PMID- 21205733
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20110131
LR  - 20110105
IS  - 1930-7837 (Electronic)
IS  - 0022-0337 (Linking)
VI  - 75
IP  - 1
DP  - 2011 Jan
TI  - Association Between National Board Dental Examination Part II Scores and 
      Comprehensive Examinations at Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
PG  - 90-7
AB  - Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) uses a hybrid problem-based approach to 
      teaching in the predoctoral program. The objective structured clinical 
      examination (OSCE) is a formative examination designed to assess the performance 
      of students in the problem-based learning (PBL) curriculum. At HSDM three 
      comprehensive examinations with OSCE components are administered during the third 
      and fourth years of clinical training. The National Board Dental Examination 
      (NBDE) Part II is taken in the final year of the predoctoral program. This study 
      examines the association between the NBDE Part II and the comprehensive exams 
      held at HSDM. Predoctoral students from the HSDM classes of 2005 and 2006 were 
      included in this study. The outcome variable of interest was the scores obtained 
      by students in the NBDE Part II, and the main independent variable of interest 
      was the performance of students in the comprehensive exams (honors, pass, make-up 
      exam to pass). The Mann-Whitney U-test was used to examine the association 
      between the grades obtained in the each of the three comprehensive exams and the 
      NBDE Part II scores. Multivariable linear regression analysis was also used to 
      examine the association between the NBDE Part II scores and the comprehensive 
      exam grades. The effect of potential confounding factors including age, sex, and 
      race/ethnicity was adjusted. The results suggest that students who performed well 
      in the comprehensive exams performed better on the NBDE Part II, even after 
      adjusting for confounding factors. Future studies will examine the long-term 
      impact of PBL on postdoctoral plans and career choices.
FAU - Lee, Min Kyeong
AU  - Lee MK
AD  - Department of Developmental Biology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, 
      MA 02115, USA.
FAU - Allareddy, Veerasathpurush
AU  - Allareddy V
FAU - Howell, T Howard
AU  - Howell TH
FAU - Karimbux, Nadeem Y
AU  - Karimbux NY
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - J Dent Educ
JT  - Journal of dental education
JID - 8000150
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Boston
MH  - *Education, Dental
MH  - *Educational Measurement
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Linear Models
MH  - Male
MH  - Multivariate Analysis
MH  - *Problem-Based Learning
MH  - Retrospective Studies
MH  - *Schools, Dental
MH  - *Specialty Boards
MH  - Statistics, Nonparametric
EDAT- 2011/01/06 06:00
MHDA- 2011/02/01 06:00
CRDT- 2011/01/06 06:00
PHST- 2011/01/06 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2011/01/06 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/02/01 06:00 [medline]
AID - 75/1/90 [pii]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Dent Educ. 2011 Jan;75(1):90-7.