Medical Education 2012: 46: 366–371 Context Major changes in thinking about validity have
occurred during the past century, shifting the focus in thinking from the validity of the test to …

Background Patient safety training of healthcare professionals is a new area of education.
Assessment of the pertinent competencies should be a part of this education. This review …

Clinical and counseling psychology programs currently lack adequate evidence-based
competency goals and training in suicide risk assessment. To begin to address this problem …

BACKGROUND: Assessment methods and theory continue to evolve in the general
education literature. Nowhere is this more evident than in the framework of validity methods …

Objective. To describe patient safety instruction in health professional curricula, including
medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and dentistry. Methods. A systematic review of the literature …

Quality improvement (QI) in health care involves activities ranging from enhancing personal
practice to reforming the larger health care system. The Accreditation Council for Graduate …

Objectives. To conduct a prospective evaluation for effectiveness of an error disclosure
assessment tool and video recordings to enhance student learning and metacognitive skills …

Background: Since 2001, residencies have struggled with teaching and assessing systems-
based practice (SBP). One major obstacle may be that the competency alone is not sufficient …

Objective. To implement and determine the effectiveness of an objective structured clinical
examination (OSCE) to assess fourth-year pharmacy students' skills in a clinical pharmacy …

Purpose: to analyze the first experience of administering Objective Structured Clinical
Examination (OSCE) for the students (studs) enrolled in the master's degree program …