Young-Shin Park
Biographic Data
| ID | 120233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Young-Shin Park |
| GIVEN NAMES | Young-Shin |
| FAMILY NAME | Park |
| SIGNATURE | PARK Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois College of Medicine |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8583-4335 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Validity of constructed‐response situational judgement tests in health professions education: A systematic review and meta‐analysis
The myth that slow test‐takers are worse students: Implications for time‐limited testing
PROBLEM: Time-limited testing, a form of assessment in which participants have a fixed amount of time to complete an exam, remains a global standard across the medical education continuum from admissions through licensure and board certification. A wide-ranging literature, however, documents how speededness, the extent to which a test's time limit alters individual performance, poses a threat to both validity and equity. Specifically, some studen…
Compounded Challenges: The Impact of Race and Disability on Leave of Absence and Time to Graduation During Undergraduate Medical Education
A National Survey of Communication Skills Topics Taught in Medical School Clinical Skills Courses
Clerkship Assessment Reliability Based on Assessor Type and Assessor-Student Contact Frequency: A Generalizability Theory Analysis
Variability in Learner Performance Using the ACGME Harmonized Milestones During the First Year of Postgraduate Training
Let’s Chalk About It: Introducing the TinyTalks Curriculum, a Paradigm for Short, Virtual Chalk Talks
In busy clinical environments, educational opportunities must be designed to accommodate learner-specific needs. Many adult learners prefer short, relevant, technology-enhanced learning. As such, electronic learning (e-learning) experiences have become a prominent part of medical education. Yet, there remain challenges to e-learning experiences in the current educational landscape. To address these challenges, the authors developed the TinyTalks …
Gender Differences in Clinical Performance Assessment of Internal Medicine Residents: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Influence of Faculty and Trainee Gender
Is There a Problem With Evidence in Health Professions Education
What constitutes evidence, what value evidence has, and how the needs of knowledge producers and those who consume this knowledge might be better aligned are questions that continue to challenge the health sciences. In health professions education (HPE), debates on these questions have ebbed and flowed with little sense of resolution or progress. In this article, the authors explore whether there is a problem with evidence in HPE using thought ex…
Promoting Longitudinal and Developmental Computer-Based Assessments of Clinical Reasoning: Validity Evidence for a Clinical Reasoning Mapping Exercise
Are They Prepared? Comparing Intern Milestone Performance of Accelerated 3-Year and 4-Year Medical Graduates
The rapid growth and expansion of Master of health professions education (MHPE) programs: A mixed-methods study of international curricular trends and guidelines for programs
PURPOSE: This study explores international trends and standards of Master's degree programs through a comprehensive environmental scan and focus group interviews to understand curricular structure, content, program director expectations, educational context, and future directions. METHOD: Authors conducted a two-phase mixed-methods sequential explanatory design to conduct the environmental scan (phase 1), and subsequently conducting focus groups …
Surgical skills training for practicing surgeons founded on established educational theories and frameworks
Following completion of structured training in residency or fellowship programs, surgeons need to acquire new skills throughout their careers to address changes in their surgical practices, and to perform new procedures and use new technologies as these are developed. The opportunities available to surgeons to acquire the new skills, safely introduce these skills into surgical practice, and then maintain the skills, vary greatly and may not fully…
What are the barriers to health professionals' training on gender-affirming care from patients' and clinicians' perspectives
A Primer to Critical Race Theory
Zaidi, Zareen MD, PhD1; Wyatt, Tasha R PhD2; Naidu, Thirusha PhD3; Park, Yoon Soo PhD4 Author Information
Principles of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Health Care Distance Simulation Education: Consensus Building via the Nominal Group Technique
Guaranteed Admissions Pathway Initiatives to Medical School as a Means to Physician Workforce Diversification
Purpose: Medical schools in the United States work to diversify the physician workforce through various admissions initiatives.1 These admissions policies include pathway strategies to attract competitive candidates, including guaranteed admissions (GA) programs that guarantee admission to a university’s medical school at the time of matriculation in an undergraduate bachelor’s program. Other pathway initiatives may focus on diversity to make adm…
Identifying Meaningful Patterns of Internal Medicine Clerkship Grading Distributions: Application of Data Science Techniques Across 135 U.S. Medical Schools
Transition to Residency: National Study of Factors Contributing to Variability in Learner Milestones Ratings in Emergency Medicine and Family Medicine
Automated Patient Note Grading: Examining Scoring Reliability and Feasibility
“My Assessments Are Biased!” Measurement and Sociocultural Approaches to Achieve Fairness in Assessment in Medical Education
