Assessing the assessment: Are senior summative OSCEs measuring advanced knowledge, skills, and attitudes?

Academic Medicine

Volumn 83, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1191-1195

  White, Casey B ^a   Ross, Paula T ^a   Haftel, Hilary M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SKILL; TAXONOMY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; HUMAN; LICENSING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LICENSURE, MEDICAL; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 60849084174     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31818c6f6a     Document Type: Article

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