Assessing Students – Clinical Competence Versus Performance
- Author:
John Ruedy
- Publication Type:Review
- Keywords:
assessment, evaluation, clinical competence, performance, multi-source feedback
- From:International e-Journal of Science, Medicine and Education
2007;1(1):15-21
- CountryMalaysia
- Language:English
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Abstract:
The recent elaboration of the range of physician
competencies upon which the quality of health care is
dependent has fostered the development of a variety of
methods of assessing medical student competencies and
performance. Such assessments are essential in
providing feedback to students to guide their learning
and to faculty on the success of the curriculum in
achieving competency outcomes. In addition they
provide evidence that students have achieved minimum
requirements for progressing. Well-designed Observed
Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs), Mini-
Clinical Examinations (Mini-CEXs) and some forms of
Multi-Source Feedback (MSF) can meet acceptable
standards of validity and reliability and are feasible.
Competency assessments are limited in predicting how
a student will actually act in the work situation
particularly in humanistic skills. More emphasis needs
to be placed on student performance, in such
competencies as communication and professionalism, in
a variety of settings by a number of observers.
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