title: Performance on the internal medicine second-year residency in-training examination predicts the outcome of the ABIM certifying examination.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA 19141.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Waxman
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Braunstein
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dantzker
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Goldberg
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lefrak
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lichstein
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ratzan
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Schiffman
mesh_terms: 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