Create Valid and Reliable Assessments for Certification

Take your assessments to a new level with help from ABMS^®Assessment Services. Our assessment experts have worked with health care entities worldwide to build and maintain successful programs for medical specialty certification and professional development.

ABMS Assessment Services’ philosophy emphasizes validity, defensibility, and reliability. We follow industry best practices to help you develop, manage, and grow your program.

You choose the level of engagement with our services. We can provide everything from a fully outsourced service to supplemental services that help your team with psychometric analysis or content development.

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ABMS Assessment Services can help you build and maintain a successful assessment program for:

Evaluating an individual’s knowledge, skills, and abilities to enter the profession
Determining a candidate’s qualification to receive professional certification
Supporting a professional’s continuing education by helping them identify gaps in their knowledge and connect to relevant educational materials
Measuring the effectiveness of a professional’s learning activities for maintaining certification.

We offer these services to meet your program needs:

EXAM DESIGN

Creating blueprints and specifications, classification schemes, multiple choice item banks and examination forms as well as organization of the item writing and review process.

ITEM DEVELOPMENT

Preparing questions; recognizing, correcting, and avoiding commonly occurring technical flaws in phrasing; and selecting item topics suitable for certification examinations.

STANDARD SETTING

Facilitating the process to set pass/fail standards from the perspectives of educators, program directors, regulators and candidates.

SCORE REPORTS

Providing guidance on designing score reports that supply information about candidates’ strengths and weaknesses.

ITEM AND TEST STATISTICS

Interpreting item and test statistics; understanding generalizability theory and associated test statistics used as indicators of the reproducibility (reliability, precision) of scores on multiple-choice examinations; using p-values, biserial correlations, Horst statistics, and high/low group breakdowns; and incorporating principles of key validation.

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“The quality of the two-and-a-half-day workshop given by ABMS to the Ethiopian Obstetrics and Gynecology Test Development team was impressive and provided an excellent foundation for their future certifying process. Nice to see the Ethiopian content experts working directly with the ABMS experts to write, review, and approve MCQs resulting in a pool of well-written items ready for pilot testing.”

Leadership Team ESOG/ACOG Collaboration on Professional Association Strengthening

“The comprehensive two-day workshop approach used by ABMS was extremely helpful for our faculty in understanding concepts of assessment as well as how to write and review MCQs. We will definitely have them back for additional sessions in the future.”

Thurayya Arayssi, MD Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar

“Our collaboration with ABMS and its Member Boards builds upon Singapore’s continuing efforts to enhance specialist training. This certification process complements our structured formative training and allows us to better assess the competencies of our residents, both during and after completion of training.”

Mable Yap, MD Singapore Ministry of Health Director of Education and Assessment