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Our assessments are products of our deep psychometric expertise and meaningful collaborations with educators, physicians and health care professionals.

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Medical professionals working on assessments for NBME

What We Do

NBME creates high-quality assessments for the medical field, grounded in clinical needs and developed through deep collaboration with medical educators, practicing physicians and health care professionals. By using different assessment measures, our goal is to help medical learners grow over time by providing insights into their strengths and improvement opportunities.

We also provide consultative services to a number of health profession organizations.

Who We Work With

To help ensure our assessments meet the highest standards of quality and remain aligned with medical education and real-world practice, we engage with a wide network of collaborators. These include the volunteers who create exam questions, the committees and panels who represent various groups within the medical education community, external researchers and health profession organizations.

In total, we work with more than 500 carefully selected experts from different specialties and institutions across the country. We’re always searching for different perspectives. If you’d like to be considered, you can learn more on the NBME Volunteer Communities page.

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How We Do It

Behind every one of our assessments is an innovative and collaborative process that’s rooted in psychometric rigor and medical expertise. Our network of volunteers develops questions, also known as test items, that address the topics and challenges they encounter in their own practice and classrooms. But that’s just one part of what is an extensive process. Here’s a deeper dive into everything that goes into making our assessments.

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Where Else We’re Engaging

We’re also engaging with medical students, residents and medical education faculty and administrators to improve our exams and resources to better meet their needs and support development of new, innovative assessment methods.

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