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Chan SC, Mohd Amin S, Lee TW. Implementing standard setting into the Conjoint MAFP/FRACGP Part 1 examination - Process and issues. Malays Fam Physician. 2016;11(2):2-8
Chan, S. C., Mohd Amin, S., & Lee, T. W. (2016). Implementing standard setting into the Conjoint MAFP/FRACGP Part 1 examination - Process and issues. Malaysian family physician : the official journal of the Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia, 11(2), 2-8.
Chan, S C, et al. "Implementing standard setting into the Conjoint MAFP/FRACGP Part 1 examination - Process and issues." Malaysian family physician : the official journal of the Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia vol. 11,2 (2016): 2-8.
Chan SC, Mohd Amin S, Lee TW. Implementing standard setting into the Conjoint MAFP/FRACGP Part 1 examination - Process and issues. Malays Fam Physician. 2016 Aug 31;11(2):2-8. eCollection 2016. PMID: 28461851; PMCID: PMC5408869.
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Malays Fam Physician. 2016 Aug 31;11(2):2-8. eCollection 2016.

Implementing standard setting into the Conjoint MAFP/FRACGP Part 1 examination - Process and issues.

Malaysian family physician : the official journal of the Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia

S C Chan, S Mohd Amin, T W Lee

Affiliations

  1. FAFPM, FRACGP, Community Based Department, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kuala Lumpur Royal College of Medicine Perak, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia. E-mail: [email protected]/[email protected].
  2. FAFPM, FRACGP, Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. E-mail: [email protected].
  3. FAFPM, FRACGP, Klinik TW Lee, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia. E-mail: [email protected].

PMID: 28461851 PMCID: PMC5408869

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The College of General Practitioners of Malaysia and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners held the first Conjoint Member of the College of General Practitioners (MCGP)/Fellow of Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (FRACGP) examination in 1982, later renamed the Conjoint MAFP/FRACGP examinations. The examination assesses competency for safe independent general practice and as family medicine specialists in Malaysia. Therefore, a defensible standard set pass mark is imperative to separate the competent from the incompetent.

OBJECTIVE: This paper discusses the process and issues encountered in implementing standard setting to the Conjoint Part 1 examination.

DISCUSSION: Critical to success in standard setting were judges' understanding of the process of the modified Angoff method, defining the borderline candidate's characteristics and the composition of judges. These were overcome by repeated hands-on training, provision of detailed guidelines and careful selection of judges. In December 2013, 16 judges successfully standard set the Part 1 Conjoint examinations, with high inter-rater reliability: Cronbach's alpha coefficient 0.926 (Applied Knowledge Test), 0.921 (Key Feature Problems).

Keywords: Conjoint MAFP/FRACGP examination; Standard setting; modified Angoff method

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