Should non-expert clinician examiners be used in objective structured assessment of communication skills among final year medical undergraduates?

Medical Teacher

Volumn 29, Issue 9-10, 2007, Pages 927-932

  Wong, Mee Lian ^a   Fones, Calvin S L ^a   Aw, Marion ^a   Tan, Chay Hoon ^a   Low, Poh Sim ^a   Amin, Zubair ^a   Wong, Poo Sing ^a   Goh, Poh Sun ^a   Wai, Chun Tao ^b   Ong, Benjamin ^b   Tambyah, Paul ^a   Koh, Dow Rhoon ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Dept Medicine Endocrinol Diabet   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMMUNICATION SKILL; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICAL STUDENT; PILOT STUDY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FACULTY, MEDICAL; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 37849052295     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01421590701601535     Document Type: Article

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