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Just got this email from SEMPA yesterday, has anyone heard anything about this? To summarize from below, it looks like a way to compare residencies through standardized mid-term and final exams. An attempt to quantify the benefits of residency maybe, but don't know how valuable it will actually be? Apologize for the length, but I wanted to include the full description for those who didn't receive the email. 

"The Society of Emergency Medicine Physician Assistants (SEMPA), in conjunction with Rosh Review, is releasing a new product that gives EMPA program directors the tools and resources needed to assess trainee’s medical knowledge individually and in comparison with other emergency medicine physician assistant (EMPA) residents/fellows.

The SEMPA/Rosh Review Postgraduate Assessment Program is a product that’s the result of the Postgraduate Education Committee’s endeavors to create a measurable means of identifying and documenting the value of postgraduate EMPA program training. This subscription-based product gives EMPA postgraduate programs access to an extensive question bank from which program directors can assess their trainees’ medical knowledge base and identify areas where there may be opportunities for improvement in subject matter instruction.

As part of this assessment program, annual SEMPA/Rosh Review Mid-Program and Final Exams are available and allow programs a means of evaluating their own didactic education performance. In addition, it allows programs to see how their learners compare to those in other participating programs.

Mid-Program and Final Exam data from each program are calculated by Rosh Review and the scores are reported to each program. The score report provides an overall score and systems based category score for each learner in the program as well as for the overall class. Each participating program also receives an anonymous (other program names not specifically provided with scores) program comparison report. This report includes individual and program high, low, and median results for your program compared to other participating programs. The scores are released to the program director’s dashboard at a date to be specified in the future on an annual basis."

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Saw this a couple of days ago as well. Sounds like a great idea. During my residency we did the program assigned Rosh questions, but were not allowed to participate in the In-Training Exam that the physicians do early to track progress and deficiencies. This program sounds like it would allow EMPA residencies to improve their curriculum and produce a better graduate. 

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