Assessing learners is foundational to their training and developmental growth throughout the medical education continuum. However, growing evidence shows the prevalence and impact of harmful bias in assessments in medical education, accelerating the urgency to identify solutions. Assessment bias presents a critical problem for all stages of learning and the broader educational system. Bias poses significant challenges to learners, disrupts the le…
The test developer’s dilemma: Evaluating the balance of feasibility and empiric performance of test development techniques for repeated written assessments
Purpose Written assessments face challenges when administered repeatedly, including resource-intensive item development and the potential for performance improvement secondary to item recall as opposed to understanding. This study examines the efficacy of three-item development techniques in addressing these challenges.Methods Learners at five training programs completed two 60-item repeated assessments. Items from the first test were randomized …
Evaluating Modes of Observations Using Hierarchical Signal Detection Rater Models
which can include live and videotaped observations. Although live observations have been the traditional format of measuring examinee performance in education and in healthcare, videotaped observations provide educators and testing agencies the promise of unbiased and standardized evaluations, offering practical solutions to limitations of real-time scoring. This study proposes a measurement model taking into account different modes of observatio…
Workplace-Based Entrustment Scales for the Core EPAs: A Multisite Comparison of Validity Evidence for Two Proposed Instruments Using Structured Vignettes and Trained Raters
PURPOSE: In undergraduate medical education (UME), competency-based medical education has been operationalized through the 13 Core Entrustable Professional Activities for Entering Residency (Core EPAs). Direct observation in the workplace using rigorous, valid, reliable measures is required to inform summative decisions about graduates' readiness for residency. The purpose of this study is to investigate the validity evidence of 2 proposed workpl…
Toward (More) Valid Comparison of Residency Applicants’ Grades: Cluster Analysis of Clerkship Grade Distributions Across 135 U.S. MD-granting Medical Schools
Clerkship grades are a core element of medical school assessment and are used by residency program directors to select residency applicants, despite substantial variation in grading systems and distributions across institutions. 1–4 Despite calls to abandon the practice, 5 program directors are likely to continue comparing applicants across programs using clerkship grades, especially as the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 goes …
The Challenge of Cross-Cultural Psychology: The Role of the Indigenous Psychologies
This article outlines the indigenous psychologies approach within the context of three research traditions in cross-cultural psychology: the universalist, contextualist, and integrationist approaches. The first section outlines the limitations of the universalist and contextualist approaches. The second section overviews the two integrationist approaches: the derived etics approach and the indigenous psychologies approach. In comparison to the fo…
Intergenerational Support: Psychological and Cultural Analyses of Korean and German Women
In this study, adult daughters from an East Asian culture (South Korea: N = 398) and a western culture (Germany: N = 313) were compared with respect to the extent and the direction of intergenerational support, the associations between value orientations, relationship quality and intergenerational support, and with respect to the meaning of perceived reciprocity within these processes. Results showed a more extensive exchange of support in the Ko…
Psychometric Properties of the Children’s Depression Inventory: An Item Response Theory Analysis Across Age in a Nonclinical, Longitudinal, Adolescent Sample
The purpose of this study was to investigate psychometric properties of the Children’s Depression Inventory within a nonclinical and longitudinal sample (8th and 12th grades). Using the Rasch rating scale, most items represented one dimension. There was adequate separation among items and no overlap between ranges of item difficulties with latent trait parameters
The Challenge of Cross-Cultural Psychology: The Role of the Indigenous Psychologies
This article outlines the indigenous psychologies approach within the context of three research traditions in cross-cultural psychology: the universalist, contextualist, and integrationist approaches. The first section outlines the limitations of the universalist and contextualist approaches. The second section overviews the two integrationist approaches: the derived etics approach and the indigenous psychologies approach. In comparison to the fo…
Indigenous Psychologies
Intergenerational Support: Psychological and Cultural Analyses of Korean and German Women
In this study, adult daughters from an East Asian culture (South Korea: N = 398) and a western culture (Germany: N = 313) were compared with respect to the extent and the direction of intergenerational support, the associations between value orientations, relationship quality and intergenerational support, and with respect to the meaning of perceived reciprocity within these processes. Results showed a more extensive exchange of support in the Ko…
Relationships between stage of change for stress management behavior and perceived stress and coping: Stage and perceived stress and coping
