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Revision as of 19:18, 28 August 2013

WikiDoc Board Review
The Project
The Team
Guidelines
Question List
Quality Checklist
Medical Illustrations
Question Template
High Yield!
Normal Labs
Mnemonics
Test Taking Tips
Resources

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Gonzalo A. Romero, M.D.

Overview

The goal of the Board Review Questions Project is to create a universally accessible free repository of Board Review Questions which are targeted at multiple educational levels. All questions must be original and cannot violate Wikidoc's strict policies regarding plagiarism. Liability related to copyright violations regarding board review questions rests with the person who prepared the question. Please notify WikiDoc in writing if you feel that there has been a copyright violation regarding a board review question. Board review questions are reviewed and discussed by the WikiDoc Scholars on Monday mornings at 10:30 AM Eastern time. After creating the questions, the editor must quality check his or her own work using the following WBR quality checklist. Board review questions must be approved by the WBR Editors-in-Chief prior to uploading them onto the WikiDoc site.

WBR Quality Checklist

Standard Items
1. Correct Classification
  • Board level
  • Subject/Category
  • System/sub-category
  • High yield topic (frequently tested)
2. Question Stem/Prompt
  • Logical order in clinical cases: age and gender → chief complaint (time frame) → past medical history → physical exam (vitals) → ECG → image (physical exam, biopsy, CXR, CT) → Lab results
  • Commonly asked question prompt (i.e. What is the most likely)?
  • Jump question
  • Image in stem (CXR/CT/MRI, biopsy, graph, microscopy)
  • Question length: short (1-2 lines), medium (3-4 lines), long (>4 lines)
3. Answer Choices
  • Clear distractors
  • Image for each answer choice
  • Use of current guidelines/algorithms
  • Answer choice placement
4. Overall Explanation
  • Included patient’s presentation (pertinent positives and negatives)
  • Integrated clinical knowledge with tested topic
  • High yield content
  • Educational objective (1 or 2 take-home sentences/phrases)
  • WikiDoc-Mnemonic: own & unique or from common source (FA 2014)
  • Working hyperlinks to relevant info
  • Medical thinking
5. Answer Choices Explanations
  • Correct answer: summarized relevant info
  • Incorrect choice ___ explanation
  • Incorrect choice ___ explanation
  • Incorrect choice ___ explanation
  • Incorrect choice ___ explanation
  • Appropriate length
  • High yield facts
  • Working hyperlinks to relevant info
6. Promoting WikiDoc Use
7. English
  • Question Format
  • Grammar
  • Case story-telling
  • Punctuation
  • Word choice
  • Correct medical abbreviations from USMLE.org (i.e. for vital signs, labs, images)
8. References
9. Creativity
10. Include into the WBR Question List
  • Included question into list of questions WBR
  • Correct classification for board level
  • Working hyperlinks to WBR0____
  • Correct classification for subject/Category
  • Correct classification for system/sub-category
  • Correct classification for High-Yield
  • Correct classification for keywords
  • Correct classification for author

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