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Abstract
The Milwaukee School of Engineering primarily delivers tests and exams in short-answer format to their Master of Science in Perfusion [MSP] graduate students. This method has been deemed to be an effective way of learning as evidenced by the pass rate of MSOE graduates on the American Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion’s [ABCP] examinations. Students, however, are lacking materials to practice for the board examinations and are unable to adequately familiarize themselves with the multiple-choice format found on these exams. Surveys were sent out to students in 2019 and 2021 and ithas been found that there is a strong interest in having multiple-choice quizzes and practice exams created as a study tool for these exams. Previously, both Schmidt and Kress developed multiple-choice questions for anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, and all clinical extracorporeal perfusion courses in the MSP curriculum.
The goal of this project was to create multiple-choice questions for the remaining courses, including Pediatric Clinical Perfusion, Design of Experiments, and the Seminar of Medical Ethics, and to create half-length practice exams for additional student practice.
A total of 138 questions were created as part of this project, all of which were derived from the course delivery materials used in the MSOE core curriculum. The questions used for the practice exams were chosen in a randomized manner to avoid bias and repetitiveness. The complete set of questions for the MSOE MSP curriculum is available in Quizlet and are accessible to anyone within the program using the login credentials MSOEQuizlet@gmail.com as the username and Perfusion1 as the password. Students can now enrich their ABCP board preparation and deepen their understanding with these additional and convenient-to-use study tools.