These methods include the incorporation of well-designed clinical scenarios with pathological relevance into multiple choice questions (MCQs) and extended matching questions (EMQs), examples of which are given.
Assessment of student learning is achieved using a variety of written formats (essay, problem-solving questions [PSQ], multiple choice questions [MCQ] and extended matching questions [EMQ]), integrated oral examinations and objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs).
Online quizzes consisted of a range of MCQ and extended matching questions, covering the sections addressed in each module.
Reported Web-based assessments have included short-answer, multiple-choice questions, extended matching questions [ 21], case simulations [120] and more recently, standardised patients [ 22].
Other options to improve the testing abilities of the MCQ type of format is to use extended matching questions and uncued questions [ 19].
Each lesson is estimated to take one hour each and is followed by a lesson quiz with multiple choice questions (MCQ) and extended matching questions.
Both pre-test and post-test consisted of 40 extended matching questions about the four musculoskeletal regions that were studied in the learning task (10 questions each).
Aberdeen's written examination was an aggregate score of short answer questions (SAQs), extended matching questions (EMQs) and single best answer (SBA) questions.
Summative assessment of knowledge is undertaken through an end-of-year examination comprising single best answer questions and extended matching item questions in a similar format to the MRCS examination.
Multiple choice questions (MCQs), extended matching questions (EMQs), critical appraisal topics, essays and objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) are all forms of assessment that may examine, to a certain degree, learner competency in EBM [ 12- 14].
