Background Effective communication skills and professionalism are critical for physicians in
order to provide optimum care and achieve better health outcomes. The aims of this study …

Simulation is a promising method for improving clinician performance, enhancing team
training, increasing patient safety, and preventing errors. Training scenarios to enrich …

Context Competency‐based assessment of learners may benefit from a more holistic,
inclusive, approach for determining readiness for unsupervised practice. However, despite …

Background Professionalism and communication skills constitute important components of
the integral formation of physicians which has repercussion on the quality of health care and …

Objective: To investigate the utility of the GMC patient and colleague questionnaires in
assessing the professional performance of a large sample of UK doctors. Design: Cross …

Methods: The multirater communication skills instrument was used to assess Pediatric and
Neonatal Intensive Care fellows after participation in seven simulated family meetings …

Context Achieving competence in 'practice‐based learning'implies that doctors can
accurately self‐assess their clinical skills to identify behaviours that need improvement. This …

Assessment of competency in traditional graduate medical education has been based on
observation of clinical care and classroom teaching. In anesthesiology, this has been …

Background Increased attention on collaboration and teamwork competency development in
medical education has raised the need for valid and reliable approaches to the assessment …

Using the Communication Assessment Tool in Family Medicine Residency Programs Page 1
567 Vol. 42, No. 8 Original Article The Communication Assessment Tool (CAT), developed by …