Competency-based medical education (CBME), by definition, necessitates a robust and
multifaceted assessment system. Assessment and the judgments or evaluations that arise …

Systematic Review of Grading Practice: Is there evidence of grade inflation? This paper
describes the outcomes of a systematic review of literature pertaining to the grading of …

This review explores the practical use of the (Observer)—Reporter—Interpreter—Manager—
Expert ((O) RIME) model in the assessment of clinical reasoning skills and for the potential to …

Objective: To determine whether exposure to an immersive virtual reality curriculum on
pediatric respiratory distress improves medical students' recognition of impending …

Background: Grade inflation is a growing concern, but the degree to which it continues to
exist in 3rd-year internal medicine (IM) clerkships is unknown. Purpose: The authors sought …

Background Comments on residents' in-training evaluation reports (ITERs) may be more
useful than scores in identifying trainees in difficulty. However, little is known about the …

Context Although concern has been raised about the value of clinical evaluation reports for
discriminating among trainees, there have been few efforts to formalise the dimensions and …

Background: Educators now use reported observations when assessing trainees'
performance. Unfortunately, they have little information about how to design and implement …

Background Face-to-face formal evaluation sessions between clerkship directors and faculty
can facilitate the collection of trainee performance data and provide frame-of-reference …

Purpose The ability of medical schools to accurately and reliably assess medical student
clinical performance is paramount. The RIME (reporter–interpreter–manager–educator) …