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Green, Michael L.; Reddy, Siddharta G.; Holmboe, Eric – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2009
Introduction: Diplomates in the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program satisfy the self-evaluation of medical knowledge requirement by completing open-book multiple-choice exams. However, this method remains unlikely to affect practice change and often covers content areas not relevant to diplomates'…
Descriptors: Professional Continuing Education, Graduate Medical Education, Internal Medicine, Knowledge Level
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Bennett, Aurora J.; Arnold, Lesley M.; Welge, Jeffrey A. – Academic Psychiatry, 2006
Objective: Standardized patients are used in teaching medical students and evaluating their clinical skills during the psychiatric clerkship. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the addition of a Psychiatry Clinical Standardized Patient Examination (PCX) during the third-year clerkship improved students' performances on the…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Psychiatry, Patients, Examiners
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Ginsburg, A. David – Journal of Medical Education, 1985
In a study of medical student testing, scores on two subjective measures, after a second-year clinical skills course and after the clerkship, were compared with each other and with scores from an objective structured clinical examination, two multiple-choice examinations, and two oral examinations. Correlation between procedures was absent or…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Sauer, Justin; Hodges, Brian; Santhouse, Alastair; Blackwood, Nigel – Academic Psychiatry, 2005
Objective: In the United Kingdom (UK), an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) has replaced the individual patient assessment (IPA) for part 1 of the membership examination of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (MRCPsych). The authors' assessment of the OSCE was conducted. Method: Residents completed and evaluated an OSCE designed…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Evaluation Methods, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes