Minimum accepted competency examination: test item analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To ascertain if undergraduate medical students attain adequate knowledge to practice in paediatrics, we designed the minimum accepted competency (MAC) examination. This was a set of MCQ's designed to test the most basic, 'must know' knowledge as determined by non-faculty paediatric clinicians. Only two-thirds of undergraduate students passed this exam, despite 96% of the same cohort passing their official university paediatric examination. We aim to describe the psychometric properties of the MAC examination to explore why there was a difference in student performance between these two assessments which should, in theory, be testing the same subject area. We will also investigate if the MAC examination is a potentially reliable method of assessing undergraduate knowledge

SUBMITTER: McCrossan P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9131523 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature