Designing Medical Test Questions (MCQs)

Designing Medical Test Questions (MCQs)

This course is designed to take you step by step through the process of developing quality test questions for your medical program exams. Here, we cover the fundamental principles of assessment in medical education and take a look at some practical examples of making MCQs. The best practices and guidelines for making questions are shown, as well as the common mistakes and pitfalls. This course is great for instructors for any of the health professions including medicine, nursing, pharmacology, dentistry and others. The knowledge and tips presented in this course are all evidence-based and extracted from the latest research in medical education.

Instructors taking this course will be show examples of good multiple choice questions and examples of bad multiple choice questions. In the process, we will go over the most common mistakes that medical educators make when designing exams and questions and how to avoid them. It is the aim of this course to help educators make their exams more reliable and valid through state of the art question design, solid exam decisions, careful review methods and overall awareness of good and bad practices in assessment.

The course is broke up into easy to follow sessions that include power point slides explaining each of the topics along with real examples of test items.

We hope that you both enjoy and benefit from the course.

How to make high quality test questions in medical education.

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What you will learn

• How to design high quality multiple choice test questions for health professions programs.

Rating: 4.33333

Level: All Levels

Duration: 2 hours

Instructor: M Bsiso