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4 Little Tricks that Will Help You Score a 4th Quartile on the CASPer Exam - YouTube
Channel: BeMo Academic Consulting Inc.
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I'm giving a quick talk on CASPer today.
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So for those of you who haven't done a CASPer,
it's basically a computer based assessment
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that medical schools use to assess your professional
skills like leadership, communication, teamwork,
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ethical reasoning before they even get you
into the interview room.
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And they key here is that before they get
you into the interview room, so if you're
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not doing well on your CASPer, you're going
to be eliminated from doing your interview.
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So I'm just going to be going over kind of
our general approach to answering a CASPer
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question and then just giving you some tips
in terms of how you should be preparing and
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what you can do to prepare.
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So in terms of general approach, you'll get
a video prompt and then you'll have 5 minutes
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to type in an answer and then you'll have
3 prompts to answer.
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So the most important thing here is that you
answer the first prompt that pops out at you.
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So don't waste time trying to think up answers
for the other prompts that you're not really
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getting just think about getting at that first
answer because at least that way you'll get
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some marks if not great marks for giving a
good answer.
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Even if you don't address every prompt, you
can still get full marks on the question so
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just jump into the first one that you understand
and go for it.
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The next thing or the next tip I'm going to
give you is to actually every problem you
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see you should be thinking what is the problem.
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So, for example if they give you a scenario
where there's, you're the assistant coach
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on a soccer team and the head coach seems
to be texting one of the players a lot and
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you've seen her getting out of his car before
practice and you know the prompt's trying
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to lead you down to suspecting there's a romantic
relationship going on type of road.
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So, if you're trying to identify the problem
here the problem is this you know potential
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lack of professional boundaries by a soccer
coach.
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There's definitely a power differential between
the soccer coach and the player and you know
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he could be exploiting that power differential.
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Especially depending on the player's age and
things like that, assuming this is a university
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team, the player may be 18 but still, it could
be a little hazy there.
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So you identify that main problem and then
the next thing you want to do is identify
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how the problem affects all the surrounding
people.
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So I tell my students to almost envision a
ripple effect.
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I'm a very visual person so I like to think
in terms of actual visual mnemonics so at
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the middle of your ripple, you have the coach
and the player and the impact of this relationship
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on them and the player specifically and then
around that you have the team and you can
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include yourself in the team and further out
you have the university, its reputation and
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society and how they view the university and
how they view this type of relationship.
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So, as you consider how the problem is going
to affect the main players as well as everyone
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surrounding them, you need to go and gather
more information.
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So if I was faced with this scenario I would
want to know a couple things.
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First of all, what's the university's policy
on this type of relationship between a player
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and a coach.
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Is it banned, is it okay, you need to know
that in order to address the problem.
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Second of all, is there even a relationship
going on.
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Is she, you know maybe she lives in an inconvenient
area and he just picks her up, the texting
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is because he's driving her to and from practice.
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You need to talk to both individuals individually
and figure out what's going on and how they're
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feeling about it.
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After you've gathered your information, the
next step is to come up with a solution.
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So you need to come up with a solution that's
going to address the problem in the most ethically
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you know sound way that considers the viewpoints
of everyone you've identified and usually
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we'll do this in an if then format.
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So for this problem, I might say you know,
if there's a relationship going on and if
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I've determined that the university policy
is against the relationship, I'm going to
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talk to both individuals informed of the policy
and ask them that they discontinue the relationship
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immediately.
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If they don't, then I'll be forced to report
the relationship to the university.
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I might even ask that the coach reports himself
in order to protect other players against
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future liaisons or something along those lines
depending where you want to take it.
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If there's no university policy against it,
given these are two consenting adults it may
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be okay for them to have a relationship, but
in the context of the other players and the
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way this has potential to negatively impact
team dynamic, I would still talk to both individuals
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and strongly discourage them from pursuing
a romantic relationship or at least discourage
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them from pursuing it until after the season
is over.
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Given our goal as a team I think this would
be the most prudent course of action.
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So that way you're laying out the scenario
in if and then format and you're addressing
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the different possible permutations of the
question.
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The ability to do this shows you know high
level reasoning and the ability to professionally
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deal with problems.
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The important thing here as well that you
will note is that I'm not being judgemental,
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I'm not jumping to conclusions, I'm not taking
things at face value and just assuming that
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there's a romantic relationship going on.
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There may not be, there could be other things
that are happening in this scenario and it's
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important that you do that information gathering
step and figure out exactly what's going on
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before you decide on a course of action.
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So, assume you've done all of those things,
so how do you actually prepare for a CASPer.
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So like I said, the CASPer it's you get a
scenario and then you have 5 minutes to answer
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3 questions.
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So, it's really tight.
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It's really challenging even for me, I'm a
fast typer, I'm computer literate, it's really
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challenging.
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to get through all 3 of those questions.
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So the best thing you can do for yourself
is do a simulation CASPer.
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So practice in a test-like scenario.
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Almost like a game-day type of practice.
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You want to feel the pressure, you want to
know how am I going to navigate my mouse around
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the screen during the CASPer, some students
try using their left hand but really just
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go with what you're comfortable with.
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And how are you actually going to process
and get through these questions.
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Aside from the technical part, you need to
practice actually you know giving good content
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in your answers.
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So, the best way to do that is obviously practice,
use the format I just gave you but also to
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get professional feedback.
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So a lot of students they don't realize that
they're not addressing the global aspect or
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that their solutions have a lot of holes or
flaws in them.
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So professional feedback or feedback from
someone you really trust can be a great way
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to figure out whether you're answering the
questions appropriately.
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So, that's it for CASPer today, thank you
all for joining me, and I will see you again
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next week!
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