NBME ASSESSMENT ALLIANCE

Through a variety of funded programs, the NBME Assessment Alliance engages directly with educators, learners, and other members of the health professions education community to identify how, together, we can best prepare the next generation to safely care for a diverse patient population. By providing resources to schools and other organizations, we hope to help accelerate problem solving, support promising initiatives and expand opportunities for new research.

Join the Assessment Alliance 

The Assessment Alliance Network (AAN) is a group of faculty members and learners from the health professions education community who collaborate with NBME on research and assessment development. Members include NBME Staff, subject matter experts (SMEs), panelists, and medical school contacts (for student recruitment through our Pilot Network) who support testing and feedback.

NBME invites experts and medical schools to help shape the future of assessment. If you are interested in contributing to innovative research and the development of new assessments, we encourage you to apply. Click here to submit your application and become the next member of the Assessment Alliance Network (AAN) or Assessment Alliance Pilot Network (AAPN).

Co-Creation: NBME and the Community

We cannot innovate alone. It requires partnership, collaboration, and a deep understanding of the educational context. The most collaborative model within the Assessment Alliance is that of the Creative Communities—initiatives that bring together diverse perspectives from the medical education field with NBME assessment experts to research and co-create novel, innovative solutions to the most pressing challenges in medical education. Want to learn more? Select a Creative Community below to explore its goals, participants, and the insights emerging from this work.

Community of Practice 

The Communication Learning Assessment Community of Practice (CLA CoP) is designed to help medical schools successfully integrate CLA into their curriculum. This community brings course directors and faculty users from multiple schools together to share experiences, address challenges, and develop best practices for implementing CLA. Click here to learn more about the CLA and how join our CoP.