BACKGROUND Web-based resources are commonly used by medical students to supplement curricular material. Three commonly used resources are UpToDate (Wolters Kluwer Inc), digital textbooks, and Wikipedia; there are concerns, however, regarding Wikipedia's reliability and accuracy. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of Wikipedia use on medical students' short-term knowled...

SIR—Healthcare professionals have been recently prompted by leaders of the American Association of Clinical Chemistry, the American Diabetes Association, the American Society of Nephrology and the College of American Pathologists as well as the National Kidney Disease Education Program to report estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) by all hospital and commercial laboratories in the USA, ...

Background The Mild Cognitive Impairment Questionnaire (MCQ) is a 13-item measure that assesses health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in people with mild cognitive impairment (PWMCI); it has two domains assessing the emotional and practical effects. Objective The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of the MCQ. Design This is a longitudinal questionnaire-based study....

Pepple DJ, Young LE, Carroll RG. A comparison of student performance in multiple-choice and long essay questions in the MBBS stage I physiology examination at the University of the West Indies (Mona Campus). Adv Physiol Educ 34: 86–89, 2010; doi: 10.1152/advan.00087.2009.—This retrospective study compared the performance of preclinical medical students in the multiple-choice question (MCQ) and ...

OBJECTIVES This study investigated the applicability of the self-regulatory executive functioning (S-REF) model to performance test anxiety (PTA) in objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs). Specifically, it examined the relative contributions of metacognitive beliefs, trait worry and attentional control to PTA. METHODS A cross-sectional design was used. Immediately prior to their f...

OBJECTIVE To devise a guide for faculty to interpret Psychometric Analysis of MCQs followed by its assessment. STUDY DESIGN Across-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Shifa College of Medicine, Islamabad, from January to July 2009. METHODOLOGY A simplified interpretation guide comprising of a visual format and an interpretive summary was designed for faculty members to help them ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the psychometric worth of Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQs) and Short-Essay Questions (SEQs) used in internal summative assessment of undergraduate ophthalmology annual send-up examination and to ascertain the quality of items using subjective measures. STUDY DESIGN Correlational analytical study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Fatima Jinnah Medical College, Lahore, from ...

Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Data (QoD) are the two major dimensions for evaluating any query processing system. In the context of data stream management systems (DSMSs), multi-query scheduling has been exploited to improve QoS. In this paper, we are proposing to exploit query scheduling to improve QoD in DSMSs. Specifically, we are presenting a new policy for scheduling multiple con...

Introduction One of the major concerns in the construction of test items for an examination is ensuring the reliability of the test items. In order for assessments to be sound, they must be free of bias and distortion. Reliability and validity are two concepts that are important for defining and measuring bias and distortion. Internal consistency is an estimate of reliability based on the avera...

BACKGROUND Clinicians making decisions require the ability to self-monitor and evaluate their certainty of being correct while being mindful of the potential consequences of alternative actions. For clinical students, this ability could be inferred from their responses to multiple-choice questions (MCQ) by recording their certainty in correctness and avoidance of options that are potentially un...