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INSIGHTS RESOURCES

Help your students get the most out of their INSIGHTSSM dashboard

Demo Now Available

 

With INSIGHTS, examinees can view their NBME® Self-Assessment, Subject Exam, and Customized Assessment Services (CAS) results in one place. 

This student dashboard tracks progress across multiple assessments, flags content areas where further study is needed, and provides enhanced question review options for a more comprehensive picture of their progress. 

To learn more about INSIGHTS, try the interactive demo, watch the INSIGHTS overview video, download the user guide, and view answers to common questions below.  

You can also learn how members of the Medical Education Learning Specialists (MELS) group are using INSIGHTS to address the needs of their learners by viewing the Using NBME INSIGHTS to Support Student Success webinar.

 

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INSIGHTS Demo

This interactive demo contains sample data that displays the full set of features available in INSIGHTS throughout an examinee’s medical school journey. This demo and data are for instructional purposes only. Real examinee results, score reports, and testing timeframes may vary.

INSIGHTS Overview

This video tutorial provides an overview of the INSIGHTS interface and covers key features found on each tab within the dashboard.

The INSIGHTS User Guide can also provide a better understanding of how feedback is presented to examinees. This guide is available in INSIGHTS and through the MyNBME® Examinee Portal.

Common Questions

Only examinees have access to their INSIGHTS experience. 

Yes, examinees may do so by sharing their screen with another individual in person or through a web-conference tool. Examinees may also export certain tables within INSIGHTS to share these results. 

The INSIGHTS experience is unique to every user. NBME is also dedicated to improving this experience over time. Therefore, examinees’ views and features may be different from the ones covered in the user guide or overview video.

Results are often posted to medical schools in the MyNBME® Services Portal the calendar day after a testing window ends or the following day. However, for some assessments, posting may take up to three business days after the conclusion of an administration for exams administered at a medical school or up to three business days after the conclusion of a testing window for exams administered at a Prometric test center. Schools should begin checking for available test results in the MyNBME Services Portal 24 hours following the end of a testing window.  

Examinees will begin receiving notifications that their results are available in INSIGHTS three calendar days after scores are posted for their school. Therefore, examinees may receive their score report notifications from INSIGHTS as soon as four calendar days following the end of a test administration window.  

For example, if a test administration window ends on Friday, results may be available to schools on Saturday and available to examinees via INSIGHTS on Tuesday. 

Results from all Self-Assessments started and completed since January 1, 2023, Subject Exams and Comprehensive Exams completed since February 2, 2024, and CAS exams completed since May 1, 2024 are viewable in INSIGHTS, with the exception of the International Foundations of Medicine® (IFOM®) Clinical Science Self-Assessment.  

Only NBME Self-Assessments purchased under the same account and CAS/Subject Exams listed under the same email address appear on INSIGHTS for that account. 

Some examinees may also see Subject Exams dating back to November 1, 2023, depending on when their institution began entering examinee emails as part of the Subject Exam ordering process. 

INSIGHTS is intended to provide examinees with additional ways to review their exam scores and to help examinees gauge their readiness for the USMLE, a Clinical Science Subject Exam, or a CAS Proctored Exam. It presents results in ways that are more dynamic than the PDF score reports.

Not all NBME assessments provide the same level of detail due to differences in their purpose and number of questions.

INSIGHTS Demo

INSIGHTS Demo provides an environment to experience all that INSIGHTS has to offer, without the need to take an NBME assessment or view live score results.

A selection of NBME Self-Assessments, Subject Exams, and Customized Assessment Services (CAS) exams are included. These assessments from across the NBME portfolio were selected as a sample of what might appear for students at various stages of their educational journey. 

To show meaningful changes in performance over time, multiple exams of the same type were included demonstrating the breadth and depth of these comparisons.

Displaying 25 items per exam is sufficient to show the features and functions of INSIGHTS without unnecessary amounts of artificial data.