Achieving acceptable reliability in oral examinations: An analysis of the Royal College of General Practitioners membership examination's oral component

Medical Education

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 126-131

  Wass, Val ^a   Wakeford, Richard ^b   Neighbour, Roger ^c   Van Der Vleuten, Cees ^d  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS   (United Kingdom)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

*Decision making; *Educational measurement; Clinical competence *standards; Education, Medical, undergraduate *standards methods; England; Reproducibility of results; Verbal behaviour

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ERROR; EXAMINATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIETY; STANDARD; TIME;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; ENGLAND; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH;

EID: 0037301019     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2923.2003.01417.x     Document Type: Article

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