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Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions J Educ Eval Health Prof 2015, 12: 43 • /10.3352/jeehp.2015.12.43 Open Access eISSN: 1975-5937 TECHNICAL REPORT An assessment blueprint for the Advanced Medical Life Support two-day prehospital emergency medical services training program in the United States Les R. Becker1*, Matt Vassar2 1Simulation Training Education Laboratory (SiTEL), MedStar Health, Washington, DC; 2Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, Tulsa, OK, USA Abstract Purpose: Traditional approaches to blueprint creation may focus on fine-grained detail at the expense of important foun- dational concepts. The purpose of this study was to develop a method for constructing an assessment blueprint to guide the creation of a new post-test for a two-day prehospital emergency medical services training program. Methods: In or- der to create the blueprint, we first determined the proportions of the total classroom and home-study minutes associat- ed with the lower- and higher-order cognitive objectives of each chapter of the textbook and the two-day classroom ac- tivities during training courses conducted from January to April 2015. These proportions were then applied to a 50-ques- tion test structure in order to calculate the number of desired questions by chapter and content type. Results: Our blue- print called for the test to contain an almost even split of lower- and higher-order cognitive questions. One-best-answer multiple choice items and extended matching-type item