Articles and Book Chapters by FAIMER Staff
Names of FAIMER staff are shown in bold.
In Press
Boulet JR. Summative assessment in medicine: the promise of simulation for high-stakes evaluation. Academic Emergency Medicine (in press).
Nishisaki A, Scrattish L, Boulet J, Kalsi M, Maltese M, Castner T, et al. Effect of cervical spine immobilization technique on pediatric advanced airway management: A high fidelity infant simulation model. Pediatric Emergency Care (in press).
Norcini JJ, McKinley DW. Standard Setting. In: Dent J, Harden R, editors. A Practical Guide for Medical Teachers, 3rd ed. Edinburgh: Elsevier (in press).
2008
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Boulet JR, Murray D, Kras J, Woodhouse J. Setting performance standards for mannequin-based acute care scenarios: an examinee centered approach. Simulation in Healthcare. 2008;3(2):72-81.
McKinley DW, Williams SR, Norcini JJ, Anderson MB. International exchange programs and U.S. medical schools. Academic Medicine. 2008;83(10):S53-S57.
Morahan PS, Fleetwood J. The double helix of activity and scholarship: Building a medical education career with limited resources. Medical Education. 2008;42(1):34-44.
Norcini JJ, van Zanten M, Boulet JR. The contribution of international medical graduates to diversity in the U.S. physician workforce: Graduate medical education. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 2008;19(2):493-499.
van Zanten M, Boulet JR. Medical education in the Caribbean: Variability in medical school programs and performance of graduates. Academic Medicine. 2008;83(10):S33-S36.
van Zanten M, Norcini JJ, Boulet JR, Simon F. Overview of accreditation of undergraduate medical education programmes worldwide. Medical Education. 2008;42(9):930-937.
Worzala K, Rattner SL, Boulet JR, Majdan JF, Berg DD, Robeson M, Veloski JJ. Evaluation of the congruence between students’ postencounter notes and standardized patients’ checklists in a clinical skills examination. Teaching and Learning in Medicine. 2008;20(1):31-36.
Booklets and Book Chapters
Boulet JR, Errichetti A. Training and assessment with standardized patients. In: Riley RH, editor. Manual of simulation in healthcare. New York: Oxford University Press; 2008. p. 181-197.
Hawkins RE, Boulet JR. Direct observation: Standardized patients. In: Holmboe ES, Hawkins RE, editors. Practical Guide to the Evaluation of Clinical Competence. Philadelphia: Mosby/Elsevier; 2008. p. 102-118.
2007
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Boulet J, Bede C, McKinley D, Norcini J. An overview of the world’s medical schools. Medical Teacher. 2007;29(1):20-26.
Boulet JR, McKinley DW, Rebbecchi T, Whelan GP. Does composition medium affect the psychometric properties of scores on an exercise designed to assess written medical communication skills? Advances in Health Sciences Education: Theory and Practice. 2007;12(2):157-167.
Burdick W. Challenges and issues in health professions education in Africa. Medical Teacher. 2007;29(9):882-886
Burdick WP, Morahan PS, Norcini JJ. Capacity building in medical education and health outcomes in developing countries: the missing link. Education for Health. 2007;20(3):65.
Crossley J, Russell J, Jolly B, Ricketts C, Roberts C, Schuwirth L, Norcini J. ‘I’m pickin’ up good regressions’: The governance of generalisability analyses. Medical Education. 2007;41(10):926-934.
Gimpel JR, Weidner AC, Boulet JR, Wilson C, Errichetti A. Standardized patients and mechanical simulators in teaching and assessment at osteopathic medical schools. Journal of the American Osteopathic Association. 2007;107(12):557-561.
Hallock JA, McKinley DW, Boulet JR. Migration of doctors for undergraduate medical education. Medical Teacher. 2007;29(2&3):98-105.
Jafri W, Mumtaz K, Burdick WP, Morahan PS, Freeman R, Zehra T. Improving the teaching skills of residents as tutors/facilitators and addressing the shortage of faculty facilitators for PBL modules. BMC Medical Education. 2007;7:34.
Longombe AO, Burch V, Luboga S, Mkony C, Olapade-Olaopa EO, Otieno-Nyunya B, Afolabi B, Nwobodo E, Kiguli S, Burdick WP, Boulet JR, Morahan PS. Research on medical migration from sub-Saharan medical schools: usefulness of a feasibility process to define barriers to data collection and develop a practical study. Education for Health. 2007;20(1):27.
Murray DJ, Boulet JR, Avidan M, Kras JF, Henrichs B, Woodhouse J, Evers AS. Performance of residents and anesthesiologists in a simulation-based skill assessment. Anesthesiology. 2007;107(5):705-13.
