BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The American Board of Family Practice In-training Examination (ABFP ITE) is a cognitive examination similar in content to the ABFP Certification Examination (CE). The ABFP ITE is widely used in family medicine residency programs. It was originally developed and intended to be used for assessment of groups of residents. Despite lack of empirical support, however, some r...

Sound pressure measurements were made at the hearing aid microphones of 20 subjects with their in-the-ear (ITE) hearing aids and a behind-the-ear (BTE) hearing aid to determine the influence of microphone location on hearing aid input. A probe tube microphone was used to measure the difference in dB SPL between the ITE and BTE microphone locations. ITE microphone location resulted in a maximum ...

INTRODUCTION There is great variation in the knowledge base of Emergency Medicine (EM) interns in July. The first objective knowledge assessment during residency does not occur until eight months later, in February, when the American Board of EM (ABEM) administers the in-training examination (ITE). In 2013, the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) released the EM Advanced Clinical Examina...

INTRODUCTION Audience response systems (ARS) are increasingly popular; however, their contribution to education is not completely clear. Our study found that scores from review quizzes delivered by an ARS correlate with in-training exam (ITE) scores and are viewed positively by residents. This information may be useful in identifying poor performers early so that targeted educational interventi...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to determine which measurable factors of resident training experience contribute to improvement of in-training examination (ITE) and certifying examination (CE) scores. METHODS This is a descriptive retrospective study analyzing data from July 2003 through June 2006 at a large academic pediatric training program. Pediatric categorical residents beginning r...

AND MORTIMER GARRISON, JR. T HERE IS considerable interest currently with respect to the acid elution metho)d of Kleihauer, Braun and Betke1 for detecting cytologically those circulating erythrocytes which have an appreciable content of fetal hemoglobin (“F-containing cells” ) . The method is based on the lower solubility of alkaliresistant or fetal hemoglobin in an acid environment as compared...

Cet article prŽsente une Žvaluation des performances des Žquations d'Žtats (EoS) cubiques pour la prŽvision des comportements de phases des mŽlanges hyperbares. Il met en Žvidence un certain nombre de problmes auxquels il devrait tre rŽpondu d'une manire coopŽrative. Les points relatifs ˆ la dŽfinition des paramtres des EoS, tels que les coefficients d'interaction, les propriŽtŽs critiques ...

BACKGROUND Currently, residency programs lack objective predictors for passing the sequenced American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) certification examinations on the first attempt. Our hypothesis was that performance on the ABA/American Society of Anesthesiologists In-Training Examination (ITE) and other variables can predict combined success on the ABA Part 1 and Part 2 examinations. METHOD ...

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