KCOM faculty are certified ‘Item Writers’

Neal Chamberlain, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology & immunology, and Neil J. Sargentini, Ph.D., chair and associate professor of microbiology & immunology at KCOM, recently received the title “Certified Item-Writer” for Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensure Examination of the United States (COMLEX-USA) examinations.

Drs. Chamberlain and Sargentini successfully completed the item-writing training course overseen by the National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners (NBOME), which is a not-for-profit corporation that serves public and state licensing agencies by administering examinations testing the medical knowledge of those who seek to serve the public as osteopathic physicians.

The COMLEX-USA examination sequence is currently accepted for licensure in 50 states, and is used as an accreditation requirement for all schools and colleges of osteopathic medicine by the Commission on Accreditation of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine of the American Osteopathic Association.