Norcini J, Burch V. Workplace-based assessment as an educational tool: AMEE Guide No. 31. Medical Teacher. 2007;29(9):855-71.
Norcini JJ, McKinley DW. Assessment methods in medical education. Teaching and Teacher Education. 2007;23(3):239-250.
Ottestad E, Boulet JR, Lighthall GK. Evaluating the management of septic shock using patient simulation. Critical Care Medicine. 2007;35(3):769-775.
van Zanten M, Boulet JR, McKinley DW. Using standardized patients to assess the interpersonal skills of physicians: Six years’ experience with a high-stakes certification examination. Health Communication. 2007;22(3):195-205.
van Zanten M, Boulet JR, McKinley DW, de Champlain A, Jobe AC. Assessing the communication and interpersonal skills of graduates of international medical schools as part of the USMLE Step 2 Clinical Skills (CS) Exam. Academic Medicine. 2007;82(10):S65-S68.
Vargas AL, Boulet JR, Errichetti A, van Zanten M, López MJ, Reta AM. Developing performance-based medical school assessment programs in resource-limited environments. Medical Teacher. 2007;29(2&3):192-198.
Booklets and Book Chapters
Norcini JJ. Workplace-Based Assessment in Clinical Training. Understanding medical education. Edinburgh: ASME; 2007.
2006
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Archer J, Norcini J, Southgate L, Heard S, Davies H. mini-PAT (Peer Assessment Tool): A Valid Component of a National Assessment Programme in the UK? Advances in Health Sciences Education. Epub 2006 Oct 12.
Boulet JR, Norcini JJ, Whelan GP, Hallock JA, Seeling SS. The international medical graduate pipeline: Recent trends in certification and residency training. Health Affairs. 2006;25(2):469-477.
Boulet JR, Swanson DB, Cooper RA, Norcini JJ, McKinley DW. A comparison of the characteristics and examination performances of U.S. and non-U.S. citizen international medical graduates who sought Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates certification: 1995–2004. Academic Medicine. 2006;81(10):S116-S119.
Boulet JR, van Zanten M, De Champlain A, Hawkins RE, Peitzman SJ. Checklist content on a standardized patient assessment: An ex post facto review. Advances in Health Sciences Education. Epub 2006 Jul 27.
Burdick WP, Morahan PS, Norcini JJ. Slowing the brain drain: FAIMER educational programs. Medical Teacher. 2006;28(7):631-634.
Cueto J, Burch VC, Mohd Adnan NA, Afolabi BB, Ismail Z, Jafri W, Olapade-Olaopa EO, Otieno-Nyunya B, Supe A, Togoo A, Vargas AL, Wasserman E, Morahan PS, Burdick W, Gary N. Accreditation of undergraduate medical training programs: Practices in nine developing countries as compared with the United States. Education for Health. 2006;19(2):207-222.
De Champlain A, Sample L, Dillon GF, Boulet JR. Modeling longitudinal performances on the United States Medical Licensing Examination and the impact of sociodemographic covariates: An application of survival data analysis. Academic Medicine. 2006;81(10):S108-S111.
De Champlain A, Swygert K, Swanson DB, Boulet JR. Assessing the underlying structure of the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 2 test of clinical skills using confirmatory factor analysis. Academic Medicine. 2006;81(10):S17-S20.
Errichetti A, Boulet JR. Comparing traditional and computer-based training methods for standardized patients. Academic Medicine. 2006;81(10):S91-S94.
Gimpel JR, Boulet JR, Weidner AC. Survey on the clinical skills of osteopathic medical students. Journal of the American Osteopathic Association. 2006;106(5):296-301.
Harik P, Clauser BE, Grabovsky I, Margolis MJ, Dillon GF, Boulet JR. Relationships among subcomponents of the USMLE Step 2 Clinical Skills Examination, the Step 1, and the Step 2 Clinical Knowledge Examinations. Academic Medicine. 2006;81(10):S21-S24.
McKinley DW, Boulet JR, Swanson DB, Swygert K, Scott C. Effects of case characteristics on encounter time in a high-stakes standardized patient examination. Academic Medicine. 2006;81(10):S61-S64.
Norcini J, Anderson MB, McKinley DW. The medical education of United States citizens who train abroad. Surgery. 2006;140(3):338-346.
Norcini JJ, McKinley DW, Boulet JR, Anderson MB. Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates certification and specialty board certification among graduates of the Caribbean medical schools. Academic Medicine. 2006;81(10):S112-S115.
Stern DT, Friedman Ben-David M, Norcini J, Wojtczak A, Schwarz MR. Setting school-level outcome standards. Medical Education. 2006;40(2):166–172.
Supe A, Burdick WP. Challenges and issues in medical education in India. Academic Medicine. 2006;81(12):1076-1080.
