Progress Testing for Postgraduate Medical Education: A Four-Year Experiment of American College of Osteopathic Surgeons Resident Examinations

Advances in Health Sciences Education

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 117-129

  Shen, Linjun ^a  

^a Natl Bd Osteopathic Med Examiners   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Evaluation; Graduate medical education; Item response theory; Longitudinal analysis; Progress testing; Psychometrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010186556     PISSN: 13824996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009889723165     Document Type: Article

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