Validating measures of third year medical students' use of interpreters by standardized patients and faculty observers

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2007, Pages 336-340

  Lie, Desiree ^a,c   Boker, John ^a   Bereknyei, Sylvia ^b   Ahearn, Susan ^a   Fesko, Charlotte ^a   Lenahan, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Department of Family Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Evaluation of skills; Interpreter use; Validation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; INTERPRETER SERVICE; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; OBSERVATION; PATIENT CARE; RATING SCALE; VALIDATION STUDY;

COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FACULTY, MEDICAL; HUMANS; PATIENT SIMULATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSLATING;

EID: 35448937704     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-007-0349-3     Document Type: Article

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