Assessment of Professional Behaviors Materials Available in DREAM

The NBME is pleased to announce that its Assessment of Professional Behaviors (APB) program is now available through the Directory and Repository of Educational Assessment Measures (DREAM), a peer-reviewed collection of tools within MedEdPORTAL. The APB program materials are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license, and are thus free for use in the educational setting.

The APB program was developed to support continuous learning around communication and interpersonal skills, professionalism, and practice-based learning and improvement. It is centered on a multisource feedback instrument, designed to be administered using an electronic evaluation system. The materials available for download include assessment instruments, implementation guidance, sample feedback reports, and training modules for raters and for feedback facilitators. A third-party, peer -reviewed critical analysis is included in the download package.

You can access the APB material here. After more than 10 years of development, the NBME is pleased to provide this tool as a service to the educational community.