Book Chapters
Wainer H, Brown LM, Bradlow ET, Wang X, Skorupski WP, Boulet J, Mislevy RJ. An application of Testlet Response Theory in the scoring of a complex certification exam. In: Williamson DM, Mislevy RJ, Bejar II, editors. Automated scoring of complex tasks in computer-based testing. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; 2006. Chapter 6.
Norcini J. Faculty observations of student professional behavior. In: Stern D, editor. Measuring Medical Professionalism. New York: Oxford University Press; 2006. p. 147-158.
2005
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Archer JC, Norcini J, Davies HA. Use of SPRAT for peer review of paediatricians in training. British Medical Journal. 2005;330(7502):1251-1253.
Boulet JR, McKinley DW. Investigating gender-related construct-irrelevant components of scores on the written assessment exercise of a high-stakes certification assessment. Advances in Health Sciences Education: Theory and Practice. 2005;10:53-63.
Hawkins RE, Swanson DB, Dillon GF, Clauser BE, King AM, Scoles PV, Whelan GP, Burdick WP, Boulet JR, Homan AG. The introduction of clinical skills assessment into the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE): A description of USMLE Step 2 Clinical Skills. Journal of Medical Licensure and Discipline. 2005;91(3):22-25.
McAvinue MB, Boulet JR, Kelly WC, Seeling SS, Opalek A. U.S. citizens who graduated from medical schools outside the United States and Canada and received certification from the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, 1983-2002. Academic Medicine. 2005;80(5):473-478.
McKinley DW, Boulet JR. Using factor analysis to evaluate checklist items. Academic Medicine. 2005;80(10):S102-S105.
McKinley DW, Boulet JR, Hambleton RK. A work-centered approach for setting passing scores on performance-based assessments. Evaluation & the Health Professions. 2005;28(3):349-369.
Murray DJ, Boulet JR, Kras JF, McAllister JD, Cox TE. A simulation-based acute skills performance assessment for anesthesia training. Anesthesia and Analgesia. 2005;101(4):1127-1134.
Norcini J, Anderson MB. What the educators are saying. British Medical Journal. 2005;330(7488):405.
Norcini J, Burdick W, Morahan P. The FAIMER Institute: Creating international networks of medical educators. Medical Teacher. 2005;27(3):214-218.
Norcini JJ. Current perspectives in assessment: The assessment of performance at work. Medical Education. 2005;39(9):880-889.
Norcini JJ. The Mini Clinical Evaluation Exercise (mini-CEX). The Clinical Teacher. 2005;(2)1:25-30.
Norcini JJ. Where next with revalidation? British Medical Journal. 2005;330(7506):1458-1459.
Norcini JJ, Boulet JR, Whelan GP, McKinley DW. Specialty board certification among U.S. citizen and non-U.S. citizen graduates of international medical schools. Academic Medicine. 2005;80(10):S42-S45.
Norcini JJ, Mazmanian PE. Physician migration, education, and health care. Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions. 2005;25(1):4-7.
van Zanten M, Boulet JR, Norcini JJ, McKinley DW. Using a standardised patient assessment to measure professional attributes. Medical Education. 2005;39(1):20-29.
Whelan GP, Boulet JR, McKinley DW, Norcini JJ, van Zanten M, Hambleton RK, Burdick WP, Peitzman SJ. Scoring standardized patient examinations: Lessons learned from the development and administration of the ECFMG Clinical Skills Assessment (CSA). Medical Teacher. 2005;27(3):200-206.
Book Chapters
Boulet JR. Generalizability theory: Basic concepts. In: Everitt BS, Howell DC, editors. Encyclopedia of Statistics in Behavioural Science. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons; 2005. p. 704-711.
Norcini JJ. Standard setting. In: Dent JA, Harden RM, editors. A Practical Guide for Medical Teachers. Edinburgh: Elsevier Churchill Livingston; 2005. p. 293-301.
2004
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Boulet JR, Gimpel JR, Dowling DJ, Finley M. Assessing the ability of medical students to perform osteopathic manipulative treatment techniques. Journal of the American Osteopathic Association. 2004;104(5):203-211.
Boulet JR, Rebbecchi TA, Denton EC, McKinley DW, Whelan GP. Assessing the written communication skills of medical school graduates. Advances in Health Sciences Education. 2004;9(1):47-60.
De Champlain AF, Schoeneberger J, Boulet JR. Assessing the impact of examinee and standardized patient ethnicity on test scores in a large-scale clinical skills examination: gathering evidence for the consequential aspect of validity. Academic Medicine. 2004;79(10):S12-S14.
Dillon GF, Boulet JR, Hawkins RE, Swanson DB. Simulations in the United States Medical Licensing Examination™ (USMLE™). Quality and Safety in Health Care. 2004:13(Suppl 1):i41-i45.
