Showing 1 - 3 of 3 Research Library Publications

How the Quadruple Aim Widens the Lens on the Transition to Residency

Posted: | Michael A. Barone, Jessica L. Bienstock, Elise Lovell, John R. Gimpel, Grant L. Lin, Jennifer Swails, George C. Mejicano

Journal of Graduate Medical Education: Volume 14, Issue 6, Pages 634-638

 

This article discusses recent recommendations from the UME-GME Review Committee (UGRC) to address challenges in the UME-GME transition—including complexity, negative impact on well-being, costs, and inequities.

Category:Assessment-Oriented Research, Other, Health Professions

The Undergraduate to Graduate Medical Education Transition as a Systems Problem: A Root Cause Analysis

Posted: | Jennifer L. Swails, Steven Angus, Michael Barone, Jessica Bienstock, Jesse Burk-Rafel, Michelle Roett, Karen E. Hauer

Academic Medicine: Volume 98 - Issue 2 - Pages 180-187

 

This article describes the work of the Coalition for Physician Accountability’s Undergraduate Medical Education to Graduate Medical Education Review Committee (UGRC) to apply a quality improvement approach and systems thinking to explore the underlying causes of dysfunction in the undergraduate medical education (UME) to graduate medical education (GME) transition.

Category:Assessment-Oriented Research, Other, Health Professions

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