Comparing checklists and databases with physicians' ratings as measures of students' history and physical-examination skills

MacRae, H M; Vu, Nu Viet; Graham, B; Word-Sims, M; Colliver, J A; Robbs, R S

doi:10.1097/00001888-199504000-00015

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Comparing checklists and databases with physicians' ratings as measures of students' history and physical-examination skills

ContributorsMacRae, H M; Vu, Nu Viet; Graham, B; Word-Sims, M; Colliver, J A; Robbs, R S

Published inAcademic medicine, vol. 70, no. 4, p. 313-317

Publication date1995

Abstract

To compare two methods of rating students' performances on history and physical examination: (1) by using checklists completed by standardized patients (SPs) and databases completed by students, and (2) by using ratings of students by three physicians for each SP-student encounter.

Keywords

Clinical Clerkship
Databases
Factual
Educational Measurement/methods
Educational Status
Observer Variation
Physical Examination
Physicians
Reproducibility of Results

Affiliation entities

Faculté de médecine / Unité de développement et de recherche en éducation médicale

Research groups

Evaluation et monitoring des études prégraduées de médecine (332)

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MACRAE, H M et al. Comparing checklists and databases with physicians” ratings as measures of students” history and physical-examination skills. In: Academic medicine, 1995, vol. 70, n° 4, p. 313–317. doi: 10.1097/00001888-199504000-00015

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PID : unige:26090
DOI : 10.1097/00001888-199504000-00015
PMID : 7718064

Journal ISSN1040-2446

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Comparing checklists and databases with physicians' ratings as measures of students' history and physical-examination skills

To compare two methods of rating students' performances on history and physical examination: (1) by using checklists completed by standardized patients (SPs) and databases completed by students, and (2) by using ratings of students by three physicians for each SP-student encounter.

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