The relationship between experience with standardized patient examinations and subsequent standardized patient examination performance: A potential problem with standardized patient exam validity

Evaluation and the Health Professions

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 64-74

  Talente, Gregg ^a   Haist, Steven A ^b   Wilson, John F ^b  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Medical education; Practice effect; Standardized patients; Test wiseness; Testing

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; TEACHING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT SIMULATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33846697023     PISSN: 01632787     EISSN: 15523918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163278706297334     Document Type: Article

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