Showing 1 - 4 of 4 Research Library Publications

Revisiting Retake Policy: Analyzing the Success Rates of Examinees With Multiple Attempts on the United States Medical Licensing Examination

Posted: | Jonathan D. Rubright, Thai Q. Ong, Michael G. Jodoin, David A. Johnson, Michael A. Barone

Academic Medicine: Volume 97 - Issue 8 - Pages 1219-1225

 

Since 2012, the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) has maintained a policy of ≤ 6 attempts on any examination component. The purpose of this study was to empirically examine the appropriateness of existing USMLE retake policy.

Category:Product-Oriented Research, USMLE, Assessment-Oriented Research, Links to Outcomes

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 D'Eon and Kleinheksel

Posted: | Katie L. Arnhart, Monica M. Cuddy, David Johnson, Michael A. Barone, Aaron Young

Academic Medicine: Volume 97 - Issue 4 - Pages 476-477

 

Response to to emphasize that although findings support a relationship between multiple USMLE attempts and increased likelihood of receiving disciplinary actions, the findings in isolation are not sufficient for proposing new policy on how many attempts should be allowed.

Category:Product-Oriented Research, USMLE, Assessment-Oriented Research, Reliability/Validity, Links to Outcomes

Medical Student Experiences With Electronic Health Records Nationally: A Longitudinal Analysis Including School-Level Effects

Posted: | Monica M. Cuddy, Lauren M. Foster, Paul M. Wallach, Maya M. Hammoud, David B. Swanson

Academic Medicine: Volume 97 - Issue 2 - Pages 262-270

 

This study examined shifts in U.S. medical student interactions with EHRs during their clinical education, 2012–2016, and how these interactions varied by clerkship within and across medical schools.

Category:Health Professions