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Doctors' consultations with children and their parents: a model of competencies, outcomes and confounding influences
(2005)
CONTEXT: The clinical consultation is an important aspect of the doctor's role. However, there is a particular shortage of methods for assessing its quality, and its complexity makes it a considerable assessment ...
Making sense of work-based assessment: ask the right questions, in the right way, about the right things, of the right people
(2012)
CONTEXT: Historically, assessments have often measured the measurable rather than the important. Over the last 30 years, however, we have witnessed a gradual shift of focus in medical education. We now attempt to teach and ...
Student doctors taking responsibility
(2011)
BACKGROUND: New guidelines require all undergraduate medical students to undertake at least one period of assistantship where they assume most of the responsibilities of a first-year graduate doctor (FY1 doctor in the UK) ...
Am I getting an accurate picture: a tool to assess clinical handover in remote settings?
(2017)
BACKGROUND: Good clinical handover is critical to safe medical care. Little research has investigated handover in rural settings. In a remote setting where nurses and medical students give telephone handover to an aeromedical ...
Direct observation of procedural skills (DOPS) assessment in diagnostic gastroscopy: nationwide evidence of validity and competency development during training
(2019)
BACKGROUND:
Validated competency assessment tools and the data supporting milestone development during gastroscopy training are lacking. We aimed to assess the validity of the formative direct observation of procedural ...
A model of professional self-identity formation in student doctors and dentists: a mixed method study.
(2015)
BACKGROUND: Professional self-identity [PSI] can be defined as the degree to which an individual identifies with his or her professional group. Several authors have called for a better understanding of the processes by ...
Improving the quality of written feedback using written feedback.
(2017)
BACKGROUND: Educational feedback is amongst the most powerful of all learning interventions.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS: (1) Can we measure the quality of written educational feedback with acceptable metrics? (2) Based on such ...
Addressing learner disorientation: give them a roadmap.
(2014)
This article describes the problem of disorientation in students as they become doctors. Disorientation arises because students have a poor or inaccurate understanding of what they are training to become. If they do not ...