Tutorial

Step 1

• Let’s start at the beginning. Once a user logs in, they are brought to the site’s landing page, shown below.

• Navigating to the “Questions” tab from the left-hand menu will bring the user to the entire Ottawa Question Bank, which is organized into five units: Foundations Unit, Unit I, Unit II, Unit III, and Unit IV.

• Within each unit, there are several topics which, when their questions are totalled, equate to over 4,200 multiple-choice questions and more than 60 clinical decision-making questions. Our repository of questions will continue to grow over time.

Step 2

• As an example, let’s look at Unit I, which covers cardiology, respirology, oncology, and nephrology. Below is a snapshot of the first topics of Unit I.

Step 3

• Let’s now navigate to “02 — Heart failure” to access the quizzes available for the topic of heart failure.

• A green dot preceding a lecture title indicates that the user has attempted this quiz.

• The “Attempts” column alerts the user to how many times they have attempted that quiz (quizzes can be attempted an unlimited number of times).

• The “Best Score” column denotes the user’s highest achieved score for a given quiz.

Step 4

• Let’s attempt the “Heart Failure” quiz to get an idea of the user interface when attempting a quiz.

• Note that great care has gone into creating a user interface that is similar to what may be seen on the uOttawa online medical school exams, which is also similar to the MCCQE1 interface.

• When attempting a quiz, users will note four icons in the top-right corner: a globe, a moon, a caution symbol (an exclamation mark within a triangle), and an exit symbol (an x within a circle).

• Clicking on the globe will allow the user to toggle between English and French.

• Clicking on the moon will change the “theme” from light to dark (great for making late-night study sessions less tiresome on the eyes).

• Clicking on the caution symbol allows the user to provide feedback about the current question. A popup will appear with a textbox for the user to provide comments or explanations.

• Clicking on the exit symbol will pause the quiz attempt (which can be resumed at any time) and bring the user to the results page.

Step 5

• Below is an example of a question as it would appear to the user. Once an answer option is selected, the user is notified of the correct answer and a detailed answer key is available explaining why both the correct and incorrect answers are as such.

Step 6

• Once a quiz is complete, the user will be directed to a summary page as seen below. Users can also compare their score to the average score achieved by all other users who have attempted that particular quiz.

Step 7

• If a user were to now return to this same quiz, they would encounter the following page. Here the user can find their previous attempts, review individual attempts, and start a new attempt.

Step 8

• Now let’s navigate to the “Performance” tab on the left-hand side of the screen, as seen below. Here the user can get a large-scale overview of their progress through the Ottawa Question Bank and can also begin to learn about potential areas for improvement. In the case below, the user may want to further review radiology and infectious diseases before reattempting associated quizzes.

• New features will continue to be added as we continue to improve the Ottawa Question Bank.

• Thank you and good luck!