Purpose Assessing professionalism is hampered by varying definitions and these
definitions' lack of a clear breakdown of the elements of professionalism into aspects that …

Objectives: There are currently no guidelines on the most effective ways of supporting
medical students to develop high standards of medical professionalism. The aim of this …

Background Simulation-based medical education enables knowledge, skills and attitudes to
be acquired for all healthcare professionals in a safe, educationally orientated and efficient …

Abstract The University of Texas System established the Transformation in Medical
Education (TIME) initiative to reconfigure and shorten medical education from college …

Background Measurement errors are a limitation of using rater-based assessments that are
commonly attributed to rater errors. Solutions targeting rater subjectivity have been largely …

When studying the patient perspective on communication, some studies rely on analogue
patients (patients and healthy subjects) who rate videotaped medical consultations while …

Professionalism is a broad competency needed by dentists to act effectively and efficiently
and is seen as a central part of both undergraduate and postgraduate curricula. Assessment …

This article, the eighth in the To the Point Series prepared by the Association of Professors of
Gynecology and Obstetrics Undergraduate Medical Education Committee, discusses the …

Context: Narrative feedback documented in performance evaluations by the teacher, ie the
clinical supervisor, is generally accepted to be essential for workplace learning. Many …

Whenever multiple observers provide ratings, even of the same performance, inter-rater
variation is prevalent. The resulting 'idiosyncratic rater variance'is considered to be unusable …