title: How to write and take objective, multiple choice examinations. Quantitative analysis of the scientific data base.
abstract: Although there are numerous ways in which physicians evaluate one another and themselves, the multiple choice examination has become the key method for evaluating the scientific data base of both medical students and postgraduate physicians. Knowledge of the mechanisms at work in such examinations is thus important for both giving and taking these examinations. Analysis of these mechanisms is now provided.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School, Newark.
authors.forename: W C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Lambert
authors.forename: M W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Lambert
mesh_terms: D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods*