The General Medical Council's performance procedures: The development and implementation of tests of competence with examples from general practice

Medical Education

Volumn 35, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2001, Pages 20-28

  Southgate, Lesley ^a   Campbell, Malcolm ^b   Cox, Jim ^c   Foulkes, John ^d   Jolly, Brian ^e   McCrorie, Peter ^f   Tombleson, Philip ^g  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS   (United Kingdom)

^c General Medical Council   (United Kingdom)

^d Cockayne Hatley Testing Consultancy ^*  (United States)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g Performance Assessment Specialist Working Group in General Practice

Author keywords

Clinical competence; Clinical performance; General practice; Multiple choice tests; OSCE; Peer review; Professionalism; Simulated surgery; Standard setting; Standardized patients

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NORMAL HUMAN; PEER REVIEW; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICIAN; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SKILL; ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; LICENSING; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICINE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LICENSURE, MEDICAL; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 0035669252     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2923.2001.00003.x     Document Type: Article

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