The health professions, i.e., persons engaged in teaching, research, administration, and/or testing of students and professionals in medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy and other allied health fields, have never had a comprehensive text devoted specifically to their assessment needs. Large assessment texts aimed at the general education market contain many chapters that are of little interest to educators in the health professions and omit other topics of critical interest to them. "Assessment in Health Professions Education" is the first comprehensive text written specifically for this audience. Part I presents assessment fundamentals and their theoretical underpinnings, while part II chapters cover the specific assessment methods used in all the health professions.Although scholarly and evidence-based, the book is accessible to non-measurement specialists. Key features include: Comprehensive - this is the first text to provide broad, single-source coverage of all aspects of assessment in the health professions; Accessible Presentation - although evidence-based throughout, the writing style and tone are keyed to consumers of measurement topics and data rather than to measurement specialists; and, Organizing Theme - validity evidence is used as an organizing theme. It is presented early (chapter 2) and referred to in all subsequent chapters.