The CCX Software package is made up of four main components (utilities) that work together to provide a mechanism for testing and evaluating your students' clinical competency. The Utilities are listed below in the order in which they will be used.
Instructors will start working with the CCX Software package by using the Criteria & Performance Utility (C&P Utility) since this is where most of the instructional and evaluation information is recorded. In the C&P Utility, instructors will create or edit a patient case and establish grading criteria for the CCX Exam.
The CCX Exam takes the students through an ordered process of documenting pertinent patient data. Students may be asked to document a list of patient problems and pertinent findings, order labs, make diagnoses, create a management plan, and answer questions regarding case content. Each student's responses will be recorded for grading using the Student Activity Record Utility (SAR).
The Student Activity Record Utility (SAR) allows the instructor to import student records from the CCX exam for evaluation. A single screen displays both overall results and category results for the individual students and for a group. The SAR also allows you to adjust evaluation standards, match student answers with the instructor's, and adjust the credit a student receives based on the instructor's evaluation of his/her answers.
Student results from multiple CCX exams can be imported into the Multi-Case Performance Utility (MCP) for the instructor's evaluation. The MCP Utility allows the instructor to see and evaluate how a student performed over a range of cases, how the student performed over specific categories in clusters of cases, and how a group or groups of students performed over several cases.
