Towards a rational approach to student evaluation by examinations.

abstract：CONTEXT:A recent study has suggested that assessors judge performance comparatively rather than against fixed standards. Ratings assigned to borderline trainees were found to be biased by previously seen candidates' performances. We extended that programme of investigation by examining these effects across a range of p...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Yeates P,O'Neill P,Mann K,W Eva K

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the cueing effects inherent in conventional multiple choice questions (MCQs) present serious limitations, this format continues to dominate testing programmes. The present study was undertaken to estimate the effects of cueing when MCQs are used to test medical students, and to evaluate the reliability, valid...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Veloski JJ,Rabinowitz HK,Robeson MR

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since the introduction of problem-based learning (PBL) at McMaster University in 1969, many medical schools in the USA, Canada and Europe have included PBL in their curricula. In the past decade, many medical schools in Asia have also done so. However, so far no one has questioned whether the outcomes expect...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Khoo HE

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For many years student ratings have been used to assess the strengths and weaknesses of various courses and the teaching abilities of the instructors involved. Investigators have either supported or attacked the validity of this assessment procedure on the basis of the direction and degree of the relationship found be...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Mendelson MA,Canaday SD,Hardin JH

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Understanding how students resolve professional conflict is essential to teaching and evaluating professionalism. The purpose of this study was to refine an existing coding structure of rationalizations of student behaviour, and to further our understanding of students' reasoning strategies in the face of perce...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Ginsburg S,Regehr G,Lingard L

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study analyses and discusses recent changes in young Japanese doctors' career paths, in terms of their distribution in different types of facilities and specialties, following changes to the postgraduate clinical training system in 2004. METHODS:Data from the National Survey of Physicians, Dentists and...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Koike S,Ide H,Yasunaga H,Kodama T,Matsumoto S,Imamura T

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Avoidable breaches of patient confidentiality due to inadvertence or ignorance occur frequently. The aim of this study was to explore whether participants were able to identify violations of confidentiality and how serious these violations were. DESIGN:After a 2-hour theoretical education session, participa...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Elger BS,Harding TW

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical students are allocated little curriculum time for exposure to expert systems. ESTA, a computer model of an expert system, was developed to make best use of this time. The nature of the students' interaction with ESTA is described, and their reactions to the expert system concepts and the place of expert system...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： McWilliams AT

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the relationship between psychological constructs related to professional and research integrity and moral reasoning among medical students. METHODS:Medical students, 2nd-year (n = 208, 85.6% of 243 enrolled students), answered the moral reasoning test-defining issues test 2 (DIT2) and the Mac...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Hren D,Vujaklija A,Ivanisević R,Knezević J,Marusić M,Marusić A

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence that nurses fulfil the requirements of objective judgement better than doctors. Simulation of Initial Medical Problem-Solving (SIMP), a paper-and-pencil test for the assessment of medical problem-solving, consists of case histories, followed by an open-ended question. The scoring of open-ended questi...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： de Graaff E

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe a pilot course in personal and professional development, entitled 'Becoming a doctor: the first step' and our suggestions for what might be incorporated into future courses. SETTING AND CONTEXT:Leeds Medical School begins a new curriculum in September 1999 with a proportion of the first 3 years b...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Thistlethwaite JE,Green PD,Heywood P,Storr E

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Progress tests, in which learners are repeatedly assessed on equivalent content at different times in their training and provided with feedback, would seem to lend themselves well to a competency-based framework, which requires more frequent formative assessments. The objective structured clinical examination (...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Pugh D,Bhanji F,Cole G,Dupre J,Hatala R,Humphrey-Murto S,Touchie C,Wood TJ

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Practice inevitably narrows over time. Therefore, testing of established doctors requires that their assessment be tailored to a far narrower practice than is appropriate for testing of new doctors who have not yet differentiated. In this paper, we address the conceptual challenges of tailoring physician assessment to...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Melnick DE,Asch DA,Blackmore DE,Klass DJ,Norcini JJ

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of incorporating humanities teaching into medical education is to encourage students to develop into more sensitive and caring doctors who communicate well with their patients and colleagues. CONTENT:A unique 4th year student elective at the Medical College of Wisconsin incorporates reflective a...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Anderson R,Schiedermayer D

