The face validity of a final professional clinical examination

Medical Education

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 465-473

  Tweed, Michael ^a   Cookson, John ^b  

^a GLENFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Education, medical, undergraduate, standards; Educational measurement; Faculty; Knowledge, attitudes, practice; Questionnaires; Reproducibility of results

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXAMINATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

ATTITUDE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; ENGLAND; FACULTY; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0035025082     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2923.2001.00895.x     Document Type: Article

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