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The NBOME collaborates with specialty colleges and academies, certification/recertification boards, and licensure assessment organizations to provide highly customized assessment services in osteopathic medicine and related health care professions that enhance assessment and improve patient care.
Partner with the NBOME for Your Assessment Needs
The NBOME’s expertise in developing COMLEX-USA, COMAT, and our other core examinations enables us to create customized assessment services for partner organizations and clients. We offer an ever-expanding range of services and resources for assessing competency in osteopathic medicine and related health care professions across the medical continuum, from medical school and residency to certification/recertification and continuing professional development.
The NBOME always strives to adhere to the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing.
Services
Exam administration
Exam design
Exam development, delivery, and results
Test blueprinting
Item development
Medical editing
Item-writer training
Rater training
Standardized patient training
Score reporting
Collaborative research support
How can we help you?
Building on this foundation, we provide testing services and support such as exam development, production, and administration, psychometric analyses, and scoring.
Content Development
- Item and rationale development and editing, test development, and other support for customized exams
- Computerized item-banking (question repository services)
- Item- and rationale-writing review meetings, workshops, and seminars
- Performance assessment
- Ongoing learning and continuing medical education online resources
Exam Production & Administration
- Exam production in a variety of formats, including computer-generated
- Interfacing and coordination with suppliers to deliver computer-based examinations in a secure testing environment, via the web, and at our testing partner locations nationwide
- Examinee verification
- Online test registration and credentialing
- Exam-day delivery services for in-service examinations, including registration, proctor-training, and test-day support
- In-service examination delivery services, including registration, proctor training, and test-day support
Psychometric & Scoring Services
- Classical item analysis and scoring
- Reporting on individual and cohort performance
- Item response theory (IRT) item and test form analyses, calibration, scaling, and equating
- Standard-setting studies and consultation
CATALYST is the NBOME’s assessment for learning platform and evaluates learners’ readiness for high stakes examinations by presenting immediate feedback, learning resources to help physicians and health care professionals learn and retain practice-relevant knowledge, and user-focused remediation.
Unlike assessments that offer a single view into a learner’s performance, assessments on the CATALYST platform are designed to measure progress over time, making them ideal vehicles for lifelong learning, continuous professional development, and recertification.
Clinical skills assessments of students and practicing physicians are a vital component of many health care examinations. These certification, recertification, and licensure assessments require highly sophisticated performance evaluations that simulate live encounters between health care professionals and patients, complementing and augmenting traditional summative assessments of medical knowledge.
Our experience with administering the COMLEX-USA Level 2-Performance Evaluation to tens of thousands of osteopathic medical students between 2004 and 2020 provides a solid foundation that supports partners with planning, launching, and maintaining a robust clinical skills assessment program customized to their needs.
Since 2020, the NBOME has administered virtual oral examinations for multiple client organizations.
The NBOME Learning Center offers on-demand online learning activities, as well as live webinars and events for osteopathic physicians and other health care professionals to earn Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits and meet American Osteopathic Association (AOA) Bureau of Osteopathic Specialists (BOS) Osteopathic Continuous Certification (OCC) requirements. Learning Center programs can be accessed anytime, anywhere.
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Whether you are looking for test development services, to use the CATALYST platform to deliver your examinations, assistance in delivering virtual oral examinations, or continuous learning resources, reach out to us today. Let us put our expertise to work for your organization.