I'll never play professional football and other fallacies of self-assessment

Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 14-19

  Eva, Kevin W ^a   Regehr, Glenn ^b,c,d  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Health Professions Education Research   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d Wilson Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Continuing education; Reflection; Self assessment; Self directed assessment seeking; Self monitoring; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONTINUING EDUCATION; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL PROFESSION; SELF EVALUATION;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, CONTINUING; HEALTH OCCUPATIONS; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF-EVALUATION PROGRAMS;

EID: 42549088988     PISSN: 08941912     EISSN: 1554558X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chp.150     Document Type: Article

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