa...

PURPOSE To determine whether disclosure of scoring rubric for objective basic clinical skills can improve the scores on the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) in medical students. METHODS Clinical performance score results of one university medical students (study group, n=345) were compared to those of another university (control group, n=1,847). Both groups took identical OSCE...

BACKGROUND The use of objective structured clinical examination in pediatrics is not common in undergraduate evaluation process. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of objective structured clinical examination as compare to conventional examination as formative assessment tool in Pediatrics. METHODS We conducted a cross sectional comparative study in defined population of 9th semester M...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to determine which measurable factors of resident training experience contribute to improvement of in-training examination (ITE) and certifying examination (CE) scores. METHODS This is a descriptive retrospective study analyzing data from July 2003 through June 2006 at a large academic pediatric training program. Pediatric categorical residents beginning r...

After briefly reviewing theories of standard setting we analyzed the problems of the current cut scores. Then, we reported the results of need assessment on the standard setting among medical educators and psychometricians. Analyses of the standard setting methods of developed countries were reported as well. Based on these findings, we suggested the Bookmark and the modified Angoff methods as ...

introduction: breast neoplasia is the most common cancer among women in both developed and developing countries. over 1.15 million women in the world detecting with breast neoplasia each year and the mortality rate is 502,000 cases from this cancer. the purpose of this study was to describe how iranian women perform breast self-examination. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study 4...