Resources for Clients and Partners

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.