Comparison of emergency medical residency pre-board and board exams among universities of medical sciences in Iran

Barzegar, Mohammad and Ghaffari, Reza and Rahmani, Farzad and Ghaffarzad, Amir and Soltani Zangbar, Hamid and Fallahi, Solmaz and Jafari-Rouhi, Amir Hossein (2020) Comparison of emergency medical residency pre-board and board exams among universities of medical sciences in Iran. Research and Development in Medical Education, 9 (1). p. 9. ISSN 2322-2719

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Abstract

Background: Designing and conducting residency exams have been the province of type I universities since 2005, based on the plans of the Medical Education Council. This study compared emergency medical residency pre-board and board exam results among the universities of medical sciences in Iran.

Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive study consisted of 600 questions from residency preboard exams and 150 questions from board exams in 2013-2014, as well as 600 questions from residency promotion exams and 150 questions from the board exam in 2013-2014 and 2014- 2015 at the Tabriz, Shahid Beheshti, Mashhad, and Tehran Universities of Medical Sciences. All questions were at the level I through III by Bloom’s taxonomy. Structural principles were evaluated using Millman’s checklist. All data were analyzed using SPSS 18 with chi-square tests.

Results: The mean percent of more contextualized questions of the questions at Bloom’s taxonomy levels II and III in residency pre-board exam questions was 76.6% in 2013-2014 and 86.6% in 2014-2015 among the four universities. In terms of structural principles, the percentage of board exam questions that aligned with Millman’s structural principles was 100.0% and 99.3% in 2013-2014 and 2014-2015, respectively. For the residency pre-board exam in 2014- 2015, the mean discrimination index was 0.14 (low), and the mean of the difficulty factor was 0.64 (appropriate).

Conclusion: Questions at Bloom’s taxonomy levels II and III were higher in 2014-2015 in comparison to those in 2013-2014, and the percentage of the correctly-structured questions was high and did not significantly change from 2013-2014 in comparison to that of 2014-2015.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: STM Repository > Medical Science
Depositing User: Managing Editor
Date Deposited: 19 May 2023 05:11
Last Modified: 18 Jun 2024 06:46
URI: http://classical.goforpromo.com/id/eprint/3285

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