Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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Program evaluation remains a critical but underutilized step in medical education. This study compared traditional and retrospective pre-post self-assessment methods to objective learning measures to assess which correlated better to actual learning. ⋯ Students were able to accurately identify, but not quantify, learning using either traditional or retrospective pre-post "self-assessment" measures. Retrospective pre-post self-assessment was more accurate in excluding perceived change in understanding of subject matter that was not taught.