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Medicine as a performing art: a worthy metaphor
(Blackwell Science Ltd, 2003-10)
Despite numerous calls for reform over several decades, medical educators have been unable to address many significant challenges. Potentially, employing new metaphors and looking at the teaching and learning of medicine ...
Setting school-level outcome standards
(Blackwell Science Ltd, 2006-02)
To establish international standards for medical schools, an appropriate panel of experts must decide on performance standards. A pilot test of such standards was set in the context of a multidimensional (multiple-choice ...
Conceptualising and classifying validity evidence for simulation
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2009-11)
Measuring Self-assessment: Current State of the Art
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-03)
The competent physician pursues lifelong learning through the recognition of deficiencies and the formulation of appropriate learning goals. Despite the accepted theoretical value of self-assessment, studies have consistently ...
The importance of race in medical student performance of an AIDS risk assessment interview with simulated patients
(Blackwell Science Ltd, 2000-03)
The accountability of clinical education: its definition and assessment
(Blackwell Science Ltd, 2000-10-05)
The nature of qualitative comments in evaluating professionalism
(Blackwell Science Ltd, 2005-08)
We analysed written comments on clerkship evaluation forms to determine if they furthered our understanding of students' professional behaviour. Methods We transcribed all written comments related to professional behaviour ...
Conditional reliability of admissions interview ratings: extreme ratings are the most informative
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007-01)
Admissions interviews are unreliable and have poor predictive validity, yet are the sole measures of non-cognitive skills used by most medical school admissions departments. The low reliability may be due in part to variation ...