ContextCurrent assessment formats for physicians and trainees reliably test core knowledge
and basic skills. However, they may underemphasize some important domains of …

Abstract The Competencies Conference: Future Directions in Education and Credentialing
in Professional Psychology was organized around eight competency‐focused work groups …

Objective: To assess the validity of standardised patients to measure the quality of
physicians' practice. Design: Validation study of standardised patients' assessments …

The assessment of clinical competence is becoming increasingly complex, patient cen tered,
and student driven. Traditionally, clini cal evaluation methods consisted primarily of faculty …

Background: Anesthesiologists and anesthesia residents are expected to acquire and
maintain skills to manage a wide range of acute intraoperative anesthetic events. The …

Methods A 12-station OSCE was administered to 84 students in each of the final (fourth-)
year medical classes of 1996 and 1997 at Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine. Four …

Recently, standardized patient assessments and objective structured clinical examinations
have been used for high-stakes certification and licensure decisions. In these testing …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Use of standardized patients for evaluating the clinical skills
of medical students and medical trainees is commonplace. This has encouraged the use of …

Although standardized patients have been employed for formative assessment for over 40
years, their use in high-stakes medical licensure examinations has been a relatively recent …

Abstract Background: The Residency Review Committee (RRC) for Psychiatry has
mandated that training programs “must demonstrate that residents have achieved …