Reliability across content areas in progress tests assessing medical knowledge: a Brazilian cross-sectional study with implications for medical education assessments.
Pedro Tadao Hamamoto FilhoMiriam HashimotoAlba Regina de Abreu LimaLeandro Arthur DiehlNeide Tomimura CostaPatricia Moretti RehderSamira YarakMaria Cristina de AndradeMaria de Lourdes Marmorato Botta HafnerZilda Maria Tosta RibeiroJulio César MorigutiAngélica Maria BicudoPublished in: Sao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina (2024)
Maintaining an equitable division in assessment content may lead to suboptimal results in terms of assessment reliability, especially for internal medicine. Therefore, content sampling of medical knowledge for general assessments should be reappraised.