Question banks in medical education – An overview

Abstract

In the era of Artificial intelligence and e learning it is a challenging task for medical educators to guide and educate students struggling to cope with the ever-expanding horizon of new discoveries and inventions in the medical field. In this context Question banks have come in a big way to supplement teaching and assessment and are main pillars of support in medical education. This article briefly describes the process of setting questions for a bank, advantages and disadvantages of using question banks as an educational tool.