Assessing health professionals

Medical Education

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 800-804

  Crossley, Jim ^a   Humphris, Gerry ^b   Jolly, Brian ^c  

^a SHEFFIELD CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Educational measurement; England; Professional competence standards; Reproducibility of results

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPETENCE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; JOB PERFORMANCE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUALITY CONTROL; SAMPLE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; ENGLAND; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0036398569     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2923.2002.01294.x     Document Type: Article

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