Institute for Medical and Pharmaceutical Exam Questions
The Institute for Medical and Pharmaceutical Examination Questions ( IMPP ) is a central institution of the German federal states with headquarters in Mainz . The institute was founded in 1972 as the "Institute for Medical Examination Questions" (IMP) and has the legal form of an institution with legal capacity under public law . Jana Jünger has been the director since March 2016. Her predecessor was Jürgen Neuser since 2001 and Birgitta Kütting since 2013.
tasks
The intention behind the establishment of the IMPP was to objectify the examination practice in the oral state exams, which until then had often been perceived as unfair. Its task is to prepare and evaluate the written parts of the state exams for the courses of study in medicine and pharmacy . For this purpose, it also creates the so-called subject catalogs, which structure and describe the scope of material to be learned by the students for the examination. According to the licensing regulations for doctors (ÄAppO) and pharmacists (AAppO), the written examinations in medicine and pharmacy must consist of multiple choice questions . With the passing of the Psychotherapists Act in 1999, the IMPP is also responsible for examinations for psychological psychotherapists and child and adolescent psychotherapists .
In fulfilling its tasks, the IMPP is supported by a large number of university professors whom it appoints as experts at the suggestion of scientific specialist societies or medical faculties. The experts submit draft questions which are converted into examination questions by the IMPP staff.
Due to the new version of the licensing regulations for doctors and the elimination of the (old) first section of the medical examination , the IMPP has lost part of its legally regulated tasks. At the same time, however, he was given the opportunity to cooperate with the training centers in holding the newly introduced university performance certificates.
The IMPP evaluates all test results statistically. In addition to new tasks, new exams also contain a small proportion of questions that have already been used and have proven to be suitable. On the basis of a sliding rule of passing the pass thresholds are determined based on the performance of the respective examination cohort, so that the failure rates in the written exams vary only within narrow limits.
The IMPP has the option of retrospectively removing individual tasks that have proven to be faulty from the evaluation, whereby a so-called disadvantage compensation is taken into account. Tasks are removed from the evaluation from a content perspective and is not based on the statistical parameters of the completed tasks.
criticism
As early as 1980, the measurement method of the IMPP came under fire.
In 2007, critics accused the IMPP and its expert commissions of having exhausted the meaningful examination material for various parts of the state examinations and of drafting questions that no longer corresponded to the training objective.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Development of the IMPP , accessed on February 24, 2019.
- ↑ Kuni, H. and Becker, P. (1980): Multiple Choice als Numerus clausus . In: The doctor in the hospital , ten-part series, 1980: 194–200, 292–295, 345–358, 406–409, 475–478, 522–526, 590–595, 665–670, 758–766 (1981) 100-104.
- ↑ Hibbeler, Birgit: Medical studies: "Hammerexamen" in the criticism. Dtsch Arztebl 2007; 104 (7): A-390 / B-346 / C-334.