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Welcome to the Home Page of TEbMP -
The Test of English for Biomedical Purposes |
TEbMP
is a fair and valid assessment of a person's ability to use the English
language effectively within a biomedical context. In order to be a
valid assessment tool, TEbMP evaluates the knowledge and skills
employed in authentic situations, as determined by reliable and valid
surveys of biomedical English usage. The actual questions in the TEbMP
question bank are based on a corpus of essential words and phrases.
As
different situations, for example undergraduate education versus
clinical practice, require different knowledge and skills, the spectrum
which TEbMP evaluates must have both breadth and depth. TEbMP therefore
measures biomedical English ability within 5 domains:
1. Basic vocabulary and usage
2. Reading comprehension
3. Written composition
4. Listening comprehension
5. Speaking
These
domains are obviously inter-related and there will be a measure of
overlap in testing each of these domains. The order in which the
domains are listed above does not imply any fixed priority in teaching
or testing.
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| What is the Purpose of TEbMP? |
TEbMP
may be used to evaluate the biomedical English ability of applicants to
undergraduate and graduate educational programs in the health sciences,
biology and related fields. It may also assist licensing bodies and
organizations which wish to evaluate candidates for positions in
clinical practice, public health, education and health communications.
In order to have a spectrum of applications, the results of TEbMP
evaluations are expressed in meaningful terms which include raw scores,
ability and rankings. There is no predetermined passing mark for any
stage of TEbMP, and different institutions may determine the cut-off
scores which are appropriate to their purposes. This will be
facilitated by the publication of raw scores, ability rankings and
question-difficulty ratings for reference cohorts and exams.
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| TEbMP
is administered by a collaboration of interested faculty at universities worldwide. All activities are not-for-profit and any group or person is welcome to contribute to the effort of developing, administering or interpreting examination results. |
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