Further challenges in measuring communication skills: Accounting for actor effects in standardised patient assessments

Medical Education

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 662-668

  Lurie, Stephen J ^a,b   Mooney, Christopher J ^a   Nofziger, Anne C ^a   Meldrum, Sean C ^a   Epstein, Ronald M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b Box 601 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

*communication; *patient standardisation; Clinical competence *standards; Education, dental *methods; Education, medical, undergraduate *methods; Humans; New York; Patient satisfaction; Physician patient relations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDARDIZATION;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EDUCATION, DENTAL; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; HUMANS; NEW YORK; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT SIMULATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 44949147917     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2008.03080.x     Document Type: Article

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