Making self-assessment more effective

Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 20-24

  Galbraith, Robert M ^a   Hawkins, Richard E ^a   Holmboe, Eric S ^b  

^a NATIONAL BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS   (United States)

^b AMERICAN BOARD OF INTERNAL MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Continuing medical education; External validation; Formative; High and low stakes; Practice profile; Self assessment; Self improvement; Summative

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; SELF EVALUATION;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; HUMANS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 42549095942     PISSN: 08941912     EISSN: 1554558X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chp.151     Document Type: Article

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