Assessing Clinical Reasoning in Pediatric Emergency Medicine: Validity Evidence for a Script Concordance Test

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 647-652

  Carrière, Benoit ^a   Gagnon, Robert ^b   Charlin, Bernard ^b   Downing, Steven ^c   Bordage, Georges ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PEDIATRICIAN; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RESIDENT; SCRIPT CONCORDANCE TEST; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDITY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; PEDIATRICS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 64549103068     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.07.024     Document Type: Article

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