Deans, Zuzana, Moorlock, Greg and Trimble, Michael (2024) The medical licensing assessment will fall short of determining whether a UK medical graduate behaves ethically. British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 85 (1). doi:10.12968/hmed.2023.0370 ISSN 1750-8460. (In Press)
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Abstract
UK medical graduates will soon need to pass the medical licensing assessment, which assesses skills and knowledge in ethics using multiple choice questions (eg single best answer questions) and objective structured clinical examination. However, educational leaders have recognised that these methods lack the sophistication needed to accurately assess medical ethics. The reasons are two-fold. First, there may be a knowledge and practice gap in medical schools when it comes to preparing students for the assessment. To this end, this article shares peer advice about how best to use objective structured clinical examinations and single best answer questions for assessing medical ethics to help prepare students for the medical licensing assessment. Second, the design of the assessment is unlikely to adequately measure graduates' ethical values and behaviour in real world scenarios. Further work is needed to design assessments that are sophisticated enough to examine candidates' ethical reasoning and their actual behaviour.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
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Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router |
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Medical ethics -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain, Medicine -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain, Medical students -- Great Britain |
Journal or Publication Title: | British Journal of Hospital Medicine |
Publisher: | Mark Allen Publishing Ltd. |
ISSN: | 1750-8460 |
Official Date: | 2 January 2024 |
Dates: | Date Event 2 January 2024 Published 17 January 2024 Available 9 November 2023 Accepted |
Volume: | 85 |
Number: | 1 |
DOI: | 10.12968/hmed.2023.0370 |
Status: | Peer Reviewed |
Publication Status: | In Press |
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons open licence) |
Date of first compliant deposit: | 14 March 2024 |
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 March 2024 |
URI: | https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/182900/ |
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