Sometimes Means Some of the Time: Residents' Overlapping Responses to Vague Quantifiers on the ACGME-I Resident Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Vague quantifiers used in the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-International (ACGME-I) resident survey are open to interpretation, raising concerns about the validity of survey scores. Residency programs may be unduly cited if survey responses are affected by differing judgments of vague quantifiers.

Objective

Through investigating frequency judgment overlap, we assessed the validity of vague quantifiers by quantifying variation in residents' frequency judgment of the following response options: never, rarely, sometimes, very often, and extremely often.

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional survey of residents in 2 ACGME-I accredited institutions in Singapore. Participants assigned a frequency judgment

SUBMITTER: Yock Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5734329 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature