Understanding Assessment in Medical Education through Quality Assurance
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Optimize your assessment processes through Quality Assurance. This is a ground-breaking guide to ensuring quality assurance in the movement toward competency-based medical education
With the increasing globalization of medical education comes the need for mutual recognition of quality and standards. Understanding Assessment in Medical Education through Quality Assurance compiles and shares best practices from leading programs from around the globe. Authoritative approaches and processes that have been tested and refined show how to implement quality assurance of written, performance-and workplace-based assessments in medical education while maintaining regulatory standards.
As leading experts in the medical education world on this issue, the authors provide specific suggestions and showcase how their methods can be implemented with representative case studies. Medical educators and their students will benefit from this suite of evidence-based QA processes that they can immediately put into action for monitoring and ensuring continuous quality improvement.
Content highlights:
- The value of quality assurance (QA) and the role of QA assessors in assuring the quality of assessment
- International best practices in relation to quality assurance of programs of assessment, both within academic institutions and at national/international accreditation levels
- Quality assurance of Performance-based, workplace-based, written and programmatic assessment
- The role of technology in the quality assurance of assessment processes
- Approaches for assuring equivalence of assessment across diverse settings
- The ways in which medical education has changed in response to the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic