Reproducibility of clinical performance assessment in practice using incognito standardized patients

Medical Education

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 827-832

  Gorter, Simone ^a   Rethans, Jan Joost ^b   Van Der Heijde, Désirée ^a   Scherpbier, Albert ^b   Houben, Harry ^c   Van Der Vleuten, Cees ^b   Van Der Linden, Sjef ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Sittard Geleen Heerlen   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clinical competence *standards; Education, medical, postgraduate *methods; Educational assessment; Netherlands; Reproducibility of results; Rheumatology standards

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOLOGY; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDARDIZATION; THEORY; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT SIMULATION; RHEUMATOLOGY;

EID: 0036398575     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2923.2002.01296.x     Document Type: Article

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