A New Paradigm for Testing Clinical Competence in Chaplaincy Certification

Preliminary Evaluation of a Core Knowledge Test for Certification of Health Care Chaplains

This article describes the rationale, evolution, implementation, and evaluation of a process for testing core knowledge in health care chaplaincy certification. The process developed by the Spiritual Care Association uses online testing of evidence-based core knowledge developed with several expert advisory committees. The process seems to have acceptable validity, reliability, feasibility and usability and should be considered as a component to current certification processes for health care chaplains.