Swiss general internal medicine board examination: quantitative effects of publicly available and unavailable questions on question difficulty and test performance

BACKGROUND: Formerly, a substantial number of the 120 multiple-choice questions of the Swiss Society of General Internal Medicine (SSGIM) board examination were derived from publicly available MKSAP questions (Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program®). The possibility to memorise publicly availa...

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Main Authors: Petra Ferrari Pedrini, Christoph Berendonk, Anne Ehle Roussy, Luca Gabutti, Thomas Hugentobler, Lilian Küng, Franco Muggli, Florian Neubauer, Simon Ritter, Alexandre Ronga, Andreas Rothenbühler, Monique Savopol, Hansueli Späth, Daniel Stricker, Daniel Widmer, Ulrich Stoller, Jürg Hans Beer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SMW supporting association (Trägerverein Swiss Medical Weekly SMW) 2022-03-01
Series:Swiss Medical Weekly
Online Access:https://smw.ch/index.php/smw/article/view/3165