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AAMC NBME Committee Update
September 2008
The FSMB is undergoing a comprehensive review process and looking
at its organizational structure.
The FSMB editorial board has been reorganized with a new editor-in-chief position that is selected by the board.
The Federation is looking into new indicators of state medical
board performance.
NBME:
- General overview of goings on at the NBME
- Mention of services provided directly for students, such as self
assessments for board exam preparation
- The NBME hopes that feedback from the USMLE review can be used to
help improve the upcoming MCAT review process
- At the 2008 AAMC Annual Meeting the NBME will host a FAME (Fundamentals
of Assessment of Medical Education) session
- There is an AAMC/NBME partnership with Medbiquitous to look at portable
physician portfolios
CEUP:
- Overview of the CEUP
- Timeline:
- October: The composite committee meets and will ideally develop
models for the future licensing exams, which would be distributed
for feedback and suggestions
- January: Models and feedback would come back to the composite
cmte
- NBME recognizes that a change in licensing exams will have a
large influence on medical school curriculum and that any and
all changes need to take place with ample (1) time to inform and
(2) time to allow changes to curriculum prior to implementation
of a new licensing exam structure,
- This process is expected to take a minimum of three years (most
likely closer to five );
- that there is ample flexibility in the shaping of the new exams
at this point; no model has even been proposed at this point (this
will happen in October)
- the point from the CEUP report that the primary point of the 'step'
exams is licensure and that secondary uses were supported provided
they did not interfere with the primary purpose of the exams,
- After a discussion of the use of board scores for residency placement,
it was stated that the new exam models would be created "sensitive
to the needs of secondary stakeholders."
Matthew Rudy
OSR Chair-Elect
AAMC Student Liaison
Medical College of Georgia
mrudy@mail.mcg.edu
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