METRO taxonomy – progress report on assessment

Abstract

The Medical Education Taxonomy Research Organization (METRO) was formed to map and create terms to comprehensively describe the processes, procedures and concepts of medical education. The terms will be used in a variety of purposes, such as describing content for retrieval from e-learning environments, indexing literature in databases, and extracting and exchanging data for research, such as for BEME systematic reviews. METRO has now completed an extensive set of descriptors for assessment, which are freely available at http://metro2.blogspot.com. The organization welcomes the response and participation of all medical education professionals.