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<p class="photoTitle">Dr. Edithe J. Levit</p>
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<p>Dr. Edithe J. Levit became the first woman president and CEO of a national medical association when she took over the leadership
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of the National Board of Medical Examiners.
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The Board was founded in 1915 to create national standards for medical licensing and education. Dr. Levit was responsible for
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making sure that the board kept up with changing times and the most useful innovations that could help measure students’ abilities.
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She was hired in the 1960s as one of the board’s first full-time medical professionals. Over the decades, she instituted creative
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innovations that have revolutionized the way medical students are evaluated.
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Among her many innovations were PMPs... or “Patient Management Problems.” They were designed to test how well medical students
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make decisions while examining and taking the history of a patient. PMPs became a highly effective way to test all students on
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the same skills, and hold them to the same standards.
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Dr. Levit later introduced computer-based testing, audiovisual tools such as films of meetings with patients, and the first
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self-assessment test of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Levit was successful in ushering in such sweeping changes
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by consistently proving their efficacy, and eloquently justifying a new approach.
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Within the first ten years, she rose through the ranks and in 1977, became President and CEO of the National Board of Medical Examiners.
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In 1986, Dr. Levit received the first ever Honorary Resolution from the American Medical Association’s Resident Physician Section
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for her commitment to the highest standards in medical education. She also was honored with a Special Recognition Award from the
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Association of American Medical Colleges.
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As Dr. Levit recalls, “I spent the last 25 years of my career with the National Board of Medical Examiners... those years were
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the most stimulating, creative, and rewarding time of my professional life.”</p>
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