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 …

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

Excellent communication and interpersonal (C‐IP) skills are a universal requirement for a
well‐rounded emergency physician. This requirement for C‐IP skill excellence is a direct …

Background Communication skills are essential for physicians to practice Medicine.
Evidence for the validity and domain specificity of communication skills in physicians is …

Background: Competency-based models of medical education require reliable and valid
assessment of multiple physician roles. Aims: To develop and evaluate an objective …

Objectives: This study sought to design and validate a reliable instrument to assess the
quality of physician documentation. Design: Adjectives describing clinician attitudes about …

Background Assessing residents' understanding and application of the 6 intrinsic CanMEDS
roles (communicator, professional, manager, collaborator, health advocate, scholar) is …

Objective To identify inter-individual examiner factors associated with interrater reliability in
a summative communication OSCE in the 4th study year. Methods The OSCE consists of 4 …

Introduction: The purpose of the study was to adduce evidence for estimating the construct
validity of clinical competence measured through assessment instruments used for high …

This study employed a qualitative (grounded theory) method to achieve a better
understanding, conceptualization, and operationalization of how cultural competency …