NEJM Knowledge+ Launches Family Medicine Board Review Boston, Mass. — February 18, 2015 — Following the success of NEJM Knowledge+ Internal Medicine Board Review, NEJM Group, the organization behind The New England Journal of Medicine and NEJM Journal Watch, announces the addition of NEJM Knowledge+ Family Medicine Board Review to its growing portfolio of educational products. NEJM Knowledge+ Family Medicine Board Review includes the same adaptive learning technologies to increase learning efficiency and knowledge retention as NEJM Knowledge+ Internal Medicine Board Review, but this new product is designed expressly for family medicine physicians, residents, and physician assistants. Reflecting the ABFM ...
Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 24(3), 187–193 Copyright C 2012, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 1040-1334 print / 1532-8015 online DOI:10.1080/10401334.2012.692239 APPLIED RESEARCH Comparing a Script Concordance Examination to a Multiple-Choice Examination on a Core Internal Medicine Clerkship William Kelly, Steven Durning, and Gerald Denton Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA preferred by students. SC was more reliable and preferred when Background: Script concordance (SC) questions, in which a administered to house staff. learnerisgivenabriefclinicalscenariothenaskedifadditionalin- formation makes one hypothesis more or less likely, with answers compared to a ...
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SPECIAL ARTICLE The American Board of Internal Medicine Recertification Examination: Process and Results JOHN A. MESKAUSKAS, M.S., and GEORGE D. WEBSTER, M.D., F.A.O.P., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania On 26 October 1974, 3356 diplomates of the American ommendations were that recertification should be voluntary Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) took a 1-day written and educational, and that no one should lose his primary examination for recertification consisting of multiple-choice, certification as a result of the examination. In 1970, the matching, and true-false questions derived from the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians American College of ...