The main aim of this study was to examine the relationships between stage of change, which was guided by the transtheoretical model, for stress management behavior and perceived stress and coping. First, we developed the Korean version of the Rhode Island Stress and Coping Inventory (RISCI). Second, we related stage of change for stress management behavior to perceived stress and coping. Based on two surveys that we conducted (n = 530 for survey …
Psychometric Properties of the Children’s Depression Inventory: An Item Response Theory Analysis Across Age in a Nonclinical, Longitudinal, Adolescent Sample
The purpose of this study was to investigate psychometric properties of the Children’s Depression Inventory within a nonclinical and longitudinal sample (8th and 12th grades). Using the Rasch rating scale, most items represented one dimension. There was adequate separation among items and no overlap between ranges of item difficulties with latent trait parameters
Measuring the Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Access to a Personal Healthcare Provider: The Use of the National Survey of Children’s Health for an External Comparison Group
Stability and change in US city policymaking: Evidence and a path forward
A central issue in urban political analysis is the way in which city-governing institutions prioritize and react to changing demands for policies and services. In this article, we examine these dynamics in American city governments through the lens of two policy process frameworks: incrementalism and punctuated equilibrium. Using panel data from all 278 Michigan cities from 2005 to 2011, the empirical analysis mostly finds evidence of punctuated …
Three controversies over item disclosure in medical licensure examinations
In response to views on public's right to know, there is growing attention to item disclosure - release of items, answer keys, and performance data to the public - in medical licensure examinations and their potential impact on the test's ability to measure competence and select qualified candidates. Recent debates on this issue have sparked legislative action internationally, including South Korea, with prior discussions among North American cou…
A 5-year experience with an elective scholarly concentrations program
An elective, interdisciplinary scholarly program with a focus beyond traditional biomedical research offers students the opportunity to expand the scope of their medical education without an untoward effect on academic performance or residency placement
The Seoul Metropolitan Lifestyle Intervention Program and Metabolic Syndrome Risk: A Retrospective Database Study
Since 2011, the Seoul Metabolic Syndrome Management (SMESY) program has been employed as a community-wide, lifestyle modification intervention in Seoul, Korea. We aimed to determine if the SMESY intervention would be significantly associated with improvements in metabolic syndrome (MetS) risk factors. This retrospective database study included data from 25,449 participants aged 30-64 years between 1 January 2013 and 30 June 2013. In the SMESY pro…
Rater Model Using Signal Detection Theory for Latent Differential Rater Functioning
Differential rater functioning (DRF) occurs when raters show evidence of exercising differential severity or leniency when scoring examinees within different subgroups. Previous studies of DRF have examined rater bias using manifest variables (e.g., use of covariates) to determine the subgroups. These manifest variables include gender and the ethnicity of the examinee. For example, a rater may score males more severely. Ideally, each rater's seve…
When Less is More: The Impact of the Regulation on Standard Workweek on Labor Productivity in South Korea
This paper examines the impact of a workweek reduction policy on the labor productivity of manufacturing plants in Korea. Taking advantage of the stepwise introduction of the standard 40‐hour workweek in Korea, we apply a difference‐in‐differences framework to individual‐level cross‐sectional and plant‐level longitudinal data to examine the impact of the policy on working hours and output, respectively. We find that the policy reduced per‐worker …
Being Edgy in Health Professions Education: Concluding the Philosophy of Science Series
The philosophy of science is concerned with what science is, its conceptual framing and underlying logic, and its ability to generate meaningful and useful knowledge. To that end, concepts such as ontology (what exists and in what way), epistemology (the knowledge we use or generate), and axiology (the value of things) are important if somewhat neglected topics in health professions education scholarship. In an attempt to address this gap, Academ…
Using Learning Curves to Identify and Explain Growth Patterns of Learners in Bronchoscopy Simulation: A Mixed-Methods Study
PURPOSE: Learning curves can illustrate how trainees acquire skills and the path to competence. This study examined the growth trajectories of novice trainees while practicing on a bronchoscopy virtual reality (VR) simulator compared with those of experts. METHOD: This was a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design. Twenty pediatric subspecialty trainees and 7 faculty practiced with the VR simulator (October 2017 to March 2018) at the Hospital…
Expanding the Traditional History and Physical Examination to Address Chronic Diseases and Social Needs: A Multisite Randomized Control Trial of 4 Medical Schools
PURPOSE: This study gathers validity evidence of an expanded History and Physical examination (H&P 360) to address chronic diseases through incorporation of biopsychosocial elements that are lacking in traditional H&P assessments via a multisite randomized controlled trial among medical students. METHOD: Third- and fourth-year medical students (n = 159) at 4 schools participated in an Objective Structured Clinical Examination designed with 2 case…
