Context Changes in medical training and culture have reduced the acceptability of the
traditional apprenticeship style training in medicine and influenced the growth of clinical …

Title. Objective structured clinical evaluation of clinical competence: an integrativereview.
Aim. This paper presents an integrative literature review conducted to describe the utility of …

The assessment of clinical competence is becoming increasingly complex, patient cen tered,
and student driven. Traditionally, clini cal evaluation methods consisted primarily of faculty …

Special Article Creating, Monitoring, and Improving a Psychiatry OSCE Page 1 Special Article
134 Academic Psychiatry, 26:3, Fall 2002 Creating, Monitoring, and Improving a Psychiatry …

Recently, standardized patient assessments and objective structured clinical examinations
have been used for high-stakes certification and licensure decisions. In these testing …

Background Healthcare curricula need summative assessments relevant to and
representative of clinical situations to best select and train learners. Simulation provides …

Background: The objective structured clinical examination (OSCE), originally designed with
experts assessing trainees' competence, is more frequently employed with an element of …

Conclusions While there are many psychometric challenges associated with the
assessments pertinent to the education of anesthesiologists, technological advances …

In this chapter, the authors consider assessments of clinical competence to be measures of
what doctors can do in controlled representations of professional practice, ie under …

A number of different methods of assessment based on observation, each known by an
increasing bewildering array of acronyms, have been used in the setting of clinical training …