COMLEX-USAResearchUpdate.pptVIP

COMLEX-USA NBOME’s Commitment to Research NBOME has been committed to high quality research to assure the validity and reliability of its test instruments Since 2000, NBOME has published or presented to national or international research conferences more than 30 papers Scope of NBOME’ Research Efforts New test design and development Test validation Test psychometric quality improvement Test quality control Osteopathic medical education Psychometrics in general “The Assessment of the Clinical Skills of Osteopathic Candidates Utilizing Osteopathic Manipulative Therapy in a High Stakes Osteopathic Medical Licensure Examination” (Meoli, F., Buser, B. Gimpel, J.) Results of the most recent NBOME field test demonstrated that osteopathic candidates can be objectively assessed on the ability to recognize the need for, and appropriately apply osteopathic manipulative therapy (OMT) in a high stakes structured clinical setting using standardized patients (SPs) “The Assessment of the Clinical Skills of Osteopathic Candidates Utilizing Osteopathic Manipulative Therapy in a High Stakes Osteopathic Medical Licensure Examination” (Meoli, F., Buser, B. Gimpel, J.) A paper presented to the annual meeting of International Association of Medical Regulatory Authorities, Dublin, Ireland, March 2004 “Meeting the challenges of osteopathic medical education: Satisfying technical standards and accommodation needs” (Smoley, J. Keiser, S.) Proposed specific technical requirements with both high and low-tech approaches for accommodating individuals with disabilities in osteopathic medical training settings A paper to be presented to the Fifth International Conference on Higher Education and Disability, Imsbruch, Austria, July 2004 “Assessing the ability of medical students to perform osteopathic manipulative techniques” (Boulet, J., Gimpel, J., Dowling, D. Finley, M.) Results of a NBOME performance assessment field test demonstrated that OMT can be assessed in the context of a multi-s