Reliable Assessment of Surgical Technical Skills Is Dependent on Context: An Exploration of Different Variables Using Generalizability Theory
PURPOSE: Reliable assessment of surgical skills is vital for competency-based medical training. Several factors influence not only the reliability of judgments but also the number of observations needed for making judgments of competency that are both consistent and reproducible. The aim of this study was to explore the role of various conditions-through the analysis of data from large-scale, simulation-based assessments of surgical technical ski…
Rime Foreword: What Constitutes Science in Educational Research? Applying Rigor in Our Research Approaches
What constitutes science in educational research? This question is not as straightforward to answer given the diversity of disciplines represented in health professions education.1 As researchers, we engage in scientific study to advance our field; we are also an applied field, with goals to produce knowledge that can translate into practice and change. Our field has roots in multiple disciplines, including education, psychology, sociology, biome…
The Positivism Paradigm of Research
Research paradigms guide scientific discoveries through their assumptions and principles. Understanding paradigm-specific assumptions helps illuminate the quality of findings that support scientific studies and identify gaps in generating sound evidence. This article focuses on the research paradigm of positivism , examining its definition, history, and assumptions (ontology, epistemology, axiology, methodology, and rigor). Positivism is aligned …
Synthesizing and Reporting Milestones-Based Learner Analytics: Validity Evidence From a Longitudinal Cohort of Internal Medicine Residents
PURPOSE: Coordinating and operationalizing assessment systems that effectively streamline and measure fine-grained progression of residents at various stages of graduate medical training can be challenging. This article describes development, administration, and psychometric analyses of a learner analytics system to resolve challenges in implementation of milestones by introducing the Scoring Grid Model, operationalized in an internal medicine (I…
Validity Evidence for a Knowledge Assessment Tool for a Mastery Learning Scrub Training Curriculum
PURPOSE: To examine the validity evidence for a scrub training knowledge assessment tool to demonstrate the utility and robustness of a multimodal, entrustable professional activity (EPA)-aligned, mastery learning scrub training curriculum. METHOD: Validity evidence was collected for the knowledge assessment used in the scrub training curriculum at Stanford University School of Medicine from April 2017 to June 2018. The knowledge assessment had 2…
Promoting Value Through Patient-Centered Communication: A Multisite Validity Study of Third-Year Medical Students
PURPOSE: To examine validity evidence for a standardized patient scenario assessing medical students' ability to promote value using patient-centered communication (in response to a patient requesting an unnecessary test) and to explore the potential effect of various implementation and curricular factors on student scores. METHOD: Third-year medical students (N = 516) from 5 U.S. MD-granting medical schools completed the communication scenario b…
Validity Evidence Supporting the Comunicación y Habilidades Interpersonales (CAI) Scale for Medical Spanish Communication and Interpersonal Skills Assessment
PURPOSE: While many schools teach medical Spanish to improve communication with the growing Spanish-speaking population, a standardized assessment methodology is lacking. This study evaluates validity evidence for a newly developed Spanish Communication and Interpersonal Skills (CIS) scale. METHOD: The authors developed the Comunicación y Habilidades Interpersonales (CAI, pronounced /kī/) scale by culturally and linguistically adapting a 14-item …
A Meaningful and Actionable Professionalism Assessment: Validity Evidence for the Professionalism Mini-Evaluation Exercise (P-MEX) Across 8 Years
PURPOSE: With the growing importance of professionalism in medical education, it is imperative to develop professionalism assessments that demonstrate robust validity evidence. The Professionalism Mini-Evaluation Exercise (P-MEX) is an assessment that has demonstrated validity evidence in the authentic clinical setting. Identifying the factorial structure of professionalism assessments determines professionalism constructs that can be used to pro…
Generalizability of the Ottawa Surgical Competency Operating Room Evaluation (O-SCORE) Scale to Assess Medical Student Performance on Core EPAs in the Workplace: Findings From One Institution
PURPOSE: Assessment of the Core Entrustable Professional Activities for Entering Residency (Core EPAs) requires direct observation of learners in the workplace to support entrustment decisions. The purpose of this study was to examine the internal structure validity evidence of the Ottawa Surgical Competency Operating Room Evaluation (O-SCORE) scale when used to assess medical student performance in the Core EPAs across clinical clerkships. METHO…
Content of an Educational Handover Letter From Medical Schools to Surgery Residencies: A Mixed Method Analysis
PURPOSE: To identify the content of an educational handover letter from undergraduate to graduate education in General Surgery. METHOD: Expert consensus was attained on the content of an educational handover letter. A 3-stage Delphi technique was employed with 8 experts in each of 4 stakeholder groups: program directors in general surgery, medical student surgical acting internship or prep course directors, authors of medical student performance …
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