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 Emergency Medicine consensus conference "Education Research in Emergency Medicine: Opportunities, Challenges, and Strategies for Success" where assessment for each core competency was discussed in detail. This article provides a description of the validity evidence behind current MK assessment tools used in EM and other specialties. Tools in widespread use are discussed, as well as emerging methods that may form valid assessments in the future. Finally, an agenda for future research is proposed to help address gaps in the current understanding of MK assessment.
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- Physicians
- Internship and Residency
- Humans
- Emergency Medicine
- Emergency & Critical Care Medicine
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- Education, Medical, Graduate
- Clinical Competence
- 3202 Clinical sciences
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Published In
DOI
EISSN
Publication Date
Volume
Issue
Start / End Page
Location
Related Subject Headings
- Physicians
- Internship and Residency
- Humans
- Emergency Medicine
- Emergency & Critical Care Medicine
- Educational Measurement
- Education, Medical, Graduate
- Clinical Competence
- 3202 Clinical sciences
- 1117 Public Health and Health Services