The session will review current challenges faced by licensure assessment programs, various strategies being planned, and challenges for program directors without numeric scores. This will include an overview of COMLEX-USA Level 1 examinations reporting Pass/Fail instead of three-digit numeric scores effective May 1, 2022, and how to interpret COMLEX-USA results in the context of those changes. The decision to go to Pass/Fail was made after several years of analysis and considering input from across the education, training, and licensure continuum. The session will also summarize the work of the NBOME Special Commission on Osteopathic Medical Licensure in response to the indefinite suspension of COMLEX-USA Level 2- PE and the discontinuation of other high stakes clinical skills assessments (USMLE Step 2 CS and MCC QE II). The Special Commission is providing guidance on how to address the gap created by this decision. Without an in-person performance evaluation, the Commission is deliberating multiple strategies, starting with the collection of activities used in clinical skills education/assessment programs at osteopathic medical schools.

Learning Objectives

• Review scoring and understand scoring changes to COMLEX-USA multiple choice examinations.
• Describe the opportunities and consequences associated with recent changes in high stakes assessment of fundamental osteopathic clinical skills, including the NBOME Special Commission on Osteopathic Medical Licensure Assessment.
• Facilitate discussion with residency faculty about residency application review strategies in the wake of these changes.

Presenter
John R. Gimpel, DO, MEd, FACOFP, FAAFP

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Accreditation and Credit Statements
The American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians.

ACOFP designates this program for a maximum number of 0.75 AOA Category 1-A credits and will report CME with the extent of the physician’s participation in this activity.

Disclaimer
This program is sponsored by ACOFP for educational purposes only. The material presented is not intended to represent the sole or best medical interventions for the discussed diagnoses, but rather is intended to present the opinions of the authors or presenters that may be helpful to other practitioners. Attendees participating in this medical education program do so with the full knowledge that they waive any claim they may have against ACOFP for reliance on any information presented during these educational activities.

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