Comparison of Content on the American Board of Internal Medicine Maintenance of Certification Examination With Conditions Seen in Practice by General Internists.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Success on the internal medicine (IM) examination is a central requirement of the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM's) Maintenance of Certification program (MOC). Therefore, it is important to understand the degree to which this examination reflects conditions seen in practice, one dimension of content validity, which focuses on the match between content in the discipline and the topics on the examination questions.

Objective

To assess whether the frequency of questions on IM-MOC examinations were concordant with the frequency of conditions seen in practice.

Design, setting, and participants

The 2010-2013 IM-MOC examinations were used to calculate the percentage of questions for 186 medical condition categories from the examination blueprint, whic

SUBMITTER: Gray B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5815000 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature