Purpose To summarize the tool characteristics, sources of validity evidence, methodological
quality, and reporting quality for studies of technology-enhanced simulation-based …

In order to construct and evaluate the validity argument for the Objective Structured
Assessment of Technical Skills (OSATS), based on Kane's framework, we conducted a …

Context Assessment is central to medical education and the validation of assessments is
vital to their use. Earlier validity frameworks suffer from a multiplicity of types of validity or …

Background Over the last three decades, various instruments were developed and
employed to assess medical professionalism, but their measurement properties have yet to …

Professionalism is a core competency of physicians. Clinical knowledge and skills (and their
maintenance and improvement), good communication skills, and sound understanding of …

Purpose Simulation is increasingly used within speech-language pathology education.
Research has primarily explored students' perceptions of learning in simulation. The aim of …

Purpose In-training evaluation reports (ITERs) constitute an integral component of medical
student and postgraduate physician trainee (resident) assessment. ITER narrative …

Assessment of clinical competence is complex and inference based. Trustworthy and
defensible assessment processes must have favourable evidence of validity, particularly …

Effectively developing professionalism requires a programmatic view on how medical ethics
and humanities should be incorporated into an educational continuum that begins in …

Abstract In July 2011, the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society sponsored a think
tank of experts in the field of medical professionalism to focus on interventions and …