Assessing the impact of examinee and standardized patient ethnicity on test scores in a large-scale clinical skills examination: Gathering evidence for the consequential aspect of validity

Academic Medicine

Volumn 79, Issue 10 SUPPL., 2004, Pages

  De Champlain, André F ^a   Schoeneberger, Jason ^b   Boulet, John R ^b  

^a NATIONAL BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERTIFICATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPETENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNOLOGY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PATIENT; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SKILL; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 4644329082     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200410001-00004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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