Are Interpersonal Skills Ratings Influenced by Gender in A Clinical Skills Assessment Using Standardized Patients?

Advances in Health Sciences Education

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 231-241

  Chambers, Kateri A ^a   Boulet, John R ^a   Furman, Gail E ^b  

^a Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Clinical skills assessment; Gender; Interpersonal skills; Standardized patients

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FOREIGN WORKER; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; FOREIGN MEDICAL GRADUATES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SEX FACTORS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0347713613     PISSN: 13824996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012606419116     Document Type: Article

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