Development and Validation of a Test for Competence in Evidence-Based Medicine.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical educators need valid, reliable, and efficient tools to assess evidence-based medicine (EBM) knowledge and skills. Available EBM assessment tools either do not assess skills or are laborious to grade.

Objective

To validate a multiple-choice-based EBM test-the Resident EBM Skills Evaluation Tool (RESET).

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Participants

A total of 304 medicine residents from five training programs and 33 EBM experts comprised the validation cohort.

Main measures

Internal reliability, item difficulty, and item discrimination were assessed. Construct validity was assessed by comparing mean total scores of trainees to experts. Experts were also asked to rate importance of each test item to assess content validity.

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SUBMITTER: Patell R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7210361 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature