A Brief Didactic Intervention to Improve Multiple-Choice Item-Writing Quality

• Main Authors: Jonathan S Jones (Author), Andrew W Phillips (Author), Andrew M King (Author), Molly K Estes (Author), Lauren W Conlon (Author), Kevin R Scott (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California, 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Audience: Emergency Medicine Residents, Faculty Introduction: High stakes examinations encountered throughout medical education are often composed of single best answer multiple-choice questions (MCQs). Many guidelines for writing MCQs exist, but often item writers receive little to no formal traini...