Factors in faculty evaluation of medical students' performance

Medical Education

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 667-675

  Pulito, Andrew R ^a,b   Donnelly, Michael B ^b   Plymale, Margaret ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

*clinical clerkship; *students, medical; ANOVA; Clinical competence *standards; Educational measurement *methods; Faculty, medical *standards; Humans; Surgery *education

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; JOB PERFORMANCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; STEP WISE MULTIPLE REGRESSION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; COMMUNICATION; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FACULTY, MEDICAL; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; SURGERY;

EID: 34447134930     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2007.02787.x     Document Type: Article

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