Performance on the internal medicine second-year residency in-training examination predicts the outcome of the ABIM certifying examination.
For 223 residents from eight teaching hospitals, the results of the second-year in-training examination and the first-sitting certifying examination of the American Board of Internal Medicine were highly correlated. The results of the in-training examination can serve residents as an important measure of their preparedness for certification and can be useful in identifying the need for more intensive self-study strategies during the subsequent one and a half years.
Waxman
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H
Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA 19141.
Braunstein
G
G
Dantzker
D
D
Goldberg
S
S
Lefrak
S
S
Lichstein
E
E
Ratzan
K
K
Schiffman
F
F
D002568:Certification; D004521:Educational Measurement; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine / Q000193:education*; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012372:ROC Curve; D013044:Specialty Boards; D014481:United States