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Evaluating the Clinical Skills of Foreign Medical School Graduates Participating in an Internship Preparation Program.
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Rothman, Arthur I. – Academic Medicine, 1990
Comparisons are made of the results of administering the same Objective Structured Clinical Examination-type clinical skills tests to two cohorts of the Ontario Pre-Internship Program. A description is provided of entry-exit comparisons between the test results of the two cohorts. (GLR)
Descriptors: Foreign Medical Graduates, Higher Education, Internship Programs, Medical Education
Performance-Based Assessment of Clinical Ethics Using an Objective Structured Clinical Examination.
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Singer, Peter A.; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1996
Final-year Ontario medical students (n=88) took a 4-station objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) using standardized patients and involving decisions to forgo life-sustaining treatment. Performance was scored on a checklist of behaviors unique to each case. Results indicated that because of low reliability, the OSCE is not a feasible…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Competency Based Education, Ethics, Foreign Countries
Introducing Progress Testing in McMaster University's Problem-Based Medical Curriculum: Psychometric Properties and Effect on Learning.
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Blake, Jennifer M.; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1996
The Personal Progress Index, designed to assess students' knowledge at regular intervals, is administered at the McMaster University (Ontario) Faculty of Health Sciences three times annually. Feedback is provided to students, and accumulated student performance is determined for summative evaluation. Results over 4 classes (n=400) show it to be…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Formative Evaluation