Background: Feedback is an essential element of the educational process for clinical
trainees. Performance-based feedback enables good habits to be reinforced and faulty ones …

Introduction Mini Clinical Evaluation Exercise (Mini-CEX) and Direct Observation of
Procedural Skills (DOPS) are used as formative assessments worldwide. Since an up-to …

Introduction Direct observation of clinical skills is a key assessment strategy in competency-
based medical education. The guidelines presented in this paper synthesize the literature …

Communicating with patients is arguably the most common and important activity in medical
practice, but this activity receives relatively little emphasis in graduate medical education …

Objective: Practical skills are an essential part of physicians' daily routine. Nevertheless,
medical graduates' performance of basic skills is often below the expected level. This review …

Mock (simulated) interviews can be used as a safe context for trainee interviewers to learn
and practice questioning skills. When mock interviews are designed to reflect the body of …

Background: This BEME review aims at exploring, analyzing, and synthesizing the evidence
considering the utility of the mini-CEX for assessing undergraduate and postgraduate …

Problem: Medical students perceive honors grading during core clerkships as unfair and
inequitable, and negatively impacting their learning and wellbeing. Eliminating honors …

Assessing residents and clinical fellows is a high-stakes activity. Effective assessment is
important throughout training so that identified areas of strength and weakness can guide …

Background: Clinical reasoning is the cornerstone of medical practice. To date, there is no
established framework regarding clinical reasoning difficulties, how to identify them, and …