Web Tool Aims to Help Medical Trainees Gear Up for Board Exams

The American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) this week launched Question Bank, an online study aid designed to help medical students prepare for their US and UK clinical board exams.

The Question Bank, which is available from desktops as well as mobile devices, includes more than 1,000 questions, contributed by "experts in the field and scientific associations as well as private databases on such varied material as transfusion medicine, chemistry, coagulation, toxicology, hematology, immunology, hematopathology, microbiology, blood bank, bacteriology, mycology, and parasitology," according to a statement from AACC. Members of the College of American Pathologists, the American Society for Clinical Pathology, and the Association for Clinical Biochemistry also submitted questions for the study tool. The organization plans to add new questions each quarter.

All Question Bank courses are made up of 10 questions. Each course includes three levels of difficulty. The system calculates the user's score at the end of each course. Students achieving a score of 80 percent or higher receive a certificate, which can also be forwarded to his or her mentor.

The Web tool is available to all members of AACC's Clinical ChemistryTrainee Council at no charge. For additional information about the Question Bank, visit www.aacc.org.

About the Author

Kanoe Namahoe is online editor for 1105 Media's Education Group. She can be reached at [email protected].

Featured

  • student reading a book with a brain, a protective hand, a computer monitor showing education icons, gears, and leaves

    4 Steps to Responsible AI Implementation

    Researchers at the University of Kansas Center for Innovation, Design & Digital Learning (CIDDL) have published a new framework for the responsible implementation of artificial intelligence at all levels of education.

  • glowing digital brain interacts with an open book, with stacks of books beside it

    Federal Court Rules AI Training with Copyrighted Books Fair Use

    A federal judge ruled this week that artificial intelligence company Anthropic did not violate copyright law when it used copyrighted books to train its Claude chatbot without author consent, but ordered the company to face trial on allegations it used pirated versions of the books.

  • server racks, a human head with a microchip, data pipes, cloud storage, and analytical symbols

    OpenAI, Oracle Expand AI Infrastructure Partnership

    OpenAI and Oracle have announced they will develop an additional 4.5 gigawatts of data center capacity, expanding their artificial intelligence infrastructure partnership as part of the Stargate Project, a joint venture among OpenAI, Oracle, and Japan's SoftBank Group that aims to deploy 10 gigawatts of computing capacity over four years.

  • laptop displaying a phishing email icon inside a browser window on the screen

    Phishing Campaign Targets ED Grant Portal

    Threat researchers at cybersecurity company BforeAI have identified a phishing campaign spoofing the U.S. Department of Education's G5 grant management portal.