The Importance of a Summative Assessment in Medical Education

Eora: I feel like sometimes in medical education, we don't feel that there is a large body of research supporting certain things that we're doing. John: Can you orient us to the various methods he's mentioning? Are these formative or summative assessments? Eora: The idea of assessment for mastery or what we call mastery learning is this idea of learning to grow and to improve versus learning to showcase your performance.