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A searchable database of medical education objectives - creating a comparable gold standard.

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MLA citation style (9th ed.)

Biala, Namita OMS-III, Brooks, Sam, and Arbor, Sage. A Searchable Database of Medical Education Objectives - Creating a Comparable Gold Standard. . 3220. mushare.marian.edu/concern/generic_works/d4695b8d-8dc1-4cd2-b350-0d6799e17b62?locale=en.

APA citation style (7th ed.)

B. N. Oms-iii, B. Sam, & A. Sage. (3220). A searchable database of medical education objectives - creating a comparable gold standard. https://mushare.marian.edu/concern/generic_works/d4695b8d-8dc1-4cd2-b350-0d6799e17b62?locale=en

Chicago citation style (CMOS 17, author-date)

Biala, Namita OMS-III, Brooks, Sam, and Arbor, Sage. A Searchable Database of Medical Education Objectives - Creating a Comparable Gold Standard. 3220. https://mushare.marian.edu/concern/generic_works/d4695b8d-8dc1-4cd2-b350-0d6799e17b62?locale=en.

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BACKGROUND: Medical school curricula strives to teach as much material as can be retained in a limited amount of time. A common gold standard resource used building curricula are medical objectives suggested by national societies. Unfortunately these objectives suffer from several functional limitations such as limited accessibility to society members, non-searchable formats (such as nested tables or pdf images), and inability to compare and search across societal objectives for redundancy or gaps. The shift towards integrated curriculums in medical school also highlights the need to access suggested content across classical discipline categories. MAIN BODY: We have codified recommendations from national societies in the United States for medical school objectives in a common tabular format and developed an open access database which can be searched across disciplines and societies. A front end website that allows for searching objectives by keyword while filtering on society or discipline was created. The objectives returned from the initial search can be subsearched by a second term. There is a large range in the format, age, breadth, quantity, and quality of objectives from different societies. Some unique disciplines have overlapping suggested content though most of the content does seem binnable by discipline. The choice of metadata for objectives from each given society was also very inconsistent. CONCLUSION: A free and searchable database of medical content to deliver during medical school has been developed with over 13,000 objectives from 18 societies and 22 disciplines at http://data.medobjectives.marian.edu/ . The normalization of the different disciplines' objectives into a common database allows a platform to standardize objectives moving forward. Future work could include adding user accounts to access the database, submission of new objectives, voting up and down suggested objectives, and adding answers mapped to objectives. Keyword tagging could allow import of content (e.g. PowerPoints) and outputting of suggested objectives, which would also allow comparison of curriculum across medical schools.

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