When enough is enough: A conceptual basis for fair and defensible practice performance assessment

Medical Education

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 925-930

  Schuwirth, L W T ^a   Southgate, L ^b   Page, G G ^c   Paget, N S ^d   Lescop, J M J ^e   Lew, S R ^f   Wade, W B ^g   Baron Maldonado M ^h  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d ROYAL AUSTRALASIAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS   (Australia)

^e Direction de l'Amélioration de l'Exercice   (Canada)

^f ROYAL AUSTRALIAN COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS   (Australia)

^g ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clinical competence standards; Education, medical standards; Physicians, family standards; Quality of health care standards

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPETENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; REPRODUCIBILITY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 0036407149     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2923.2002.01313.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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