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Abstract
Assessment of medical students is a complex process which necessitates the need for multiple test tools e.g. written test for knowledge and clinical and practical exams for skills and behavior. There is a strong need to ensure that the assessment tools are reliable, valid, properly conducted, feasible and acceptable by candidates and assessors.Summary The study was a cross-section, questionnaire based, intervention study.It aimed at evaluation and improvement of the assessment tools used for assessment of the F.M. postgraduate candidates at the F.M. department of the faculty of medicine, Menoufiya University.Self administered questionnaires have been used to collect data from F.M. post-graduate candidates (candidates’ questionnaire) and assessors (assessors’ questionnaire). 120 candidates participated in the pre-intervention, representing 93.7% (120/127) and 132 candidates participated in the post-intervention, representing 90% (132/142) and 38 assessors participated in the pre-intervention, representing 90.5% (38/42) and 36 assessors participated in the post-intervention representing 85.7% (36/42). The study was conducted during the period of 1st The Intervention consisted primarily of defining the course ILOs, blueprinting the assessment tools (written, clinical and OSPE), replacing long essays of the written test with modified short answer questions and replacing the few factual knowledge MCQs with applied knowledge single best answer MCQs and increasing the number of MCQs by more than twice. Clinical skills exam has of March 2009 to the end of May 2011.