Practice makes perfect: the development of a medical student-led crowdsourced question bank for self-study in undergraduate medical education.

Canadian medical education journal Pub Date : 2024-08-30 eCollection Date: 2024-08-01 DOI:10.36834/cmej.78869
Mario Corrado, Carlyn McNeely, Isabelle Lefebvre, Rikesh Raichura, Bryce Jm Bogie, Timothy J Wood
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The development of multiple-choice questions (MCQs) for undergraduate medical education study purposes is resource intensive. Commercially available question banks are typically expensive, only available in English, and may not be aligned with medical school learning objectives. Here, we introduce The Ottawa Question Bank: a student-led, bilingual study resource curated to a Canadian undergraduate medicine curriculum (www.theottawaquestionbank.ca). In total, 205 medical students wrote and edited 4438 original MCQs linked to objectives from the University of Ottawa undergraduate medical education curriculum. The project has received positive feedback from both developers and users. Our experience suggests that involving medical students in MCQ development is feasible and can result in the rapid creation of a low-cost, high-quality study resource curated to a program's learning objectives. The platform outlined here can be used as a model for other medical schools and professional degree programs to develop their own question banks, including pharmacy, dentistry, nursing, and physiotherapy. Interested programs are encouraged to contact our team for collaborative opportunities.

实践出真知:开发医学生主导的众包题库,用于医学本科教育中的自学。
开发用于本科医学教育学习的多项选择题(MCQs)需要耗费大量资源。市面上的题库通常价格昂贵,只有英文版,而且可能不符合医学院的学习目标。在此,我们介绍渥太华题库:这是一个由学生主导的双语学习资源,专门为加拿大本科医学课程(www.theottawaquestionbank.ca)而设计。共有 205 名医学生编写和编辑了 4438 个与渥太华大学本科医学教育课程目标相关的原创 MCQ。该项目得到了开发者和用户的积极反馈。我们的经验表明,让医科学生参与 MCQ 的开发是可行的,而且可以根据课程的学习目标快速创建低成本、高质量的学习资源。这里概述的平台可作为其他医学院和专业学位课程开发自己的题库的模型,包括药学、牙科、护理和物理治疗。我们鼓励感兴趣的项目与我们的团队联系,寻求合作机会。
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