Introduction:

Enade is a cognitive test that evaluates the performance of undergraduate programs through its students. Revalida is a specific exam for graduates from foreign medicine programs. Despite having different functions, the two tests assess the same target audience and can be considered analogous.

Objective:

The objective was to identify and compare the contents of ENADE and REVALIDA.

Methods:

a descriptive study that compared the contents of ENADE 2013 and 2016 and REVALIDA 2015 and 2016 with reference to the contents of the REVALIDA Curriculum Correspondence Matrix (RCCM). In the first stage of the study, two doctors, professors of Medicine, independently analyzed the items of the four tests and listed the contents covered in the statements and alternatives. The results were subsequently consolidated. The content analysis of the exams was carried out using frequency distribution of the concentration areas and the themes according to the test and comparison between the areas of concentration and themes that coincided in each test.

Results:

considering the 46 areas of concentration of the RCCM, 10 areas were not covered in ENADE 2013, six in Enade 2016 and two in Revalida 2015. Revalida 2016 covered all areas. Regarding the 749 specific themes of the RCCM, the two editions of Enade, together, addressed 241 (32.2%) of them, whereas the two editions of Revalida addressed 468 (62.5%) themes. Analysis of the topics covered showed that of the 241 of Enade, 45 were common to both editions, while 247 of a total of 468 were addressed in both editions of Revalida. When considering repetition of the same topic in each edition of each exam, it was found that around 80.0% of the topics were considered only once in the two editions of ENADE compared to 50.0% in the editions of Revalida.

Conclusion:

the results indicate that ENADE has a lower content validity than Revalida. There was also a concentration in specific groups of themes, and repetition of a small group of themes in the analyzed editions of ENADE, which also reduces the reliability of the exam.

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