Assessment of clinical competence on the emergency medicine specialty certification examination: The validity of examiner ratings of simulated clinical encounters

The assessment of clinical competence on

The assessment of clinical competence on the emergency medicine specialty certification examination: The validity of clinically relevant multiple-choice items

✍ Steven M. Downing 📂 Article 📅 1980 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 280 KB

This study investigated the effect of clinically relevant multiple-choice item content on the valid discrimination or statistical separation of groups with known and different levels of experience and training in emergency medicine. Items for a high-clinical-relevance (HCR) subscale were chosen for