Relationship between candidate communication ability and oral certification examination scores

Medical Education

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1227-1233

  Lunz, Mary E ^a,b   Bashook, Philip G ^c  

^a Measurement Research Associates Inc ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Psychometrics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

*Communication; *Decision making; *Education, medical, undergraduate; *Educational measurement; Anova; Review publication type

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CERTIFICATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICIAN; SCORING SYSTEM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; LICENSURE, MEDICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROBABILITY; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 56649114140     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2008.03231.x     Document Type: Article

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