Saturday, June 22, 2013

From Diane Davey: Recalled Items and the American Board of Pathology Certification Examinations: What Constitutes Cheating?

http://www.archivesofpathology.org/doi/pdf/10.5858/arpa.2012-0734-ED


Recalled Items and the American Board of Pathology Certification Examinations: What Constitutes Cheating?

Diane Davis Davey MD
From the College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, and the VA Medical Center, Orlando, Florida.




Gary Becker, MD, executive director of the ABR, was interviewed for this story. ‘‘Questions and answers have been memorized, sometimes verbatim, and contributed to extensive archives of old ABR test material that become the prize possessions of many residency programs,’’ Becker said in the video, which appears on the board’s Web site. ‘‘Accumulating and studying from lists of questions on prior examinations constitutes unauthorized access, is inappropriate, unnecessary, intolerable and illegal.’’

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