The expectation for graduate medical education programs to ensure that trainees are
progressing toward competence for unsupervised practice prompted requirements for a …

Background: In medical education, evaluation of clinical performance is based almost
universally on rating scales for defined aspects of performance and scores on examinations …

In any evaluation system of medical trainees there is an underlying set of assumptions about
what is to be evaluated (ie, which goals reflect the values of the system or institution), what …

The medical education community is reflecting increasingly on the role and nature of
research in the field. Useful sources of data to include in these reflections are a description …

Purpose To characterize policies of medical schools regarding struggling medical students:
those at risk of receiving a grade of less than pass because of problems with knowledge …

Purpose This study evaluated the fidelity of competence committee (CC) implementation in
Canadian postgraduate specialist training programs during the transition to competency …

INTRODUCTION High quality clinical training of medical students is of critical importance to
the delivery of optimal and safe patient care. This training is traditionally perceived as being …

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 …

Construct: Clinical skills are used in the care of patients, including reporting, diagnostic
reasoning, and decision-making skills. Written comprehensive new patient admission notes …

Objectives High-quality feedback on different dimensions of competence is important for
resident learning. Supervisors may need additional training and information to fulfil this …