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  • Psychology
  • Assessment

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  • Assessor stringency/leniency (ASL) impacts learner assessment scores.
  • The drivers of ASL in medical education are not well understood.
  • A potential link between personality traits and ASL has been hypothesized but not proven.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the association between physician assessors' personality traits and their ASL.
  • To determine if personality influences consistent grading patterns in medical assessments.

Main Methods:

  • Prospective cohort study at an academic emergency department.
  • Physician assessors completed the IPIP-Neo 120 personality questionnaire.
  • ASL quantified using the mean delta method; linear regression analyzed correlations.

Main Results:

  • 2127 assessments from 25 physician assessors were analyzed.
  • A trend towards leniency with increased extraversion was not statistically significant (p=0.07).
  • No significant association was found between other personality traits and ASL.

Conclusions:

  • Physician personality traits are unlikely to be significant drivers of ASL in medical education.
  • Further research is needed to explore other potential contributors to ASL in this context.