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Assessing the Non-Cognitive Domains
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Assessing the Patient Perspective
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Development of a Problem-based learning (PBL) approach to facilitate the acquisition of statistics knowledge by non-statistics undergraduates: a case study in medical education
(2011)Doctors need statistical skills. These skills matter for interpreting research data critically and for understanding and explaining statistical information to patients. However, historically statistical teaching and ... -
Assessing Doctors' Performance: judging what matters well
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Workplace-based assessment
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Improving the quality of outpatient clinic letters using the Sheffield Assessment Instrument for Letters (SAIL)
(2004)AIM: To improve the quality of outpatient letters used as communication between hospital and primary care doctors. METHODS: On 2 separate occasions, 15 unselected outpatient letters written by each of 7 hospital ... -
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 ... -
Children and their parents assessing the doctor-patient interaction: a rating system for doctors' communication skills
(2005)CONTEXT: Only a patient and his or her family can judge many of the most important aspects of the doctor-patient interaction. This study evaluates the feasibility and reliability of children and their families assessing ... -
The reliability and validity of a matrix to assess the completed reflective personal development plans of general practitioners
(2006)INTRODUCTION: We wished to determine whether assessors could make reliable and valid judgements about the quality of completed reflective personal development plans (PDPs) for the purpose of accrediting UK general practitioners ... -
'I'm pickin' up good regressions': the governance of generalisability analyses
(2007)CONTEXT: Investigators applying generalisability theory to educational research and evaluation have sometimes done so poorly. The main difficulties have related to: inadequate or non-random sampling of effects, dealing ... -
Can a district hospital assess its doctors for re-licensure?
(2008)CONTEXT: The Chief Medical Officer's recommendations on medical regulation in the UK suggest that National Health Service (NHS) trusts should assess their doctors and confirm whether they remain fit to practise ... -
Implementing workplace-based assessment across the medical specialties in the United Kingdom.
(2008)OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the reliability and feasibility of assessing the performance of medical specialist registrars (SpRs) using three methods: the mini-clinical evaluation exercise (mini-CEX), directly observed procedural ... -
Factors affecting the utility of the multiple mini-interview in selecting candidates for graduate-entry medical school
(2008)CONTEXT: We wished to determine which factors are important in ensuring interviewers are able to make reliable and valid decisions about the non-cognitive characteristics of candidates when selecting candidates for entry ... -
Specialty-specific multi-source feedback: assuring validity, informing training
(2008)CONTEXT: The white paper 'Trust, Assurance and Safety: the Regulation of Health Professionals in the 21st Century' proposes a single, generic multi-source feedback (MSF) instrument in the UK. Multi-source feedback was ... -
Implementing the undergraduate mini-CEX: a tailored approach at Southampton University
(2009)OBJECTIVES: The mini-clinical evaluation exercise (mini-CEX) is widely used in the UK to assess clinical competence, but there is little evidence regarding its implementation in the undergraduate setting. This study aimed ... -
Mini-clinical evaluation exercise in anaesthesia training
(2009)BACKGROUND: The Mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise (Mini-CEX) is a workplace-based assessment tool of potential value in anaesthesia to assess and improve clinical performance. Its reliability and positive educational impact ...
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