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The USMLE® Step 2 Clinical Skills Patient Note Corpus

Posted: | Victoria Yaneva, Janet Mee, Le Ha, Polina Harik, Michael Jodoin, Alex Mechaber

Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - p 2880–2886

 

This paper presents a corpus of 43,985 clinical patient notes (PNs) written by 35,156 examinees during the high-stakes USMLE® Step 2 Clinical Skills examination.

Category:Product-Oriented Research, USMLE

In Reply to Spadafore and Monrad

Posted: | J. Salt, P. Harik, M. A. Barone

Academic Medicine: July 2019 - Volume 94 - Issue 7 - p 926-927

 

A response to concerns regarding potential bias in the implementation of machine learning (ML) to scoring of the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 2 Clinical Skills (CS) patient notes (PN).

Category:Product-Oriented Research, USMLE

Impact of Both Local Item Dependencies and Cut-Point Locations on Examinee Classifications

Posted: | J. D. Rubright

Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 37: 40-45

 

This simulation study demonstrates that the strength of item dependencies and the location of an examination systems’ cut‐points both influence the accuracy (i.e., the sensitivity and specificity) of examinee classifications. Practical implications of these results are discussed in terms of false positive and false negative classifications of test takers.

Category:Assessment-Oriented Research, General Measurement, Scoring