Academic Citizenship Excellence (ACE) Program

Program Description

Faculty Development Sessions to Earn ACE points (Access the material with your JCESOM log-in information)

• International Association of Medical Educators (IAMSE) Archived Webinars
• Learning with Lynda
• Faculty Development Podcasts
• NBME's Writing Multiple Choice Questions: An Introductory Tutorial
  • Self-paced interactive tutorial that provides a foundation for writing quality multiple-choice questions. This tutorial is designed to introduce some of the main principles of item writing to individuals who write questions for examinations in the field of medicine and across the range of health professions.
  • Featured topics include:
    • the anatomy of an item
    • basic rules for writing good stems and options
    • characteristics of a quality "best-answer" item
    • writing items to assess clinical reasoning
    • common item flaws
    • strategies for evaluating test items
  • The tutorial is organized into sections so that you can complete only a portion of it and easily return later; the entire tutorial takes about 45 minutes to complete.
• Implicit Association Test (Each IAT worth 5 ACE Points)
  • The Implicit Association Test (IAT; Greenwald, McGhee & Schwartz,1998) has become a very popular method to use for measuring the strengths of associations between concepts, in an indirect way. Normally the IAT is used to measure the strength of associations between an attitude object and its valence. IATs measure the relative ease with which people are able to make associations between certain groups of people (e.g., older adults) and the concepts of "good" and "bad."
  • Ease of association, measured by judgment speed, is taken as evidence for an implicitly-held attitude toward that social group. It is a useful tool for measuring a variety of attitudes including gender, race, and political constructs (Nosek, Greenwald, & Banaji, 2005).  Over 200 scientific studies have been published using the IAT and more than 4.5 million have taken the IAT on-line.  The IAT has demonstrated to be both reliable and valid at detecting an individual’s level of implicit bias.

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