McKinley DW, Boulet JR. Detecting score drift in a high-stakes performance-based assessment. Advances in Health Sciences Education: Theory and Practice. 2004;9(1):29-38.
McKinley DW, Boulet JR. The effects of task sequence on examinee performance. Teaching and Learning in Medicine. 2004;16(1):18-22.
Murray DJ, Boulet JR, Kras JF, Woodhouse JA, Cox T, McAllister JD. Acute care skills in anesthesia practice: A simulation-based resident performance assessment. Anesthesiology. 2004;101(5):1084-1095.
Norcini JJ. Back to the future: Clinical vignettes and the measurement of physician performance. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2004;141(10):813-814.
van Zanten M, Boulet JR, McKinley DW. The influence of ethnicity on patient satisfaction in a standardized patient assessment. Academic Medicine. 2004;79(10):S15-S17.
Book Chapters
Boulet JR, Swanson DB. Psychometric challenges of using simulations for high-stakes assessment. In: Dunn WF, editor. Simulators in critical care education and beyond. Des Plaines, IL: Society of Critical Care Medicine; 2004. p. 119-130.
2003
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Boulet JR, De Champlain AF, McKinley DW. Setting defensible performance standards on OSCEs and standardized patient examinations. Medical Teacher. 2003;25(3):245-249.
Boulet JR, Gimpel JR, Errichetti AM, Meoli FG. Using National Medical Care Survey data to validate examination content on a performance-based clinical skills assessment for osteopathic physicians. Journal of the American Osteopathic Association. 2003;103(5):225-231.
Boulet JR, McKinley DW, Whelan GP, Hambleton RK. The effect of task exposure on repeat candidate scores in a high-stakes standardized patient assessment. Teaching and Learning in Medicine. 2003; 15(4):227-232.
Boulet JR, McKinley DW, Whelan GP, Hambleton RK. Quality assurance methods for performance-based assessments. Advances in Health Sciences Education. 2003;8:27-47.
Boulet JR, Murray D, Kras J, Woodhouse J, McAllister J, Ziv A. Reliability and validity of a simulation-based acute-care skills assessment for medical students and residents. Anesthesiology. 2003;99(6):1270-1280.
Gimpel JR, Boulet JR, Errichetti AM. Evaluating the clinical skills of osteopathic medical students. Journal of the American Osteopathic Association. 2003;103(6):267-279.
Hallock JA, Seeling SS, Norcini JJ. The international medical graduate pipeline. Health Affairs. 2003;22(4):94-96.
Holmboe ES, Huot S, Chung J, Norcini JJ, Hawkins RE. Construct validity of the miniClinical Evaluation Exercise (miniCEX). Academic Medicine. 2003;78(8):826-830.
Lieberman SA, Frye AW, Litwins SD, Rasmusson KA, Boulet JR. Introduction of patient video clips into computer-based testing: effects on item statistics and reliability estimates. Academic Medicine. 2003;78(10):S48-S51.
Margolis MJ, Clauser BE, Swanson DB, Boulet JR. Analysis of the relationship between score components on a standardized patient clinical skills examination. Academic Medicine. 2003;78(10):S68-S71.
Muller ES, Harik P, Margolis M, Clauser B, McKinley D, Boulet JR. An examination of the relationship between clinical skills examination performance and performance on USMLE Step 2. Academic Medicine. 2003;78(10):S27-S29.
Norcini JJ. ABC of learning and teaching in medicine: Work based assessment. British Medical Journal. 2003;326(7392):753-755.
Norcini JJ. Peer assessment of competence. Medical Education. 2003;37(6):539-543.
Norcini JJ. Setting standards on educational tests. Medical Education. 2003;37(5):464-469.
Norcini JJ, Blank LL, Duffy FD, Fortna GS. The mini-CEX: a method for assessing clinical skills. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2003;138(6):476-481.
Norcini J, Boulet J. Methodological issues in the use of standardized patients for assessment. Teaching and Learning in Medicine. 2003;15:293-297.
van Zanten M, Boulet JR, McKinley D, Whelan GP. Evaluating the spoken English proficiency of international medical graduates: detecting threats to the validity of standardised patient ratings. Medical Education. 2003;37(1):69-76.
van Zanten M, Boulet JR, McKinley DW. Correlates of performance of the ECFMG Clinical Skills Assessment: influences of candidate characteristics on performance. Academic Medicine. 2003;78(10):S72-S74.
Williams S. Introducing members: Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research. The Network: Towards Unity for Health. 2003;22(2):30.
Book Chapters
Norcini JJ. Work based assessment. In: Cantillon P, Wood D, Hutchinson L, editors. ABC of learning and teaching in medicine. London: BMJ Publishing Group; 2003.