Summative assessment in a doctor of pharmacy program: a critical insight

Advances in Medical Education and Practice
Kerry Wilbur

Abstract

The Canadian-accredited post-baccalaureate Doctor of Pharmacy program at Qatar University trains pharmacists to deliver advanced patient care. Emphasis on acquisition and development of the necessary knowledge, skills, and attitudes lies in the curriculum's extensive experiential component. A campus-based oral comprehensive examination (OCE) was devised to emulate a clinical viva voce and complement the extensive formative assessments conducted at experiential practice sites throughout the curriculum. We describe an evaluation of the final exit summative assessment for this graduate program. OCE results since the inception of the graduate program (3 years ago) were retrieved and recorded into a blinded database. Examination scores among each paired faculty examiner team were analyzed for inter-rater reliability and linearity of agreement using intraclass correlation and Spearman's correlation coefficient measurements, respectively. Graduate student ranking from individual examiner OCE scores was compared with that of other relative ranked student performance. Sixty-one OCEs were administered to 30 graduate students over 3 years by a composite of eleven different pairs of faculty examiners. Intraclass correlation measures demons...Continue Reading

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Oct 4, 2017·American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education·Akshaya Srikanth BhagavathulaAbdulla Shehab
Oct 6, 2020·American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education·Banan Abdulrzaq Mukhalalati, Andrea Taylor

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