Reena Karani, MD, MHPE

Director of the Institute for Medical Education and Professor of Medicine,

Medical Education and Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

This talk will explore fairness as a foundational concept in principled assessment. We will review aspects of tests, testing and test use that relate to fairness and explore how fairness is a fundamental validity issue. We will then review evidence related to medical student assessment and consider some approaches to enhance the processes and systems of assessment in undergraduate medical education. Finally, we will explore how a national assessment organization considers fairness in its products, services, and procedures.

Provided by the University of Virginia School of Medicine and School of Nursing

Lunch will be provided for the people in attendance.

Dr. Karani is a founding Co-Director of the innovative Harvard Macy Program for Postgraduate Trainees that prepares residents and clinical fellows for leadership careers in health professions education. She is Chair of the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) Board of Directors and is the first woman of color to serve in this role in the organization’s 108-year history. At the NBME, she also serves on the USMLE Composite Committee, the NBME Finance & Audit Committee and The Step 3 Computer Case Simulation Test Material Development Committee. Dr. Karani also chairs the USMLE.

As an education scientist, Dr. Karani’s interests include clinical workplace-based learning, feedback and assessment, innovative ways to teach faculty educators to be outstanding teachers, and approaches to center equity and justice in teaching and learning. Specifically, she is interested in how medical trainees learn in the busy clinical environment, what techniques educators harness to train learners in the various clinical settings, and approaches to advance, support, coach and retain the best educators across the continuum.