Addressing Assessment in Libyan Medical Education

Addressing Assessment in Libyan Medical Education

ASSESSMENT IS A POWERFUL DRIVER OF STUDENT LEARNING: it gives a message to learners about what they should be learning, what the learning organisation believes to be important, and how they should go about learning. Assessment tools allow measurement of student achievement and thereby give teachers insight into their students' learning, and enable teachers to make systematic judgements about pr...

Libyan Medical Education; Time to Move Forward

Medical education is a key factor in the progress of any country. The advancement of any nation is based in part on this type of education. Medical education worldwide has improved immensely over the past two decades, having undergone major changes. The progress of developing countries can be judged based on how they incorporate this field of education into everyday life, and how this impacts t...

Assessment in medical education.

Copyright © 2007 Massachusetts Medical Society. A s an attending physician working with a student for a week, you receive a form that asks you to evaluate the student’s fund of knowledge, procedural skills, professionalism, interest in learning, and “systems-based practice.” You wonder which of these attributes you can reliably assess and how the data you provide will be used to further the stu...

Medical education: addressing questions that require attention

Assessment methods in medical education

Since the 1950s, there has been rapid and extensive change in the way assessment is conducted in medical education. Several new methods of assessment have been developed and implemented over this time and they have focused on clinical skills (taking a history from a patient and performing a physical examination), communication skills, procedural skills, and professionalism. In this paper, we pr...