Exam Review Working Group

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charge

The Exam Review Working Group was established in 2005, as a sub-group or satellite group of the Fast Track Credentials System (FTCS) Working Group and was asked to:

• Review the stated purpose of various physician licensure/registration exams
  
  
• Assess the examination construction process
  
  
• Examine the level and scope of entry requirements
  
  
• Examine the examination formats
  
  
• Examine the scope of the exams (for equivalency in coverage of areas of medicine)
  
  
• Examine equivalency in assessment standards and pass rates
  
  
• Examine equivalency of the time period the exams are current
  
  
• Assess the flexibility of various examination formats that may allow inclusion of region specific content, i.e., cultural considerations
  
  
• Review any available research that would link examination performances with future performance as a doctor
  
  
• Examine equivalency in security measures
  
  

The group reported its findings at IAMRA's 7th International Conference on Medical Regulation in November 2006.

In view of the valuable work achieved to date, the Management Committee has reinstated the Exam Review Working Group.  In addition to the above, the Exam Review Working Group is charged it to:

• Expand its assessment of examinations for medical licensure/registration
  
  
• Investigate methods and approaches for achieving greater parity between licensure/registration examinations
  
  
• Identify best practices or principles for licensure/registration examinations
  
  

• Identify potential strategies for recognition of substantial equivalencies in licensure/registration examinations
  
  

list of members

Chair

Professor Kenneth Cochran

Members

Dr. Ducksun Ahn

Jack Boulet

Ian Bowmer

Gerry Dillon, PhD

Sue Ineson

Mr. Steven Lillis

Frederick G. Meoli, DO, FACOS

Reza Nassiri

Kate Reed

Ruth Thompson