

The final CAT reflects material across all curriculum blocks. Tests become progressively longer throughout the Foundations of Medicine and Health. These exams are designed, utilizing test question resources available through the NBME. At the end of each block, students complete a secure formative MCQ achievement test, based on content covered in the current teaching block as well as on content from each previous block. NBME Practice Test-Cumulative Achievement Tests (CAT). They then compare their answers to an ideal answer template as well as get feedback on their reasoning ability from their IQ group facilitator.

Throughout a teaching block, students complete SEQs at the end of each week. Weekly, formative, open book concept reasoning exercises in which students are given a brief written clinical scenario and asked to explain a clinical phenomenon and its basic science underpinnings. Weekly Essay Questions: Synthesis Essay Questions (SEQs).