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a new educational scheme introduced in Malta in 1978, university students spend half of the academic year studying and the other half as workers in various departments. During their work phase, students designed and made working models as teaching aids for the study of physiology. The value of these models was asse...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Abu-Sitta SA,Shalaby MA,Hajek J

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Authentic early experience (AEE) describes experiences provided to new medical students to undertake 'human contact' to enhance learning. Although the concept of AEE is not new, and was commonplace prior to the Flexner Report of 1910, little is known about how or why meaning and knowledge are constructed throug...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Yardley S,Brosnan C,Richardson J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports on the generalizability of different skills assessed in the oral certification examinations in Internal Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Assessments from the 1992 examination were examined prospectively to determine (i) inter-rater reliability, (ii) correlation fro...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Turnbull J,Danoff D,Norman G

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:The responsibility to determine just who is competent to practice medicine, and at what standard, is great. Whilst there is still a period available for potential remediation, examinations at the completion of year three of the four-year Graduate Entry Medical Programme (GEMP) at Flinders University of South Au...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Searle J

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compared the communication skills of randomly chosen first- and final-year medical students. The intention was to follow up previous research, conducted over 10 years ago, into the effects of the medical curriculum on communication skills. It was hypothesized that there would be little improvement in such s...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Davis H,Nicholaou T

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Increasing numbers of educational institutions in the medical field choose to replace their conventional admissions interviews with a multiple mini-interview (MMI) format because the latter has superior reliability values and reduces interviewer bias. As the MMI format can be adapted to the conditions of eac...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Knorr M,Hissbach J

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Due to the high volume and acuity of mental health issues presented by graduate and professional students nationwide, this study explored specific mental health needs in students in order to identify credible areas for intervention. METHODS:An assessment tool was created for this project, which identified sati...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Stecker T

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper compares the opportunities for flexible (part-time) specialist training in the UK and elsewhere in the EU in the overall context of the rising numbers of women doctors across Europe. Few other EU countries appear to provide the same opportunities for flexible training as the UK, despite high percentages of ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Maingay J,Goldberg I

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In 1996 the University of Liverpool introduced an integrated problem-based learning (PBL) medical curriculum incorporating the recommendations of Tomorrow's Doctors. This paper investigates whether the PRHO (pre-registration house officer) educational supervisors who supervise Liverpool graduates believe t...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Watmough S,Taylor D,Garden A

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many factors play a part in determining the performance of students in examinations, but the extent to which students use library facilities does not appear to have been recently considered as a factor, in medicine or in any other academic subject. In this study, the number of books borrowed from the library by underg...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Brazier H,Conroy RM

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Student assessment in community settings presents problems for medical teachers, e.g., difficulties in assessing the contribution of individual members to group work, and lack of test standardization due to varying field conditions. The Faculty of Medicine, University of Gezira, Sudan is a community-oriented, communit...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Magzoub ME,Schmidt HG,Abdel-Hameed AA,Dolmans D,Mustafa SE

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A postal questionnaire was distributed to all students who had discontinued, for any reason, their studies at Aberdeen Medical School. Opinions were sought about their experiences while there, as well as their reactions to the discontinuation therefrom. Claiming that learning to cope with stress was an essential aspe...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Alexander DA,Haldane JD

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews some of the problems confronting medical education in Spain and some of the steps which have been taken to improve the current situation which is of serious concern to the Government, the Medical Colleges, the University, and the community generally. ...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Vilardell F

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical practice and medical education are undergoing revolutionary changes all over the world. Even though the denominators of change are usually viewed at national and institutional levels, global trends also play an important role, and international co-operation is needed now, more than ever. Thailand with its rapi...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Suwanwela C

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) skills tend to degrade over time. There is mounting evidence that high-fidelity simulation (HFS) is advantageous to teaching ACLS. The aspects of HFS that enhance learning are not entirely clear, but the anxiety generated by a scenario may enhance retention through well-e...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： Demaria S Jr,Bryson EO,Mooney TJ,Silverstein JH,Reich DL,Bodian C,Levine AI

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:It is important to know how patients are affected by becoming opportunistically involved in medical student education. In previous studies, researchers rather than patients set the research agenda and expert patients or people well known to teachers were more often involved than ordinary people. OBJECTIVES:Thi...

journal_title：Medical education

authors： McLachlan E,King N,Wenger E,Dornan T

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00