Validity is essential to ensuring that healthcare assessment results are meaningful, credible, and fit for purpose, yet assessment programs must often balance this goal against real-world constraints. In this panel, experts from education, credentialing, and workforce settings will discuss how they make decisions about validity evidence, navigate trade-offs, and determine what is “good enough” when resources are limited. Attendees will leave with practical strategies for strengthening the validity, credibility, and defensibility of their assessment programs.