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Background and Aim: Board
certification in any specialty is associated with a better professional
reputation as well as some other advantagessuch as the opportunity of working
as an academician. Accuracy of any test in the assessment of its participant
performance is of paramount importance. One of the main factors regarding
test accuracy is its validity.The aim of this study was to investigate the
views of the Iranian Board of Dermatology Examination Committee (IBDEC)
Members onimproving its validity.
Methods: This study was a
cross sectional survey. In order to extract the items for development of the
instrument for the survey, unstructured individual interviews were conducted
with two members of the IBDEC, two faculty members who were not members of
the IBDEC, and two resident dermatologists. Afterperforming a content
analysis, writing the items, and making revisions in accordance with the
expert panel suggestions, the face and content validities of the developed
instrument were confirmed by the panel. The instrument was distributed among
the members of the IBDEC in September 2013. The collected data were entered
into a data set.
Results: Fifteen of 16
present members of the IBDEC answered and returned the instrument to the
distributer. Ten (%66.7) of participants were male. Mean (standard deviation
[SD]) of age and membership duration in IBDEC of the participants were 56.1
(7.8) and 9.6 (6.2) years, respectively. The most difficult and easiest items
for being agreed upon were: "Inclusion of key feature problems (KFP) in
the written examination may result in better assessment of the residents'
clinical decision making" and: "In the board examination, attitudes
of the residents towards ethical issues are assessed properly".Cronbach's
α was calculated for assessment of the internal consistency of the instrument
and was equaled to 0.76.
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