Sharpening the eye of the OSCE with critical action analysis

Academic Medicine

Volumn 83, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 900-905

  Payne, Nancy J ^a   Bradley, Elizabeth B ^a   Heald, Evan B ^a   Maughan, Karen L ^b   Michaelsen, Veronica E ^a   Wang, Xin Qun ^a   Corbett, Eugene C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASEPSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONSENSUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL STUDENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL SECRECY; SKILL;

EID: 67849119054     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181850990     Document Type: Article

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